Being fairly new i downloaded the Sections Module which I am using for my articles. After reading through the forums it seems this wf is probably more suited for my use as I intend to have numerous sections of different articles and will eventually have staff members contributing as well.

My questions are.. what version should I use..are there any bugs i should look for.. do i have to back-up anything done so far in my site before installation of this.. and how easy will it be to switch over the current articles in sections to wfsection?? Thank You in advance. I love XOOPS btw. It has exceeded my expectations so far.

PS. I posted a question that is about halfway down the list about a script that might be able to send a welcome message to a new members PM Inbox upon registering. No one so far has answered. If this cannot be done.. I was thinking that instead of the new member being directed upon completion of his/her registration to their profile page, I could create a welcome page and have the redirect go there...but this is something I do not know how to do. As a matter of fact..I don't know how to change any redirects. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Again Thank You.

I have music on my site home page only. You can do as nbwork said and create a block JUST for the music..but it would be my assumption that it would also have to show somewhere on the page.
What I did to simplify things is my new members block only appears once you are logged into my site. I just added this code to that block right at the top. This way it only plays on that page.

<EMBED SRC="yourfile.fileformat" VOLUME="50" HEIGHT="60" WIDTH="144" LOOP="False">

The Volume can be set up to 100..full volume. Beware tho you don't blow your members ears out in case their volume is turned up high already. The height and width control the size of the control panel. These #'s here are optimal settings for both Netscape and IE and will show the entire control panel. I set LOOP to false so it only plays once.

There are other attributes you can use but this is basic.

One word of advice. Sounds on pages can be annoying and everytime the user goes back to the page it is on it will play again. That is why I include the panel so it can be shut off and the music being played is set real low in volume. I've jumped out of my skin at times going to a page that has had loud music playing. Especially late at night. Hope this helps.

Figured I'd bump this since not a single response in 24 hours. If you need more info on what I am looking for..respond and ask. Thanks

I'm kinda new at this.. and have an older version of newbb...but when I wanted to change the text of my forum where I see Inactive spelled wrong..to edit the text i went to my Xoops/modules/newbb/language/english/main.php file... opened it and changed these lines//
define("_MD_NEWPOSTS","New posts");
define("_MD_NONEWPOSTS","No new posts");//

****Inactiv forum with New posts and Inactiv forum with No New Posts are probably right underneath these lines in the //index.php section near the top of the file****

If the spelling is incorrect there.. changing it to Inactive should solve your problem.

I've searched around the forums looking for something that would automatically send a PM (Private Message) to a new registrant's Inbox thanking them for joining when they complete the registration process but without luck. The site is new, but growing fast and I am trying to manually do this but soon i will never have the time, at 20-30 new members a day. Plus I think the idea of receiving something personal(so to speak) would give new members a good feeling right from the start. I did write a javascript that did this when I had a mini-site on ProBoards but it doesn't work here. This was it. Actually what it did was send a pop-up message.

<script language="JavaScript1.2">

if(location.href.indexOf("=register2") != -1){
alert("message to be sent")
location.href="index page of site"
}

</script>


Probably because i'm not sure where to put it(I tried in the main index file). After racking my brain a bit on this, I was thinking that possibly it might have to be part of the redirect script or the script that occurs when a member validates his confirmation email.

Am I thinking clearly on this and is this actually possible or am I asking for something that would require a complete re-write of code? I'm slowly learning the php and getting an understanding of how XOOPS comes together but this one has me stumped.

Thanks in advance

Hi all... and thanks in advance for trying to help me.. Here is my problem:

I have my forum all set up and since it is a football forum i decided to change the new post, new posts popular,no new posts, and no new posts popular icons. I found that the default images were located in the modules/newbb.images folder. What i used were small football helmet images sized slightly larger than the default size. (40x42 is the largest)

I replaced the folder.gif image with my helmet which is blank. Size 40x35. This I figured was for No New Posts.

I replaced the red_folder.gif with the same image only it has the words "NEW in a yellow block across the helmet. Also size 40x35. This i thought would be for New Posts.

I replaced the hot_folder.gif image with a helmet image only it has a band of fire at the top of the helmet.Size 40x42. This i thought would be for the No New Posts Popular.

Lastly I replaced the hot_red_folder.gif image with a helmet image that has BOTH the New block across it and the band of fire at the top. Size 40x42.

My problem is my forum shows only the NEW POSTS images. Even after the post is viewed. I created a forum later to try and figure it out and it was No Posts when I created it. I inserted a test post and the New Post image showed as it should. Then I viewed it and when i went back to the forum. The NEW Post image was still there.

I rebooted my computer..cleared my cache and my cookies and still I see the same thing. All of my members see it the same as I do also.

I thought I had the images I made assigned to the correct file name associated with the proper function...and the file names are unchanged. I wouldn't think size would matter as I didn't see any commands for it in the script and the sizes for the folder.gif and the red_folder.gif which should replace it are the same. Any thoughts on what I may have done wrong?

Thanks again,

Mike

Thanks Jason... fortunately for me..and something I just remembered is I used a redirect from an HTML coded page that i was using initially as my index page and had hand coded the login script in HTML. So i redid the redirect to point to my root page in my site. Funny how that one uses the remember me function and works. But nothing I try gets it to appear for me from the block. So I was able to replace the bad file. Anything i edit that I'm not sure about goes into a notepad text file so i can replace it but it didn't dawn on me that without being able to login i couldn't put it back. It's just frustrating that I have spent over 3 hours trying to get one simple thing to work like that remember me and getting my user and main menus to appear under the login block(which I still haven't figured out)and it's been like that for over a week, taking hours to make something work that i can write in HTML or javascript in 10 minutes. So if I seemed short.. I apologize. Thank you again for your help. I really love what my site is looking like because of Xoops.

Darn it... all i wanted to do was get the remember me check box to appear and now I guess i have no choice but to delete the whole thing and go with nuke. How can I get back to my admin page to put it back in when I can't login. The simplest seeming things are way too complicated with little documention here and searches of these things bring up nothing related. What i did was make a small change to the login block and i did save the entire script to notepad in case it didn't work.. log out.. to see if it appeared. Well...now the submit button is gone..and I can't login to my own website. Funny how I can write some of the code here.. design exactly what i need..but because of the lack of a well written formatted help menu on the indexing of Xoops.. I spend hours reading through code which i understand basically but can't find the files that need editting. 2 hours to change one thing. Sorry if it seems like I'm whining..but it's frustrating when you search for hours for an answer to what appears to be a simple question. Like how to enable remember me check box which i would think would be a common question can't be found anywhere. I give up.

Xoops... sorry about the double post. I clicked back then refresh.. i'm getting frazzled i think ..lol. Thank you again.

Thanks Lance... only thing now is the main menu and user menu boxed for the left block i have checked but it doesn't appear underneath the log-in box. Thank you again.

By the way.. tried doing this before but gave up and was going to try again later after this fix was the remember me check box doesn't appear and also in the newbb forum when a reply is made to a post..it doesn't show like in here with the thread being continued underneath..but there is a place below where you click on reply to view it. i would rather have it like it is in here. Anymore help?? And sorry for all the questions. Coding I know fairly well.. but it's where everything is and how it comes together in XOOPS that I need to learn. Then I can help others confidently in return for the help I have received here.