I use XOOPS for my church's website.

Multimenu is my friend.

www.omahachurchofchrist.org

Unfortunately, I am not the best at it, either, so there are a couple of mistakes and the poll is out of date.

Turns out that version 1.1 is the one I can get to work without a hitch. Go figure, 1.2 doesn't seem to like me.

It took a bit of doing to find it, but it worked fine. Hmmm. The guys that made it are dropping xoops, so who knows if they'll fix it.

But I'd still like to know if it's a simple fix. That's just me.

Thanks for the help.

Now, I wonder if it will work with iMenu... (I want more than 4 submenus)

That's what I thought, I someone had to get it working.

But I am having trouble generating any kind of error, so I don't know where to look to fix it. No SQL errors that I can find, but then again, that could be me forgetting something simple.

I turned on group permissions for all four menus. It installed correctly as far as I can tell, no error messages anywhere: it just won't let me add links.

iMenu works like a dream - I thought that might be an issue (i menu and multimenu not playing well together). I'll try the 1.1 version instead of 1.2.

I'm certain it's something simple I'm forgetting, I just have no idea because of a complete lack of error messages. Any ideas?

It will not let me add links. There is no error message, no anything.

It simply blinks the screen like its writing to the database and PRESTO no link added. When I say no link added, I mean on the administration page where it says "MULTIMENU 1" and is supposed to display the links in that section.

Am I missing something simple?

Thanks to both of you. Gee that was simple, I guess I was confusing blocks and modules. Because of previous website engines, I get them confused quite a bit.

Thanks a lot for the help.

Hey guys,

I want to create a message that says "Welcome to the website, blah blah blah" that is above the news module in the center. I read somewhere that it could be a block that is set up as center-center, but I guess I don't understand which block would be setup as centered. Is it a custom block?

Said another way, I'd like to have a message that never changes at the top center of my site, just like the XOOPS site.

Any help would be appreciated.

I noticed that for awhile that when I visit my site, it says that there are 5 or 6 users. Looking at the ip, two of them are mine.

I'm sure that I logout, but is mySql not closing connections?

Today, I'm locked out because of too many connections, but we've never had 100 people log in, there's only 24 members. Is there an issue with the code not closing connections?

I'm contacting the hosting company to reboot the MySQL server, but just curious if there is some code I can tweak. I have phpadmin, but even that tells me that there are too many connections.

Grrrr.

mainfile.php has pconnect set to 0 but that's about as far as my knowledge goes. Thanks in advance.

I tried to use PHP Website, and although it works great on my test box, the server didn't support PHP 4.2+ at the time.

Then I tried Envolution. Very easy to install. At the time, no themes, but I could never get a sense for how to make my home page look like I wanted it too. That was probably my ignorance, but it frustrated me a great deal.

I thought about postNuke, but didn't think it would be much better than Envolution. That is probably not a fair assessment.

I looked at Typo3 and said "Which way is up on this thing?"

I longed for the simplicity of Wordpress in a CMS form, you know? (I use WordPress on my personal site.)

Then I used PHP-Nuke for three months. It has been around forever and there are lots of folks just ready to help you.

UGH. It looked nice, but I had to login twice to enter information on my own, once as an admin, once as a user. Not only that, it has so many images that I was using almost all my alloted space and there was no information. On top of that, I could also never create another admin account. I think I could have cleared up some of these things, but little things like this kept happening.

The only real issue was NO USEFUL WORKING CALENDAR. All the times were wrong and there was a good calendar that had a server time zone offset.

I do have to say that it was straightforward to install and there are lots of modules. It is fun to play with and was pretty impressive.

So, I switched to XOOPS after realizing that I still couldn't use Envolution, PostNuke or any other PHP Nuke fork. PHP Website didn't have some of the features of XOOPS and although I could naviagte a bit in Typo3 and ezpublish, I decided that this looked the best.

I haven't regretted it. Security is easier to setup, it is straightforward to administer. THE CALENDAR WORKS RIGHT. In fact, I have two calendars, a tiny one to track the use of the church office and the other for events and happenings. 7dana.com has a great red theme that looks good.

I still have to come up with a good logo and I haven't entered categories for News and set up a couple of modules, but it is working pretty well. Thanks for a system I enjoy using.