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Xman04
Re: Required to login twice.....why????
  • 2004/10/4 19:26

  • Xman04

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Interestingly, when I set a module to open with my start page, the login problem disappears. The other day, I set the "Module for your start page" setting to "None" which is when the problem started.

I was just going to have custom blocks on the start page, but I'm having that login problem when I do that.

The URL I type in is the main directory where my XOOPS site is installed. For example, www.mywebsite.com/community.

When I add the news module to the start page, typing in the above URL leads to www.mywebsite.com/community/modules/news.

I looked in the xoops_version.php, but could not find any setting for XOOPS_URL (which maybe is the problem?). I don't know where to add this.

I also ran a repair operation on the entire XOOPS database (with the repair utility of my host), which repaired each table (including the xoops_session db table). I'm new to MySQL, so I'm not sure if repairing a table is the same as restoring a table.

Anyway, I've temporarily resolved the problem by adding a module to the start page. Although, I really don't want a module on the start page (so this is still a problem for me).

Dave



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Xman04
Required to login twice.....why????
  • 2004/10/4 17:54

  • Xman04

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  • Since: 2004/7/12


I'm having this strange problem logging into my site. When I first try to login, everything first looks normal. XOOPS indicates that I've successfully logged in, but then takes me back to the login page (as if I have not logged in). When I make a second attempt to login, everything works normally and I'm successfully logged in (and not taken back to the login page). Thus, I need to login twice to successfully be logged in.

The strange thing is that if I logout and try to login again, this problem does not occur (as long as I don't close the IE browser). However, the problem occurs again if I logout, close the IE browser, reopen the IE browser, and then try to login again. I did not have this problem when I first created my XOOPS site. However, it began a few days ago. The only thing I've changed is the theme I'm using, some of the CSS in the Style.css sheet, the banners, and activated some of the core modules. I've not changed any of the PHP. Thus, I don't know what could be causing this.

Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it?

Dave



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Xman04
Re: Blocks overlap in old browsers (depending on theme)
  • 2004/10/4 17:41

  • Xman04

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  • Since: 2004/7/12


Hi rocket98,

Thanks for the tips. I was able to successfully change most of color settings with the defs you mentioned. However, I could not locate the "outer" def in the style.css for the theme I'm using. It is referenced in the rendered page's source code, but I don't see it in the css for some reason.

Does the "outer" def reference the colors for the "category title" for each category of forums? I'm asking this, since that is the only color that has not changed (after changing the color settings for: head, even, odd, tr.even td, tr.odd td). Thus, I'm assuming that "outer" is not used for that particular theme (maybe something else is referenced for the forum category background colors).

Dave



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Xman04
Re: Blocks overlap in old browsers (depending on theme)
  • 2004/10/4 17:26

  • Xman04

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  • Since: 2004/7/12


Hi tjnemez,

I'm sure that the old browser issues will become even less of an issue over time (as IE 5 and 5.5 gradually become extinct). It seems that Internet Explorer itself may be become less popular over time, due to security issues and competitive browsers such as Opera and Firefox. Although, only time will tell regarding that.

As you suggested, I'm tempted to just recommend that visitors update their IE to 6.0 (which will give me more flexibility with themes). However, I worry about the small percentage of people who don't upgrade too often, and who will be turned away if my site looks like a mess (because of an IE issue).

Where would I find that css fix?

Dave



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Xman04
Blocks overlap in old browsers (depending on theme)
  • 2004/9/28 22:21

  • Xman04

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  • Since: 2004/7/12


Hi,

When I use the default XOOPS theme, the blocks overlap in older versions of IE (prior to 6.0). From what I've read, this is some kind of CSS problem.

I replaced the default theme with the 7dana-jane theme, and this stopped the overlapping. However, there are a couple of changes that I want to make to the 7dana-jane theme.

Here they are:

1) Expand the width of the entire web page, so that the web page fills the entire browser window. Since I have a lot of content in the left, center, and right columns, the narrow width of the 7dana-jane theme is kind of restrictive. Is there any way to expand the page width, without running into the overlap problems again? If so, where do I change this and in what way?

2) I want to use slightly darker colors for the forum background, similar to the default XOOPS theme forum colors. Where do I change these colors? Also, is there any way to replace the forum 7dana-jane forum theme colors with the default XOOPS forum theme colors, without changing the rest of the site's theme?

One other question. Are there more themes out there that avoid the block overlapping problem with old browsers? So far, 7dana-jane themes seem to be the only themes that avoid this issue. However, I would like to provide more options for themes.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Dave



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Xman04
Re: Blocks Administration Bug
  • 2004/9/28 21:56

  • Xman04

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  • Since: 2004/7/12


Thank you ackbarr. That did the trick!

Dave



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Xman04
Blocks Administration Bug
  • 2004/9/25 0:53

  • Xman04

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  • Posts: 180

  • Since: 2004/7/12


Hi,

I'm having a problem with the Blocks Administration feature. I've been attempting to make some blocks visible for anonymous users (prior to login), and invisible after login (and vice versa). However, anytime I change the visible setting for the registered users, the setting automatically changes for the anonymous users too. The same issue happens with the webmasters group too. In other words, XOOPS is not allowing me to make a block visible for one group of users and invisible for another group. They both take on the same setting anytime I change one. I didn't have this problem with the earlier version, but it is a problem with the recent upgrade.

Could this be a database corruption, PHP program bug, or could I be doing something wrong?

Thanks for any help,
Dave



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Xman04
How do I center a page within a theme?
  • 2004/7/20 22:16

  • Xman04

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  • Posts: 180

  • Since: 2004/7/12


Hi,

I recently installed the 7dana-jane theme, and I like most of the layout. However, the web page is "visually" not centered, with lots of empty blue space to the right. I'm assuming that a top level table is not centered against the background of the remainder of the page. I want to visually center the page, because I think it looks better that way.

I tried changing the alignment to "center" within one of the HTML tables I came across, but this did nothing. I'm not sure where to change this, since there are so many files for the theme. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Here is a link to a screen shot sample of the theme:

7dana-Jane Theme Screen Shot

You can see how the page appears to the left, with empty space on the right.

Thank you,
Dave



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Xman04
Topic view statistics do not update (Forum module)
  • 2004/7/12 16:15

  • Xman04

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 180

  • Since: 2004/7/12


Hi,

The forum column which displays the number of views of a topic is not updating. It remains on 1 view, no matter how many times I view it. I've viewed it with several different user names, but it still does not update.

How do I fix this? Any help would be appreciated.

Dave




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