spgster wrote:

Currently the existing menu system I have is JS based and uses a php script to load up the links from the DB. All of the pages on the system are dynamic and are stored in the DB, editable by site admins only (using a system that I wrote very badly!)

I need to find a way of displaying a truely dynamic menu, I am not worried if I can only get vertical menus to show ina side bar, but I need to have multi levels (IE: MENU|SUB MENU 1| SUB MENU 2) and if possible be able to link each item to a page within the system (ideally dynamically)

I have looked at MultiMenu but that cannot do what I want..


Secondly If you look at the teams pages, you'll see the style is the same for each page, but the data is relative to each team. Again this is dynamic and moderated by the site admin tool.

Here I have looked at SmartSections and that is just not going to do what I want. All I need is to display a link in a menu to a page that allows me to add PHP content I guess.

A menu that lets me build links based on PHP scriping would be the best though!

I need to be able to create a custom page that can look up data from the DB, but doesn't have stuff that is present with news pages etc.

I am starting to wonder if the XOOPs tool is best for this type of website. I love the way we can set up layouts etc, but I am not sure if I can get all the content into the XOOPs structure in a similar way to what I have now..

I really would appreciate some help from you guys..

Steve

phppp wrote:
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seth_sd wrote:

It's all so confusing and I don't understand why DJ doesn't comunicate. The xoopsinfo thing just strikes me as confusing and unnecessary. This whole thing could be done under the .xoops.org domain with LDAP and nobody would need to register anywhere or go to different sites to do different things.

Sorry for the confusions.
The project is not managed or by one single individual, it is worked on by project teams and project council.
However, I would like to express my personal opinion, more exactly, to repeat: I am strongly loyal to the XOOPS Project, I would prefer to see all official project sites under the same top domain of xoops.org


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Following this project has become mind boggling. We have these teams, many comprised of people that are new to the project (not a bad thing mind you) reinventing the wheel. Migrating to new servers, adding the sub-domains, doing a site redesign and getting on with the latest release should be well on their way to being done. Instead we're still debating all this stuff again and again!

Along with teams establishment, the works are going to be carried out by corresponding teams.
As you can see, the community coordinator team and design team have been established with their reports.
If you have any suggestion or any task you would like to help, please contact the teams or ask help from the coordinator team.

The teams are looking forward to your participation.

The idea of a XOOPS advisory team is excellent.

I am the Director of Information Technology for a publicly traded medical device firm in San Diego,CA. We made a strategic decision to use XOOPS as our Intranet Portal well over 3 years ago and am very interested in its continued success. In addition, we have made Open Source software a critical part of our IT strategy by moving all of our core applications and storage to Linux.

I have over 10 years of experience planning and implementing IT projects ranging from ERP to Storage to Network Infrastructure.

XOOPS is one of the best Open Source products I have ever come across. The news of the last couple of days is an excellent development and I would be happy to help in any way that I can.

Hopefully, my experience and willingness to use XOOPS strategically in a corporate environement allows me to contribute in a meaningful way as XOOPS heads in a new direction.

The advisory team proposal by PHPPP is exactly what I am capable of offering the community if you'll be kind enough to have me.

Thank You,
Seth Miller

gtop00 wrote:
Thanks Bender.

It is some weeks now that I am repeating the same thing.

Hopefully the new management will understand it.

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if Onakazu were to take back xoops.org then the whole thing would be a disaster

I do not believe that he will or wants to. He could have done it a long time ago.
Anyway, I guess that somebody keeps a backup of the site...

Agreed, but that's a funny thing: despite about 15 serious attempts to get in touch with the current registrant of the xoops.org domain -onokazu who started the XOOPS project with a few enthusiastic people and who now is a leading part of the XOOPS Cube project- the XOOPS Foundation hasn't been able to arrange the transfer of the domain to the Foundation as to secure it for the XOOPS project and its community. All attempts made by several members of the Foundation Board have been stoically ignored, even if the e-mails have been read and the read notification have been recieved by us. So the request hasn't been actively denied, just ignored. This is a fact, not any type of judgement. The Foundation really wants the transfer tho

BlueStocking wrote:
Today, we encourage...
Tomorrow, we insist...

Not exactly the timeframe but very close.

I have asked for your help in making this move a reality as quickly and painlessly as we can.

For that we need ALL of the community participation to give the best they can give to xoopsinfo in the way of helping those we sucessfully route to that domain.

Today is not to early to start...

Thanks,
Lets start 'really working' together.

Catzwolf wrote:
I personally see much of this as knee jerk reaction to many of the problems that would not be around if the wheels of XOOPS else where were in the 'correct' motion. As I have said before, don't simply paint over the cracks, find the root of the problem at the foundations and fix that first.

Much of the real problems here at XOOPS have now been obscured by confusion, conjecture and hearsay.

You can make as many rules and regulations as you like, in some case I have found that this could in fact make situations worse. Your changes apply to the effect and not the cause of the problems here at XOOPS and until this is noticed nothing will change here.

I am in the view that XOOPS needs a good strong leader to pull XOOPS out of the hole of despair that it is in now. Not a leader like Skalpa who did nothing but further the issues with his style of non leadership, but someone who can see the problems and produce solutions in real terms. Right now I see XOOPS heading for another explosion and it may happen sooner than later.

We are one month into a new leadership, but in real terms I believe we are no further forward. Quite the contrary. If it has taken one month just to put together a 'Council' together, then how long will it take just to get the simplest changes required to move XOOPS back on track?

Xoops have been unfortunate to have had a leadership that did nothing to further XOOPS and let problems persist and did nothing to fix them. The sad fact is that you get bad as well as good leaders in life, and XOOPS has managed to get more than their fair share of them. But, I say to those people who say they would prefer a council to a 'leader' is to look around at other successful projects that are around today.

If XOOPS had a strong leader who understood the needs and wants of a community and put the community first before themselves I believe we would not be having any of the problems currently at Xoops.

Cause and effect. We are trying to fix internal hemorrhaging with a sticky plaster and sympathy and until someone has the foresight to make the first cut, we won’t fix the real problems.

Anyway, that's my opinion.

ATB

Catz