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VideoDude
Off-topic... image quality and AOL

  • 2004/10/30 11:08

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"Friends don't let friends drive AOL." That being said, I was reviewing my site from an AOL connected computer and I noticed that my header graphic looked terribly distorted. Very muddy. Very unclear. I can only assume that AOL is trying to simulate faster bandwidth to their customers by pre-condensing images before they're sent to the browser. Is there anything that a webmaster can do (any tags that can be embedded) to force AOL to broadcast images at their original quality?
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VideoDude
Re:snx_weather... legal?

  • 2004/10/30 10:38

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Yeeeoouch!! Snakes, thanks for sharing that letter. Just pulled snx_weather from my site. Too bad... it was a very nice resource. Fall back and punt.
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VideoDude
Re: xoops site delaying when visiting it first time

  • 2004/10/26 10:36

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I don't know if this is helpful, but I was experiencing a similar delay. The problem, I discovered, was related to a module I had installed whose content appeared in a block on my main page. The block retrieved a feed from another site. It appeared that my main page wouldn't load until the syndicated information had been retrieved. This would take 4 or 5 seconds.

After I removed the block (snx_weather), the page loading time reduced significantly.
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VideoDude
snx_weather... legal?

  • 2004/10/25 19:22

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I installed snx_weather on my site now am feeling a little remorseful because I'm uncertain about the legalities of using content that appears to be syndicated. Can anyone address whether there's a legal problem with using snx_weather without compensating the content provider?
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VideoDude
Agenda-X and Apostrophes

  • 2004/10/25 19:13

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I've tried resolving this on the module creator's web site... now I bring it to the community.

It appears that people who are using Agenda-X (at least version 2.2) are having similar problems. It seems as though any posting that includes an apostrophe or a double-quote will result in a failure that keeps the event from being recorded to the database. If a user posts an event with an apostrophe the administrator is never notified of the post and a check of the "Pending Events" will not show the event.

Naturally, the event never gets posted. The user gets frustrated. And the administrator stays in the dark because they don't see any activity.

Can someone who's a little more talented at programming than me perhaps take a look at this?
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VideoDude
Re: Registration Page Questions

  • 2004/10/25 18:56

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Likely not the cleanest solution, but I went into register.php and changed:
//OpenTable();
echo _US_USERNAME.": .$myts->makeTboxData4Preview($uname)."<br />";

To
//OpenTable();
echo "<h1>Check Details and Click "Finish" Below</h1>";
echo _US_USERNAME.": .$myts->makeTboxData4Preview($uname)."<br />";


Then to call attention to the activation step I modified the _US_YOURREGISTERED variable in /language/english/user.php by adding an H1 tag at the beginning of the text to be displayed. Of course, I terminated the tag at the end of the text to be displayed.

This worked nicely. Oh, and for you XOOPS web site owners who are grammatic perfectionists. The text associated with the _US_YOURREGISTERED variable should be changed from "...an user activation key..." to "...a user activation key..."
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VideoDude
Re: Installed app versus a module?

  • 2004/10/25 17:34

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I've been studying up on phpAdsNew and have installed it on my site (but haven't made it active yet). I suspect that bringing your current db into a xoops-db environment should be quite easy.

From the reading I've done, however, you should be able to keep your existing data in place (along with whatever existing administrative and user interfaces you have running) and simply publish ads from phpAdsNew into zones you've created for it. I'm probably not making much sense here.

If you convert over to XOOPS as the primary content management system for your site, you should be able to use your existing phpAdsNew configuration and publish ads from it onto your new XOOPS pages without much of a problem.
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VideoDude
Re: Registration Page Questions

  • 2004/10/25 15:15

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ackbarr... Good suggestion.
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VideoDude
Re: Registration Page Questions

  • 2004/10/25 15:12

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hey tj... thanks again for your input. I guess a "themeable" registration screen is on the way (or at least I hope so).

You know what I'm most concerned about isn't so much the 1st screen... it's the 2nd one (the one people get after successfully completing the registration form). Right now, all my users see is a very plain screen that repeats their username, email address, and timezone selection. There's also a button there labeled "finish". I'd be willing to guess that I've lost people because they never completed the process by selecting the "finish" button. I'd love to know how to spice up that page a little to let users know they have to press that button. Y'Know?
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VideoDude
Re: Registration Page Questions

  • 2004/10/25 15:00

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A quick answer to my own 2nd question... the answer is found in "/class/xoopsform/themeform.php". For what it's worth, I've decided not to modify this file as the effects could reach far beyond the registration form.
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