D'OH! Sometimes I just have to look in the mirror and say... Ya Big Dummie!

Thanks Herko.

So, just to make sure I don't pull another Homer...

I would just add the following to my robots.txt file:

Disallow: /modules/piCal

Is that correct?

Thanks again.

I've had 58,718 on my calendar module in the past 10 days! And there's nothing even posted.

Aparently the search spider has spidered through a ton of calendar entries. I did a site:http://citcs.pkbcs.com search on Google to see what it came up with. 21 pages! All but about 1 of those pages is my calendar.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem? I'd really like to have this calendar module for the Fall Semester, but Google has chewed up almost of 4GB of bandwidth in 10 days.

I haven't had a chance to read up on CSS 3. I'll have to research it.

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Reasons I prefer CSS over tables:
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Speed
Accessibility
Simplified design
Design Potential
Consistancy

That's why I upgrade the software on every PC I touch and do my best to educate every client so that they are at least reasonably comfortable with using their machine. What I was referring to is the older and/or uneducated people who do not have the benefit of people like us to educate them.

Also, there are people who refuse to learn. Regardless of your efforts to educate them, there are those who will continue in their ignorant bliss. Consequently, when their ignorance creates a problem, you have to fix it again, and tell them again, and the cycle continues....

I agree with you. However, when dealing with people, you do what you can, where you can, and make accommodations for the rest. If it were any different, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Therefore, I choose to code primarily for compatibility.

BTW, my initial comment was a general statement and not directed at anyone in particular.

Stewdio,

I agree on so many levels, but one must take into consideration that a large portion of the people who have not upgraded are people who don't even know what you're talking about when you say "browser." Yup, that's right. As a service technician (my other job), I come in contact with people all the time who use words like thingy, and whatchamacallit. To them, it's the magic box that opens a window to their electronic mail. Many of these people are, well, old and so intimidated by that magic box thingy, that they a) don't think they could ever understand it b) really have no desire to. It's just there because their childeren or grandchildren bought it for them so they can keep in touch and share pictures.

Personally, I think it's best to know your audience. If you want to get up-to-date info on browser statistics, go to the following link:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

June 2004
IE 6 - 72.8%
IE 5 - 8.9%
O 7 - 2.2%
Moz - 11.2%
NN 3 - 0.3%
NN 4 - 0.3%
NN 7 - 1.4%

Yup, Microslop is still leading the pack.

I would love to fully transition over to CSS, but given the nature of my business, a portion of my target audience is likely to be in the minority. Therefore, I'm forced to used a combination of the two.

The diff,docs, and extra folders do not have to be uploaded.

Are you behind a firewall? If so, which brand/version?

I have ZoneAlarm 5.0.590.015 and it does not like XOOPS at all. The previous versions had no problem with xoops, but this one does.

Depending on your firewall, you may be able to set a rule to allow your website (host) by url.

Oh yeah, and what Stewdio said too.

Currently the osCommerce module does not support shared user data with Xoops. Therefore, your customers will have to register twice if you want them to be registered in your XOOPS site and osCommerce. There has been much debate about this issue, but for now, this is the way it will stay.

No-ah, on the other hand, seems to have a more seemless integration with XOOPS and is actively being developed. If you are new to XOOPS and/or eCommerce, I would recommend to take a look at No-ah.

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Agreed. I see nothing wrong with charging for a module that you developed from scratch. Where I would have a problem is if you took existing modules, hacked the code to perform enhanced functions and then turned around and sold it as your own work. That would be just plain wrong. It doesn't seem as though that is the situation in this case; therefore, I see nothing wrong with selling your work.

Similar to what has been previously mentioned, I personally believe anyone who a) is benefiting from XOOPS and b) who has the skill to do so, should give something back to the project and community that has given so much to them freely.

I may charge clients to install/customize their XOOPS package (either because they don't know how or don't want to bother with it - it's their choice), but there are a few projects I'm working on that will be distributed free of charge to the XOOPS community. Why? Because the XOOPS community has given me so much.

From what I've seen thus far, there are countless members who feel and do the same.

Just my 2 pennies

If you want to replace the XOOPS logo from the default theme, you can go about it in two ways...

Method 1
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1. Rename your logo as logo.gif
2. Open theme.html in notepad or an html editor
3. Look for the following code

4. Change the width and height values to match your logo's demensions.
5. Save the file
6. Empty the contents of templates_c to remove the theme cache (otherwise your changes won't show up)
7. Test your theme

Method 2
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Step #2-3 from above
4. Change the name of the graphic to the name of your logo and edit the height and width appropriately
Steps #5-7

If you are referring to the banner that is displayed near the center of the header, you could do as mentioned above (disable banners from admin control panel), or you could relocate the banner to another place in the theme. The following example relocates the banner from the header to the top of the center column....

1. Open theme.html in notepad or an html editor
2. Look for the following code

3. No replace <{$xoops_banner}> with &nbsp; (this will create a space so that your theme stays properly aligned)
4. Now look for the following code

5. Just between <td id="centercolumn"> and <!-- Display center blocks if any --> insert the following code

Your final code should look like this

6. Save the file
7. Empty the contents of templates_c to remove the theme cache (otherwise your changes won't show up)
8. Test your theme

You can use a similar process to relocate your banner just about anywhere you want.

Hope this helped.

EDIT: If you decide to relocate your banner you may want to open style.css and look for td#headerbanner, then delete the portion background-color:#...... (the #...... will be a hex number in the form of #1234AB or something like that).

Sorry, I forgot about that one.

Thanks guys. This will give me a good starter point on where to focus my research. Prior to your help, I was just reading through page after page after.... of the MySQL and php manuals and posts on several forums. It wasn't getting me anywhere.

As far as a paid programer goes...

I'm working on an double major in college, Network Administration and Software Engineering. I tend to want to learn vs. pay someone else to do it. Learning is good.