As long as we are talking about it, I do wish there was a feature that created a thread in Newbb for discussions. It would take the content piece (news item, or whatever) and put it as the first message of the thread.

Or, if not that, it would be cool if "comments" at the bottom of stories could be viewed as if they were in a forum (though it seems like one needs to pick a horse).

Or, if not that, it would be cool if the first message in a newbb thread could be viewed as a "news item" with comments comprised as other messages in the thread.

Integration between content views from task to task would be nice, I think.

There was some thought of a super module... I think the German support site even had a beta or two... but, I think perhaps people are waiting to see what comes next.

There has been talk of having WFSections replace Sections in the next XOOPS core release. I'm not sure when that is or how that stands. But, one thing that I have been thinking about is...

WFsections allows long articles, like "Articles" module. In fact that's what it is generally used for. I was thinking of merging my news into WFSections by creating a category in WFSections called News, and then subcategories under that. As for Soapbox, I think I remember hsalazar saying it was based somewhat on WFSection code, but, I'm not familiar enough with its features to speculate about how easy it would be to create a "SoapBox" category and enjoy similar functionality.

What I like about the "supermodule" approach is there is then one module to focus on maintaining. Perhaps one drawback is, I'm not sure how easy it is to have different sections use different templates. If each section and subsection can easily use different templates, then I can't think of a drawback.

I think having a main content module that can be used in a variety of presentations would allow resources to gather on that module, rather than spread across 15 modules with similar functionality.

So, yes, someone else is thinking like you.

I've seen this before when using right-aligned elements. I tried many things... like extra wrapper div tags to insulate the margins, etc., but no avail. Ulimately, I had to add more slack to the spacing between elements so that they were less sensitive to this 10 to 20 px swing of margins. (In other words, if I had 500px of space, I would load 480px of elements).

Also, this was with Firebird. I'm not sure if FireFox has the same issue. Like you, I was not having trouble with IE (which I test at IE 5.5).

What I did not try, but what might also work, is not using right-align. Also, I can't remember whether I explicitly set all of my padding and spacing to 0. That might also help. It might be alternating between default padding and inherited padding on your various refresh.

Finally, I would say avoid px font sizes if you can. Percentages are nice I think (allowing the user to control their font sizes).

If you don't like the "poor man" version above, you may find the following useful.

None of these are modules, but...

This will give you a fun sense of how zip codes are laid out:
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/

Here is the U.S. Census Bureau's Gazeteer Zip data... the last two columns in the ZCTA Zip Code files are Latitude and Longitude for each Zip Code:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html

This is sample source code (PHP and others) for determining distances between points:
http://www.zipcodeworld.com/samples/distance.php.txt


These guys have some GeoLocation things that may come in handy to someone:
http://www.geobutton.com/GeoDirection.htm


This is a zip code MySQL database with longitude and latitude and PHP location script, $45:
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/31782.html

Free tool called Zipdy (PostgreSQL)
http://www.cryptnet.net/fsp/zipdy/

My thought is the "poor man's" version of this is to simply find the first match in an alphabetized (numericalized?) list.

For example, if you type 10011

You may get an exact match of 10011.

If not, it could give you the first two or three matches it comes to.

For example if 10011 is not in the database, it keeps looking and finds 10019. To cover its bets it could also give the two items above 10019... perhaps 10005 and 10109. (Again just examples).

It would not be dead on, but, I have to think that given how Zip codes are laid out, it would be close enough most of the time.

I think what you are saying is...
You have a default XOOPS installation... no hacks made to it.

You check the box to "save your cookie".

When you return to Xoops, it does not appear that a cookie was saved, because your username is not remembered.

Now some questions:
You looked through your cookies directory, and you don't see a cookie from your web site?

When you go to other XOOPS sites, and try to use this feature, it works?

When you try to access your site from other machines, it still doesn't work?

Are you using a domain forwarder? Or a system that puts a frame around your site to mask the domain? What can you tell us about your domain?

I note that I don't even see that feature at the xoops.org web site any longer. What version of XOOPS are you using?

There is this entry in the wiki:
http://wiki.xoops.org/wakka.php?wakka=XoopsAutoLoginHack

Having said all that, maybe don't bother with it, since both IE and Mozilla have a feature in the browser to remember passwords built-in. So if a user really needs that, they already have it.

I checked it in Mozilla Firebird and IE 5.5... both look great.

The font size looks slightly larger in Firebird, but fine.

In both, the XOOPS banner in the middle column is independent of the column's width... so, if you don't maximize the window, the banner overlaps into other columns.

If you want to check additional browsers, take a look at
http://www.browsercam.com/

It's a great looking theme!

Is there any reason not to use WFSections for News?

Are there features in News that WFSections doesn't have?

Has anyone used WFSections this way... creating a news category, and then various subcategories under that?

Thoughts and observations welcome.

That's great. Good luck.

The XOOPS community is very international... so there's usually someone around to help 24 hours a day. Or, if they can't help, they can at least provide a break from pizza and soda while you recharge to take on troubleshooting tasks.

Really, though, I think you will find it easy to use. Welcome to Xoops.

Pretty sweet. I need to dig up that Red Dragon theme... there's some nice stuff there.