I've installed the Content module, because I have a few permanent static pages I need to create outside of the Articles structure, but I'm having a few problems with it.

Several of the pages use forms, for purposes such as allowing people to submit a question to an advice column, but Content does not seem to be designed to allow you to input your own HTML in general, or use forms in particular.

I was eventually able to input the HTML for the form by disabling the WYSIWYG editor, but it still chokes on the form - specifically the textarea element in it. I think that maybe it interprets the closing textarea tag as closing the textarea in the editor itself, because anything from that point on seems to get cut off, including my submit button.

Is there any way to get it not to do this, or is there another module that might work better? I also need to be able to include PHP tags for one page.

Also, it seems to break the division between the main column and the right column, so that all the blocks that are supposed to be in the right column appear stretched out at the bottom of the main column and the right column doesn't appear at all. I have no idea what's causing that, unless it's the fact that the form in my content is in a table and maybe the table tags are breaking the page layout.

I tried using the PageWrapper function instead of Add Content, but I couldn't figure out how you were supposed to access the page. I'm not using the default main menu - I'm using MultiMenu, so I need to know the URLs of the pages to add to my custom menus, but while the pages I add with the Add Content form appear in a nice little list that I can pull the URLs from, anything I add with PageWrapper just seems to disappear and I can't figure out how to access it.

Does anyone know if there's any *reliable* way of wrapping existing HTML or PHP pages in a XOOPS wrapper? Because this module doesn't appear to be it...

Thanks,

Lynna

Thanks - updating AMS did the trick! I didn't realize it put the templates in the database.

And I am working on a custom block for the ads.

I have to say, despite the few things that have given me problems with this site, overall I like XOOPS so much! It's much more pleasant to work with than Mambo or Postnuke, the only other CMS's I've tried. And it's so customizable. They all claim to be, but XOOPS seems to be much more so.

This site that I'm (hopefully) almost done with now is the first XOOPS site I've done, but now I'm planning to use it on three others I can think of. I'm that happy with it.

Cool, thank you! That's fixed the footer issue - the copyright is now showing up fine.

But it doesn't seem to have helped AMS - there was nothing in the main cache folder except a copy of the admin menu. Nothing from AMS. I checked the site preferences in the admin, and caching is already turned off for all modules that it lists there (which unfortunately does not include AMS). I checked AMS's own preferences, but I didn't see any reference to caching there. And I checked all through the AMS directory via FTP to see if it had a cache folder of its own hidden somewhere, but I didn't find one. So I'm still stuck on that one. It's obviously caching stuff somewhere, but I can't figure out where.

On the ad blocks thing - I didn't see a banners block in the block list, so I'm assuming I need to make one? Can I just define a new block and put the banner code from the default template into it, and then set the block to display where I want the ads?


Lynna

I'm working on a XOOPS site which uses a customized version of the default XOOPS theme, and one of the things I did early on in creating my variant theme was to place a header graphic at the top, extending all the way across the page.

Looks great, but I am now discovering, just a few days before the site is due to launch, that that was where the banner ads were apparently supposed to go in the default layout. Oops. I had wondered why no ads were showing up anywhere. :)

I really don't want to mess with the design too much at this stage, but the client really wants banner ads, so I'm wondering if I can put them somewhere else. If I find the original theme files, from before I modified them, and copy the code that originally displayed the banner at the top, can I put it somewhere else in the template and have it still work? Is there anything in particular I need to know before doing that in order not to break anything?

Also: I've found that sometimes when I make changes to templates, they don't show up on the site at all. Like right now - I changed the footerbar in the theme.html file to include a custom copyright notice a couple of days ago, but it still just shows the default "Powered by Xoops" graphic there. And today I made a bunch of changes to the AMS templates (ams_item.html and ams_article.html), to remove all the extraneous stuff like article ratings, reads and ID numbers (since there appears to be no other way to disable those), but those changes aren't showing up either.

I thought at first it was a browser caching issue, but clearing my cache and even switching browsers didn't help. Any ideas? Is there something I have to do in the admin to make my changes show up?

Thanks,

Lynna

Does anyone know if there's an articles module of some kind out there that allows the author of an article to be set by an admin when the article is submitted, rather than each article having to be submitted by the author?

I'm doing a site for an online magazine where the editors insist they don't want to have to edit submissions online because they find the form too awkward to use -- they want to be able to have the writers e-mail them the articles, edit them in Word, and then just paste them into the submit form when they're ready to be published. And with any of the modules I've looked at so far, they'd have to log out and in again for every article and keep track of separate logins for all the contributors.

(And of course, they dropped this "We want to edit everything in Word" bombshell on me *after* I'd nearly completed the site and set them up with AMS, under the assumption that the authors would be submitting directly... )

So... does this exist? Or if it doesn't, how hard would it be for someone like me with a roughly intermediate knowledge of PHP to edit an existing module to allow it? I think it would be OK if it just allowed them to pick from a menu of registered users -- setting up an account for each writer once wouldn't be too big a headache as it would mostly be the same writers appearing regularly.


Lynna

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This is something I'd like to do too - I've downloaded and installed MultiMenu, but am not clear on how I would make a menu I created there replace the main menu. Any pointers on how to do that?

Thanks,

Lynna

Hello,

I'm new to Xoops, but in the process of setting it up on three different sites (which is probably technically a symptom of some kind of insanity, but let's not go there just yet). Anyway, on the site I'm primarily focussing on right now, I've run into a problem with user registration.

I asked the site owner to have a couple of the writers for the site who want to start uploading content register as new users, and then I would put them into the Contributors group I created so that they would have access to post articles.

She registered herself first, and sent me the username she used, but when I went in to try and change her group designation, she wasn't in there. Not when I searched under her username in Find Users, not when I submitted a blank Find Users form to see if anyone other than the main account was registered, and not when I checked the users table in phpMyAdmin. No users than the admin account exist.

I asked if she had gotten any kind of error message, but she said no, as far as she could tell everything had gone OK. She had just gotten a "thank you for registering" type message.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong here? I'm using XOOPS 2.0.13.2 in case that's relevant.

Thanks,

Lynna