Okay I think I got the most of that through the translation your saying this?

The modifications in XOOPS version 2 are mostly in the core programming. The modules are merely getting object oriented updates.

You have no disposition on the forum yet and may switch to a faster one in the future..

If you look in deep the x2 are not changed the modules , are changed the core, the themes system , the comments system and principally more oo oriented.

The modules are changed to smarty, enhanced and fixed but nothing more. the real work in the modules come in the next version of xoops.

For the forum we not have a desition yet, may be we use a ultra fast OO forum but are not decided yet.

I like phpbb but I think I have just been spoiled by the invision board team. Mind you they are also all X crew from the ikonboard team bent on making the forum 3x better than ikon so your going to expect quality heh.

I should go grab the latest version of phpbb and install it to see what they have updated since I last tried it...
Have the fixed the sessions problem that happen within apache 2 and php4?

Phpbb works faster than yabb in my opinion, I do use gzip compression and have never had a complaint about a slow forum you can check it outhttp://www.trudyscandles.com/groupladder/forum I also think the mod developers are very high quality, I like to keep improving it...lol, the support forum is tops, nearly live help and many many questions answered.
I did however just install a Yabb forum athttp://www.trudyscandles.com/forum however it's not setup yet, I had it going with the latest yabb version and the same day they announced bugs "after the official release!" I went to the next earlier version 1.4.1 I think, and will just add the patches.
I do like the Phpbb though :)

Jack

What made you choose that board for the XOOPS 2? I only ask because when you put it up against some other boards for example wwwthreads,invision,yabbse all make phpbb look very slow.

Now I can understand not using wwwthreads as its not a free script but there are so many more better free forum scripts..

What was it that made you choose phpbb.

strict: a-z, A-Z, 0-9 only

medium: strict plus <>,.$%#@!'"

loose: medium plus ?{}[]()^&*`~;:\+=


Currently, no spaces are allowed in a user name

Hi,

I'm curious about the three levels of username strictness. I understand that "strick" is alpha-numeric only, but what additional characters are allowed with "medium" and "light"?

I'm finding that many new users seem to want to include spaces in their usernames and I'm wondering if there is any down side to allowing special characters.

TIA

As long as you are not altering the code other than adding in mods or sblocks available. There should be NO problem with someon charging for their time or consultation to create a custom XOOPS site.

That is my interpertation of the GPL.

However, the ORIGINAL copyright can not be changed and the links must remain. You would need to buy a license to remove or append it if it is offered.

I have spent literally months looking at different "CMS/Portal/Weblog/Document Mgmt" solutions for my company as well as for web sites of a number of clubs I belong to. I'd love to find a product that would do it all for me, but it seems like that is just not possible with any product out there (including commercial products).

I have installed and started using a bunch of different CMS's, and currently have pilot sites up using slashcode, squishdot, plone, xoops, phpslash, opencms and tiki. At work I have Oracle's commercial product 9iAS as a pilot site. I've tried and discarded a lot of others as well.

I wish there were an un-biased review of the various products and some kind of feature matrix to aid in decision making. I've found some of these, but they are clearly "marketing material", and very biased to a certain product. There are probably white papers available from consultants, but even these are biased in favor of the products they like to install and support.

Each product has a definate "Focus" in it's features, and they support some usages much better than others. For example, XOOPS is a dream to install and admin (nice work guys and gals), but has nothing even approaching the document managment features of Oracle's Application Server or Zope/Plone. For my "club" sites that I run at home, that's a non-issue, so I like XOOPS very much (I like TikiWiki also and am having trouble choosing). However, at work, the lack of good versioning/auditing/rendering makes XOOPS a non-starter for Document Management. It's a shame too, do you know how much we are going to spend for Oracle and Documentum licenses and consultants fees ? Lets' just say it would support the entire XOOPS team in a rather lavish lifestyle for a long time (think "winning the lottery"). We spent about $35k for 2 consultants to have a bunch of meetings and write up a paper telling us the obvious ("You need a Document Management System, yesterday !!").

Anyway, your question about business use is quite hard to answer simply. Fortunately for you, this is a very promising area for consultants, and the more you know about the available solutions, the better you'll be able to serve your clients.

Dennis

The CVS is back up and I'm currently looking into the 'disable HTML' bug

Herko