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Re: Best Xoops Forum Module?

2005/8/21 14:05
mboyden
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I'd echo the sentiments of using CBB. CBB was made by the same core developers that built newBB that until 2.2 was included in the core download of XOOPS. It's a module that plugs in. Both phpBB and IPB, both very good forums, modify core files. I found that both of those, because of the core file hacks caused problems with other modules. I remember X-phpBB caused a problem with WF-Sections, but I don't remember what x-IPB did, and IPB now charges money for their system, too.

CBB works great for me and is easy to change templates and stylesheets and the likes. It's quite powerful as well. I'm sure there is something that it doesn't have that phpBB or IPB does, but so far, on my sites, it fits the bill quite nicely and I don't have to worry about compatibility issues.

What is it about newBB that you don't like? You might try using CBB as was suggested. I must admit that every module I've implemented has required me to work on the templates to get it to look the way I want it to. I expect it may be the same for you. However, changes to look and feel are sooooo much easier in XOOPS than the Nukes and others.

Pessimists see difficulty in opportunity; Optimists see opportunity in difficulty. --W Churchill

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Re: piCal - miniCal Event Indication

2005/8/18 18:08
mboyden
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Well, I'd made links in the right column be underlined in my theme stylesheet. Once I changed that, the underline links show correctly in piCal. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Pessimists see difficulty in opportunity; Optimists see opportunity in difficulty. --W Churchill

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Re: Double Installation of a module?

2005/8/18 16:46
mboyden
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Since: 2005/3/9 1

Visit this FAQ.

Search is your friend.

There is lots of information on this site and 90% of questions are already answered. Good luck!

Pessimists see difficulty in opportunity; Optimists see opportunity in difficulty. --W Churchill

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Re: piCal - miniCal Event Indication

2005/8/17 23:49
mboyden
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Since: 2005/3/9 1

maybe because my links on the site are underlined then these are too. I guess I'll have to spend some additional time looking into it. I was hoping that we could have a background color for the cell and/or bolding or something like that.

Thanks for letting me know, though, cause at least I know it's supposed to (I somewhat assumed it was).

Pessimists see difficulty in opportunity; Optimists see opportunity in difficulty. --W Churchill

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piCal - miniCal Event Indication

2005/8/17 22:28
mboyden
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Since: 2005/3/9 1

I'd like to have the MiniCalendar indicate which days actually have events attached to them, maybe by bolding the text or highlighting it?

I like the idea of the mini calendar. And the extended mini calendar with the plug-ins is quite interesting. As it is now, however (unless I'm stupid which is possible), a person may click on a day and it has no events.

I couldn't find a mention of this in the forums. Maybe I'm mssing something, too. Otherwise, this is the best of the calendars out there for XOOPS IMHO.

Thanks.

(BTW, I posted this a number of days ago on the piCal site but no response yet, so I thought I'd try here.)

I'm using piCal v0.80 on XOOPS 2.0.12a.

Pessimists see difficulty in opportunity; Optimists see opportunity in difficulty. --W Churchill

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piCal - Duplicate Entries on Recurring Events

2005/8/17 22:27
mboyden
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Very nice module overall. I've been having one problem though on duplicate entries. It doesn't happen all the time, but so far, it happens if I make a recurring appointment and then specify the recurrence as:

* By Month, specifying a specific day of the month
* By Month, specifying last weekday of month
* By week, every 2 weeks

It duplicates the event on the first day of the recurring appointment.

However, it didn't do this on:

* By Month, Xth weekday of the month (2nd Sat, 2nd Tue, 4th Wed all worked fine without errors).

Is there a code fix somewhere for this, or should I try to provide one? It doesn't appear to be linked to the "summer time" issue (aka Daylight Savings Time)

Thanks for any help or direction so I can fix this.

(BTW, I posted this a number of days ago on the piCal site but no response yet, so I thought I'd try here.)

I'm using piCal v0.80 on XOOPS 2.0.12a.

Pessimists see difficulty in opportunity; Optimists see opportunity in difficulty. --W Churchill

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Re: PiCal timezone functionality?

2005/8/17 22:23
mboyden
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Since: 2005/3/9 1

I've installed this myself just recently and overall it works great. I'm using v0.80 which is available from their website (why it's not updated on the XOOPS site, I don't know). Maybe this latest version will solve your problem?

I'm actually having a different problem with this one resulting in duplicate entries, but no resolution yet on it.

Good luck.

Pessimists see difficulty in opportunity; Optimists see opportunity in difficulty. --W Churchill

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Re: blocks inside blocks

2005/8/17 19:23
mboyden
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I guess the question I'd ask is why not just make them center-center blocks? Or am I not understanding the question? Do you need them to be there twice? What about making your own block and then yanking the code from those two blocks to make it?

Pessimists see difficulty in opportunity; Optimists see opportunity in difficulty. --W Churchill

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Re: Tar.gz Files

2005/8/15 15:47
mboyden
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Since: 2005/3/9 1

A couple of things to note. If you unzip the files on your desktop and then upload them to your server, they may not have the proper permissions. Better to put on your server the archive file and then unzip and untar it there. It will make life easier.

.gz is gzip (uses gunzip to unzip). It's a little different beast than zip. GZIP only compresses single files (to the best of my knowledge). To unzip the file:

gunzip filename.tar.gz

To "untar" the file:

tar -x filename.tar

However, you may want to have this in it's own directory because of how the archive was tar'ed in the first place.

Finally, a quirk if you're using Firefox, that I've experienced. When I download a .tar.gz file, it actually gunzips it upon saving it to the hard disk. I actually have a .tar file at that point (even though I saved it as a .tar.gz and there is no notice that it's being unzipped). I tore my hair out for a little while on that one.

Good luck,

Pessimists see difficulty in opportunity; Optimists see opportunity in difficulty. --W Churchill

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Re: alternate row colors in center-center block

2005/8/9 15:12
mboyden
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Posts: 484
Since: 2005/3/9 1

Cycle values is the answer. You can still cycle values, but you need to apply the changes to the row defintion (the TR) instead of the cell definition (the TD/TH). I define two classes -- odd & even -- each with a differing background color, and then cycle through the classes to apply to each row which does what you are asking.

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