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anyways thanks for all your helps. i figured out the include code and got my way around. i dont have to use the freecontents and other modules to include the contents into XOOPS and i can make different blocks to catagorize my links, but then not sure if it's save or not. anyways, here's the code i used if anyone is interested in trying it out

include('mainfile.php');
include('header.php');
$xoopsOption['show_rblock'] = 1;

$page = $_GET['page'];
$ext = ".php";
$email = "your email addy for 404"; //for 404 error purpose
$includepath = "contents/";
$filepath = $includepath.$page.$ext;

if(file_exists($filepath))
{
include($filepath);
} else {
print ("<br><b>404</b><br>Sorry but this page does not exist. Click <a href=\"http://www.gamerz-place.net/xoops\">here</a> to go back to the main page. If you have any question email the webmaster <a href=\"mailto:$email\">here</a>.");
}

include('footer.php');

now i can just customized my own blocks with my own links. i just gotta save that code as a .php file (i saved it as main.php) in the XOOPS folder and create a sub subfolder, in this case contents, and just put all my content files into that folder. then in the customized blocks just used links such as main.php?page=therequestedcontent

here's my site as an example if u want to see what i meanhttp://www.gamerz-place.net/xoops/

hope this will help some of you guys out.

section is not what i'm looking for since i want the links to be in blocks on the side of the layout. as for imeun i can't seem to be able to install it. i uploaded to the modules folder and it doesn't show up in the Modules Administration.

the thing is that i think they only put all the links in one block. i want to catagorize my contents into different ones hehe. i'm kinda picky about these things.

i have about 40 pages of plain contents (just plain text and some pictures) so i dont want to open every single one of them and add the include code in. i am wondering if i can just an addition include code which allow me to call contents by using content.php?page=othercontents

To include my own customized pages into the center of the layout i used the following code and saved it as content.php

include("mainfile.php");
include("header.php");
OpenTable();
include("myfile.php");
CloseTable();
include("footer.php");

but if i want my link to be something likehttp://mydomain.com/content.php?page=othercontents i used this

include("mainfile.php");
include("header.php");
OpenTable();
include("$page.php");
CloseTable();
include("footer.php");

but doesn't seem to work. for example i have the file othercontents.php and when i go tohttp://mydomain.com/contents.php?page=othercontents only the layout shows and the content doesn't. can anyone please help me out. thanks