Duh -- nevermind. I figured out how $xoops_footer is defined by Administration Menu > System > Preferences > Meta Tags and Footer

smartfaq 1.08 test results so far:

1. Can import FAQs from xoopsfaq 1.1. Cool!

2. Built-in Block Management feature does NOT work -- error "XOOPS root path not defined" displayed.

3. The Recent Open Questions block's link "See all unanswered questions..." displays a blank page! -- logged in as administrator with permissions set.

Same problem for the SmartFAQ "Open questions" (sidebar) link -- whether logged in or not.

The workaround is not to have any Open Questions -- then there's no buggy link.

Re Burning and Runeher's posts for mylinks (assuming version 1.1) regarding empty textarea when you edit an item, perhaps there's a similar code fix for xoopsfaq 1.1 -- if there's any interest still in xoopsfaq 1.1 verus smartfaq.

With XOOPS 2.3 and xoopsfaq 1.1, when I try to edit a question, the Question text is there, BUT the Answer text always is BLANK (empty).

I have a similar or related question. I upgraded an XOOPS site from version 2.0.18.1 to 2.3 but the footer info at the bottom of normal pages still says "Powered by XOOPS 2.0 © 2001-2003 The XOOPS Project." Yes, the admin pages say "Powered by XOOPS 2.3.0 © 2001-2008 The XOOPS Project." I have looked at templates and code but cannot figure out what to change.

Also, I recall that there might be some reason not to have that info in the page footer at all. Any advice?

I was not able to find weblinks 1.91 in the repository or searching the XOOPS site. Is there a link to the download somewhere?

JAVesey - thanks for the comments and reassurance. Liaise is very important to one of my customers.

I have read some posts that Liaise 1.26 works with XOOPS 2.3.x okay and some posts that a patch or patches are required for the mailer, etc. I am doing compatibility testing after upgrading a site from 2.0.18.1 to 2.3. All I have noticed so far is the "Version of XOOPS does not meet the system requirement. Liaise may not work properly" admin error.

Does it work okay other than the footer.php error or are other patches indeed required? -- any consensus regarding compatibility?

I can confirm anderssk's post that xoopsfaq 1.1 is not working properly with XOOPS 2.3. While I can add a category and new question okay (unlike anderssk), when I try to edit a question, the Question text is there, BUT the Answer text always is BLANK (empty).

I have a similar problem with news 1.1 and mylinks 1.1, for which there appear to be newer compatible versions (which I will be testing). I recently upgraded an XOOPS site from 2.0.18.1 to 2.3 for such testing.

PHP Version 5.2.6
MySQL Version 5.0.16

8-30-2007 Update

Additional modules "fixed" are:

xoopsfaq 1.1
news 1 - but possible problem with use of code in article text
sections 1
xoopspoll 1

and mylinks 1.1

running under PHP5 (CGI) with magic_quotes_gpc OFF and register_globals OFF and register_long_arrays OFF.

XOOPS PHP 5 Testing

I've gotten dragged into the issue of XOOPS compatibility with PHP5. I moved a customer's XOOPS site from my ISP's server to the customer's server and ran into some problems. Both servers were running PHP 4. Curl-modified modules failed on the customer's server due to an old version of curl. So, they set up a new server running the latest versions of programs (including curl), but more XOOPS modules failed until the (local) value for long arrays was enabled (Php_Flag register_long_arrays On). That server is running PHP5 as an Apache module. So, under PHP5 in that case, that's a workaround.

However, while allowing new fully-hosted domains to be either PHP4 or PHP5, my ISP has made PHP5 the standard and is preparing for PHP6. They run PHP5 (and PHP4) in CGI mode.

So, today I set up a new domain with my ISP using PHP5 and moved an XOOPS demo site from a PHP4 domain to the new PHP5 domain, and started testing for compatibility. So far, all the modules that I'd been using except one fail. My list is below.

Note that by default for PHP5, my ISP disables register_globals (which cannot be enabled), magic_quotes_gpc, and register_long_arrays. To enable magic_quotes_gpc requires installing a custom version of PHP5 and modifying that copy of php.ini. I found no mention whether that technical workaround also is possible for register_long_arrays. (htaccess may be used on my customer's server for changing these settings, since PHP5 runs as an Apache module.)

My ISP notes that register_globals and register_long_arrays will not exist in PHP6.

XOOPS version 2.0.16

These modules are NOT compatible with PHP5:

Headlines 1 (xoopsheadlines) - cannot edit

Links 1.1 (mylinks) - cannot edit

FAQ 1.1 (xoopsfaq) - cannot edit

News 1.1 (news) - comments link no-op, cannot edit

Sections 1 (sections) - cannot edit

Polls 1 (xoopspoll) - cannot edit

PopnupBlog 1.33 - cannot edit (latest version does not mention anything about PHP5?)

Stockbox 0.1 (stockquotes) - no-op (even with curl fix for fopen disable)

These modules appear okay:

System (system)

Liaise 1.26 (liaise)

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Update 8/28/2007 6:00pm PDT

I read some about the differences between globals / superglobals for PHP4 and PHP5, and tried a "simpleton's" approach to repairing some modules. So far, I "fixed" stockquotes 0.1 and xoopsheadlines 1 by replacing $HTTP_GET_VARS with $_GET and $HTTP_POST_VARS with $_POST.