I have been searching for a module or some code snipit to add one or more file upload fields to a form so users can submit files with text in a form.

Any ideas? I have not found anything that seems viable.

You are absolutely right peekay you need to have some kind of an agreement along with a set of terms. PayPal is an excelent option as well. My terms talk about deadlines will not be kept if the client does not provide the required information in a timely manner. I also talk about what is considered out-of-scope work and what the additionally hourly fee will be for that. Then in the process I simply say "Yes, we can do that but that would be considered out-of-scope from OUR AGREEMENT". That puts them in their place quickly and sends messages that you will not be taken advantage of. If the REALY want that they will pay for it.

I typically ask for 1/2 up front and the balance due just prior to launch or monthly if it is a big job that is going to take months or they drag thier feet. Typically I collect the balance a time of the final draft approval. If they nit pick or take forever to move forward I bill them for the completed work not covered under the retainer or down payment. Then if they continue to drag on, I at least get paid and can move on.

If I do not get the balance I shut it down. Since most of my clients host with me that makes it much easier. I also do an up front FREE consultation, usually an hour that I eventually factor into the bid so if it is accepted I get paid for that time. Then I do a fixed bid. I find this, most of the time, properly sets the expectations right from the start and they don;t have to worry about a creaping openended bill.

If you have concerns about a particular client, document your conversations in a follow-up email to them. As per our conversation blab la bla we will be modifying our agreement thusly…bla bla bla. That sends the message that you are on top of things and will not let them assume anything. And most importantly you WILL be paid for the work you do. This eliminates the resentment many of us carry!

This is a great conversation to have and I am glad to see this happening. Our business is fraught with risk and I feel I have found, for me, the right mix to spread that burden evenly with the client.

I hope I have not sounded too preachy, this was a HUGE issue for me and took me a long time to get to this place. Implementing these procedures and policies have REALLY helped. I make more money and everyone is happier. I hope this helps others formulate a better strategy for having your hard work valued.

I have Xpress 2.04 (WordPress for Xoops) installed for a blog and would like to add some code that will allow readers to print or email specific pages to friends like what is available in the News and AMS modules.

Noticing that the code is the same in both other modules I thought that simply pasting the code in the correct page would do the trick. I was wrong! I pasted in:

NOTE: I took out the leading <'s and trailing >'s for each line of the following so I could get the code to display in this post.
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a href="print.php?storyid=<{$story.id}"

imgsrc="images/print.gif" border="0" alt="<{$lang_printerpage}>" /></a

a target="_top" href="<{$mail_link}>"

img src="images/friend.gif" border="0" alt="<$lang_sendstory}>" /></a

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In the wordpress/templates/wprdpress/comments.php file but it doesn’t work and I am not really experienced enough to know how to figure out what is wrong or how to fix it. I suspect perhaps I put it in the wrong file??? Not to mention perhaps a syntax error considering the following.

With the Print function I get the following browser error:

“Page could not be found” with this URL ../wordpress/print.php?storyid=<{$story.id}>

With the Email function I get the following browser error:

Bad Request (Invalid URL)
with this URL ../wordpress/<{$mail_link}>

I would appreciate some guidance

OMG! That client sure takes the cake alright. I would politely send a thank you for the cookies and include an invoice for your time. If you wanted to provide a "discount" put it on there too so he can REALLY SEE the true cost of what he got.

I would expect at least a $500 - 1,000 for all that. Especially if the guy has money. If you don't draw the boundry really clearly and early, everyone who is the slightest bit dysfunctional and/or unethical WILL take advantage of you. My belief is that we teach people how to treat us in many spoken and unspoken ways. I have personally learned this lesson a long time ago the hard way!!!

Then after the check comes. You can decide to say Sorry I am booked right now or work out a PRE PAY Support plan.

Good luck!

I will try that Bassman Thanks! I did notice on another post that to fix the NewBB that you had to change the $cols value in Xoops/include/xoopscodes.php and that seemed to work.

Howerver, it sounds like it would be cleaner, espically when upgrade time comes, to make the change in css where possible.

Hey thanks that worked great for all form except the NewBB new topic form. I looked at the class for that module and the there were no such variables. I played with a few values but they did not make the text field any narrower.

Any suggestions?

I had someone make me a fixed width theme and all is well with that except for some forms that I think are dynamically generated???

The submit forms for Weblinks, News, NewBB & WordPress are too wide and also making the text wrap on my main menu. I have not been able to find any templates for these modules to edit so I am wondering how to go about making some of the form fields not as wide.

I am also using AMS but with the Kiovi editor and that is the only form that is NOT too wide and des not deforms the menu, other than the contact form.

I would like to know how to edit the form field widths and not alter the amount of characters they can accept OR, if it would fix the issue, figure out a way to use the Kiovi editor All of these modules like AMS. The few articles I have seen on this have not been helpful or I just do not understand something?

Either way I would appreciate some help
Thanks

I have the Kiovi editor working with my AMS module and I like it better than the default editor. I would like to get it working, if possible, with the following modules as well: Weblinks Submit, News Submit etc. The Editor in WordPress can stay the same or use Kiovi either way with that one is fine.

There are two main reasons I want to do this.

1. For consistency

2. Because I had a custom fixed width theme made and the main menu gets narrower and wraps menu text with the standard forms. This is because the many of the fields are way too wide for my theme. AND... I have not found an easy to edit the field size since these forms seem to be dynamically created as I am not finding any templates to edit.

I posted this same message in Beginers Corner after not getting any response here after about 5 days. There jensclas suggested the following procedure for cloning a block. It worked great!

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=51993&forum=7

That worked great! Thanks! The procedure brought a diffrent approch than what I was originally thinking I need to to do and solved my problem very nicely.