Unless I've missed something, the sourceforge module page only works well as a second stop after the xoops.org news page to see what's been added, what each module does, and what has been updated. It's also good for finding the latest module once found on the xoops.org downloads page. ideally, every XOOPS module would be aggregated from around the web into something similar to this:

Os commerce module page

where there is info on module purpose, latest version to download, and news of its updates all in the one place.

not much by way of pure XOOPS modules and hacks on modscentral.com. e-xoops pretty much exclusively.

I run OS Commerce alongside XOOPS separately rather than using the module. I had trouble with the module, IMO it's a lot of hassles without much benefit. If you wanna sell records with OSC checkout:

http://www.vinylwarning.com.au/

also checkout

http://www.beatport.com for download sales.

Http://www.netjuke.com is also pretty cool as a web jukebox.

Andromeda is not free, it costs between $35 to $495.http://www.netjuke.org is free and open source, and does seemingly the same type of thing. Netjuke version 2 is officially out soon with a demo linked from the developer site, and will supposedly have an e-commerce module to go with it. There is a newhttp://developer.netjuke.org/ site. After investigating, I reckon Netjuke is to web jukeboxes what XOOPS is to CMS.

They might come back and if your admin has not fixed the correct holes, they'll probably remove everything. This happened to me a while back. Some hack groups try to put ISPs out of business this way. Be alert but not alarmed.

Surpasshosting is better value:
http://www.surpasshosting.com/?x=hostingplans.

AndyM's has created a great lightweight alternative to WF-sections for articles:

https://xoops.org/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?cid=24&lid=514

The latest XF-Section with Spotlight is also good.

Depending on your needs, WF-Section may have been overkill anyway.

Also Tiny content duplicatable is pretty good.

The file manager, which is part of CPanel allows for easy copying, deleting and moving of folders. Also, there is a backup facility for copying the root and all subfolders across to another server using FTP. Hence the data would bypass your personal computer and goes straight to the other server, wherever it may be. Coupled with the MySQL and email account backups, migration FROM Surpass should be easy, if the need arose.

phppp..seems like a hack/update worthy of becoming part of the core application.

Hi there,

I have found it is impossible to call session variables from a XOOPS pages even though they were declared in another non-xoops pages from the same directory.

For example, any XOOPS pages will not be able to call this:

session_start();
$city = $_SESSION['cityname'] // as declared in non-xoops page

I have tried using the custom session name in XOOPS admin whilst also declaring this session name in the non-xoops page using session_name([string name]), but it doesn't help in the XOOPS page when calling the required variable as it was declared in the non-xoops page.

Furthermore, whatever I set in XOOPS session name, the output for session name is default: PHPSESSID. Similarly whatever is set in the non-xoops page, the session name still takes on the default: PHPSESSID.

An good example highlighting the discrepancy was when a very simple non-xoops page displayed 'Melbourne' whereas that same page file delivered from C-jay content module could not display 'Melbourne' because it was taken from a variable stored in the session object.

Questions:
1) What is the custom session variable in the XOOPS admin for?
2) How does one best declare session variables in XOOPS to be called in pages external to xoops?
3) Is there some setting change needed or problem on the server that could assist?
4) Are there any suggestions you have that would possibly be of assistance?


Thanks.