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Re: easy newb question

2004/8/26 2:35
hsalazar
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David:
Go to Admin > Groups, select the Anonymous group and mark the checkboxes that give these users access to the features you want. Just be careful not to give them admin control.

Cheers.

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Re: I'm soooo new at this, having troubles

2004/8/22 3:12
hsalazar
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JonBon:

Well, in this case my suggestion would be to watch closely the way the default theme is built, and to clone its structure and behavior. You have to make sure that you can splice your HTML in little autonomous blocks:

1) A block for the header
2) A block for the content area
3) A block for the footer

Also, within the content area, you need to splice the block in three sub-blocks:

2a) A block for the left column
2b) A block for the center content area
2c) A block for the right column

The usual path here is to put all this in a table, so 2a, 2b and 2c are TDs in that table.

Then, in 2a you need to define

2a1) A block head
2a2) A block content

In 2c you need

2c1) A block head
2c2) A block content

Then, in 2b, you need to define:

2b1) A block head full-width
2b2) A block content full-width
2b3) A block head half-with
2b4) A block content half-width
2b5) A block for the general content

If you see how theme.html is built on the default theme, you'll find it easy to grow from there.

Cheers.

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Re: comments disappear in soapbox 1.5RC2

2004/8/22 1:40
hsalazar
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First, I apologize to you all. I know it's been ages since last version. Perhaps a module writer should not divide his attention so much, and I almost finished two other modules in the meantime: WordBook and FilmMakers.

Now, for the news. A good friend is testing the next Soapbox release to squash as many bugs as possible. What I sent him solved many problems posed in different posts, though not this one. I WILL correct this before posting the new version. So it won't take long (at most a few days) before I release an improved module.

Cheers.

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Re: Simple Question Regarding Install

2004/8/22 1:33
hsalazar
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Docker:

This is indeed something important missing from the XOOPS distribution. An easy, simple explanation of what to do. Here it is:

The XOOPS distribution is a compressed archive containing three directories: docs, extras and html. This is their content:

+ docs contains a basic documentation HTML file, as well as the release notes, the cumulative changelog and the GNU General Public License under which XOOPS is released.

+ extras contains a couple of goodies for curious people. One of them is a special login that shows in a popup window for SSL enabled sites. The other is a complement to the x2t theme. This complement, optional, lets you: include themed templates for the official modules, have a 2 column layout in your News module's index, have an alternate layout for the theme, this one with center-center blocks on top.

+ html contains the XOOPS distribution. If you're going to have a single site in your localhost, you copy the contents of the folder in your root folder. If you're going to have many sites in your localhost (for instance, to do tests and such), you change the name of this directory (to dirname, let's say) and launch the install wizard byt typing:http://localhost/dirname. This will run index.php, and the way this file is built will make sure the install wizard is switched on.

Cheers

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Re: I'm soooo new at this, having troubles

2004/8/22 1:13
hsalazar
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JonBon:

Well, the first thing you need to do is tell the nature of your problems, of course. If you can build this image with HTML, your almost there. Have you reached that point already?

Cheers.

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Re: Individual blocks for each category, Possible?

2004/8/18 6:00
hsalazar
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Richard:

Since blocks need to be registered into XOOPS when installing the module, it might be very difficult to do this completely dynamic. On the other hand, if you know the categories from the start, it should be a somewhat easy hack. You just need to build the blocks files, the templates, and modify the retrieval of data, so that each block retrieves not all the links, but only those links WHERE category = name, or something like that.

Cheers.

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Re: wordbook and cache

2004/8/18 5:48
hsalazar
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rowdie:

Thanks for the suggestion. As you'll probably see in my code, I was worried about making it work and certainly used no tactics or strategy to build efficient queries. As I learn more about how to do things, I'll build more efficient modules, but hey, it might take long... :)

Cheers.

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Re: What or where determines right block placement?

2004/8/18 5:39
hsalazar
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queentux:

Welcome to the search for the Holy Grail! The building of a tableless design for XOOPS is one of those nice objectives that browsers try to avoid. The most probable reason behind your problem is the inclusion of paddings or margins in your structural DIVs.

The convenient approach to this kind of challenge is to find first an adequate solution to a three column design. I'd recommend Craig Saila's site (www.saila.com), this list with over a thousand tableless sites (http://meryl.net/css/index.php) or the incutio lists (http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssLayouts) as good starting points.

Once you have a good layout, that works across the browsers you want to serve, you need to convert it into a XOOPS theme, that is, to include the relevant Smarty variables in the file. This is detail work, but not really hard.

I hope these are good enough pointers.

Cheers.

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Re: Why I can't change the content of the template?

2004/8/18 5:31
hsalazar
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BingHorJai:

A common reason might be that you're trying to modify the default template set, something that is not possible, by design. To change any template, you need to either use a different template set or to clone the default template set and then define your clone as the active template set: after that you'll be able to edit them at will.

Cheers.

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Re: wordbook and cache

2004/8/17 19:36
hsalazar
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comegona:

Wow! That's certainly a lot of entries. I never thought the sheer size of the content could be troublesome, but now that you mention this, I suppose the problem comes not from the module itself but from the fact that the module's index page includes three blocks: latest, most popular and random entries. My guess would be that the module goes over all entries when determining latest and most popular...

From this, I guess I need to reasess the display strategy. An idea might be to have separate tables to hold the id numbers of the latest and the most popular entries, so the module doesn't go over all the entries... I'll have to think about it.

Thanks for the feedback. It's good to know that even in its present state, the module has proven useful.

Cheers.

EDIT: Just visited your site. It takes forever to refresh the pages. The module will need to be completely rebuilt, hopefully with the help of some database wizard.

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