I will not fork your module... You are doing sooo much more work than I am. As I mentioned above, I have a functioning way of doing what I want right now (manually).

WF-Channel is great because of it's simple implementation. I love that. I also understand that that is why it may not have the capability I need. WF-Section (as much as I have looked at it) is much more powerful, but does not provide the ability to have multiple main menu entries with there own arbitrary sub muenu entries. This is what I, and I would imagine a lot of others, want to do.

Correct me if I am wrong, but this seems to be a limitation of XOOPS not the modules. I can not create multiple top level main menu entries from a single module. If this is indeed true, I can at least create a very easy to configure module that can be installed multiple times. This gives me the multiple top level main menu entries I need. If I am way off base... Could someone kindly point me to a single module that does create multiple top level main menu entries so that I may check out how it works?

Thanks,

Jason

Any insights on how to make a module searchable and add it to the selectable modules for searching?

I have been rather disappointed with the state of flexable static content modules around. About the closest thing I can find is WF-Channel. It works just like I want except that it puts one top level entry into the main menu.
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example Main Menu-wf-channel
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wf-channel
--About Us
--Services
--Products
--Link to us
Forum
News
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end of example
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What I want is this:
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example Main Menu like I want
(only one section would be expanded)
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About Us
--Company Info
--History
--Professionals
--Beliefs
Services
--Meat Grinding
--Pork Pulling
--Chicken Plucking
--Fish Scaling
Forum
News
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end of example
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I realize that a main menu entry for each section requires seperate modules to be installed. I am OK with that. What I invision is a version of wf-channels that has a central config sheet (how it should be done anyways) that can be modified for each new main menu entry required. After modification, this "new" module would be installed.

I am currently using static folders and subfolders with manualy cofigured xoops_version.php files to achive this. Each static folder is installed as a module. It actually works very well. The only issue is no ability to update it through the XOOPS administration. I ftp like a regular website.


I am planning on reworking the wf-channels to provide this desired functioality.

Jason Massey

That is great news!

One question...

There obviously needs to be these sql dump for each of these DBs. But won't there need to be some adjustment, or alternate versions of the DAO?

Jason

What is wrong with Postgres or SAP-DB?

Postgress is BSD and SAP-DB is GPL.

Having said that, I have nothing against firebird, I have just never worked with it.

My main concern is MySQL's lacking in data integrity features, such as commit and roll-back.

SAP-DB is great, and Postgres is the old standard. How does firebird rate?

I see that currently there is only support for MySQL. I also notice a few interesting points.

1> There is a Database Abstraction Object

2> There is support in the install to install on different DBs(though not implemented)

What is the status on multiple database support? I would love to help. If there is others working on it, let me know what I can do. If not, I would like to start.

J-Mass

I can not seem to get the HEADLINES module to work. I have 2.0.5.1 installed and working fine. The XOOPS Official Site entry dosen't even show on the page. When I enter other feeds, the titles show, but no news. I know the urls are valid, because if I put them in the address bar they show the XML files.

Please help

Jason