Never heard of it before. If it's only a fresh install, it might be worth starting from scratch with the 2.0.5 core files.

It's installed over at www.tswn.com, and I found the module on a french site called "Liens" which can be gotten here

Thanks mvandam. I'm definately considering upgrading XOOPS to 2.0.5 at the same time as I upgrade my server. Thing that makes me a little nervous with that is that I've made a few changes here and there along the way which I don't want to loose. I'll just have to take care with my planning phase.

From some comments made by other people that I've read I'm starting to wonder if a 1.2GHz Athlon is going to be sufficient for maximizing my sites speed. I might just have to do a bit of server task redelegation so that once I do the upgrade it only servers purely Internet related tasks.

I'd say anything is possible, so I don't think this would be a problem, although I don't know the specifics of how. I use the PP-news newsletter module which lets the user specify wether they want plain text or HTML e-mails. As a rule of thumb I'd only send plain text e-mails as you can be sure that the end users will be able to read it as some users don't like HTML in e-mails.

Hi TL,

Thanks for the feedback. My Server spec basics are;

PIII550
1GB SDRAM
2 x 10GB ATA-66 HDD's in software RAID 1


From this you can see the only real lacking component is the CPU. I have a 1.2Ghz AMD Athlon and motherboard ready to upgrade my server with which will bring significant performance gains. However, as this upgrade will mean an OS reinstall, I'll need to do a bit of planning to ensure I don't screw things up, plus it'll also minimise downtime.

I have created a hack which is in the footer of my webpage which says "page loaded in X seconds" which displays the MySQL query time. This is ususally between 1.2 and 1.5 seconds which I think idealy is about a second too long.

Hi All,

I've been running my site for a few weeks now, and I have been having some significant issues with site loading times, particulary International users as I host my site here in Australia on my 512k/512k SDSL connection.

I've just made some pretty major changes to my server configuration which I'm hoping will make for some more respectable loading times. These changes Include;

- Port80 Software HTTPZip. I've installed this software in the hope that it'll enable much more efficient use of my available bandwidth, and quite frankly I've been very impressed with the stats so far. It is only a hour or so since I set it going, but already it's reporting a bandwidth percentage saving of nearly 65%.

- Moving images to ISP server. According to Google the main page of my site contains about 60k worth of content, not counting about 39k of images as well. I have moved all images I can without major recoding work to the free webspace provided by my ISP. This will work not only at decreasing load times as my ISP's servers will be much quicker than mine, but also drastically reduces the amount of image content transfered from my site upon each visit from around 39k to under 2k.

I'd really appreciate it if you could take the time to load my site, and report back with aproximately how many seconds it took to load. I'd also appreciate info on your location and Internet connection type too. Thanks .

IT Headquarters

Already tried resyncing the forums, but thanks for the suggestion Hostile .

Hi All,

I'm thinking of modifying the XOOPS Banner management so that there are two distinct types of banners with appropriate smarty codes. This is so that you can separate horizontal and vertically aligned banners for display on your site. I.e horizontal (such as default XOOPS banners) in the headerbar and center column, and vertical banners in the left and right columns. I know you can just use Phpadsnew to do all this, but as good as it is, I'm never going to want/need serious banner management on my site, so I thought a sligt modification of the existing banner management would do the trick.

At first I was just going to run a second instance of the existing banners section, but I think that will be a bit too hacky as it will mean having two of everything (clients, stats, etc...) where I only want two types of banners.

At the moment I'm only exploring the idea, and was windering if anyone had any tips/suggestions/ideas for going about this?

If your mail server supports IMAP you could use the squirrelmail mod.

Good idea Ackbarr, I have a look at my logfiles tonight. I can't imagine the view count being accurate, but I suppose it could happen if the user left the computer with a browser window open and had a stuck F5 key or something.