I say don't mess with a good thing!

Xoops Newb forum is good enough .. i certaintly wont be changing to some other half cocked module! im sticking with the one i have.. some people this is where they go wrong fiddling with a good thing UHUHUH

Kindest Regards
Nathan

That's the message everyone gets when they try to log into my site (http://www.mofogamers.com)...

Is anyone else having this problem??? It was working fine... nobody changed anything! Then all of a sudden the login went screwy... help!

I've used the hack from Jan's site, and it worked without a problem using XOOPS 2.02, W2K Server and IIS.

My only reservation with using such a hack (which has already been brought up I think) is that to my understanding the way it works is by leaving sessions open for extended periods of time. My problems with this method are;

1. on a site with a lot of traffic, there would be a significant performnace hit on your server.

2. Using this method is not suitable to have true "never log off" option.

3. Using this method the "Who's Online" block will always be inaccurate as it'll be populated by not only active sessions, but sessions that may have been inactive for several days depending on what you have set your session timeout to be.

This all said I think it's a very welcome hack, and given the option of having it, or not having it I most certainly am on the side of it being there. Better to have some form of auto login than none at all.

I've been an end user of CMS modules for far longer than I've been running them on my website (and thus have zero programming knowledge, so forgive me if I'm being simplistic), and I've always found it extremely frustrating not being able to set the option to login automatically to a site, especially when signing up to dozens of sites with lots having different username and password length and makup requirements making it difficult to have a generic username and password to use on all sites.

The lack of a auto login feature is one of three problems I've come across with XOOPS which if I hadn't been able to find some workaround for would've forced me to look at another CMS as my solution. Other than that, XOOPS is a top CMS and is well ahead on the easy of use and managebility side of things.

like most people aware of the lack of a true auto login feature, I encourage the XOOPS devs to keep up the great work, but please look into implementing a configuratble true auto-login feature into the core for a future release. Perhaps even in it's own module?

Thanks a million! Just what I needed.

Bela
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True to a degree, but a lot of users also get tied up and enjoy having access to forum usage statistics data, and for the web site owner I see this as being quite important for aiding in tracking site usage. I've really only looked at phpbb and newbb, and phpbb seems to accomodate a lot more statistical data than newbb. If newbb where to incorporate some of these features I'd have no desire to look elsewhere. As is, I think newbb is a perfectly functional forum, if only a slightly vanilla flavoured one.

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Thanks for that Tom, I plan at this stage on using the phpbb module unless I find any great reason not to. I only plan on upgrading XOOPS on major change releases, or on releases that directly address problems I have. As a work around to upgrading the non XOOPS supported modules such as these forums you suggested, couldn't you use one of the current migration tools for phpbb or IBF to convert to an older XOOPS version, then upgrade that via standard XOOPS upgrade path instead of migrating directly to the new XOOPS version? I'm sure there would have to be a catch with this idea ? But I'm not that smart .

Thanks for the theme suggestion too, I actually found a pretty nice XP theme on this very site .

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Thanks thepod, I actually ended up downloading the hack from www.jan304.org which is working a treat on 2.02 atm.

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That I do not doubt, I've spoken with Koudanshi, and he is one of the best, but if something was to happen in his family and god wish it never will happen, or if he takes a long holiday, or other unforseeable things arise, then you are still left waiting.

This would be better as the core module for XOOPS in order for support and upgrades, but then what would Koudanshi if the XOOPS dev's make it core, would he still be involved in development and even though he is an outstanding person, the Devs may not be looking for other Devs.

But I think IMHO we should stick with Newbb and if the Devs wish then work on that and upgrade it, incorperate new features.

Of course like I say this is IMO

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The login hack works flawlessly with XOOPS 2.02. Koudanshi has updated common.php (the only updated-to-2.03 login-hacked file) to allow login, but on 2.03 I have not managed to get it to "remember". I intend to compare the 2 common.php files I have tonight to make this work, I'll let u know if I get it to work as it should. Like I say tho, it works w/o a hitch on 2.02.
Koudanshi is very good about updating his files to work with XOOPS updates nearly as soon as XOOPS turns em out, & he is incredibly nice about helping with any issues that may arise with his modules. Even so, hes just 1 guy... which is the only reason I would suggest the XOOPS DEV team take on this module. Maybe its better as it is though... I know when I go to his site & ask a question that it will promptly be answered, I know I can rely on his modules as is.

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I've tweaked the userinfo template a lot... you can see if you look at my profile. Open up your userinfo template & replace the link for the "Edit Avatar" with "modules/ipboard/index.php?act=UserCP&CODE=24" & instead of directing ppl to the XOOPS avatar system, it will bring people to their IBF Avatar CP. If you register on my sitehttp://www.toolunity.com & view ur own profile, you will see what I mean.
With the next release of the IBF module the profiles will be even further integrated, seehttp://www.b4v.net/ecoblue/modules/ipboard/index.php?showuser=2 for an example of whats to come...

hope this helps

I tried the edits listed here...got a big white screen and nothing else upon login.

So, I reverted the files to the standard and made sure that it was fixed. It was.

Uploaded Jan's hack. I can log in, but it doesn't work; it forgets the logins like always before.

Custom sessions are on. Everything should be set. But...nada.

Any insight?

ackbarr:

Thanks a lot! It's just what I was looking for!

I haven't figured out how to do this in wf-sections yet, but to make the news article title appear in the title bar do the following

1. Modify theme.html
The theme.html file for your current theme may need to be modified like so:

find the part of your theme.html that displays the page title:


change this line to read:


2. Modify /modules/news/article.php
Add a newline before: that reads:

To see it in action:
http://www.evenground.org/xoops2/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2