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brucewhealto
Uninstalling modules - removing uninstalled modules

I seem to have some modules that didn't upload correctly. I used the same copy of the module that worked fine in one installation but then in another it just doesn't work. When I go to install it there is no icon and there is a message that it is no loaded correctly. Then there are other modules that upon installation I start seeing garbage on the screen. For example if one was to look at a file in a text editor and it wasn't text one would see various characters that are not recognizeable as characters of any language. I get a screen full of such characters and some other garbage. So, if I've installed the module and that is happening then I can't just take it off the server and out of the modules directory, correct? I have to uninstall the module and then remove it from the server. Hopefully that will do it. I just don't see an uninstall option. If there is something else I need to do to clean up the display please let me know. I did check with the technical support for my web hosting service and they seem to have determined that the installation of XOOPS is good and the latest stable installation. talk about frustrating! To have a site that did look good suddenly become such a mess. The whole top of the screen area is filled with these garbage characters... and something about Flash MX 2004 Schemas, why I'm seeing that I don't know! I mean is there some Flash designed into the some modules that do not seem to indicate that this is the case? Or is everyone reading this just as confused as I am about what is going on?
Thanks in advance,
Bruce
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brucewhealto
Re: Which gallery module is the best?

How do I find that module xcgallery? I'm not seeing it listed with the downloads here.
Thanks,
Bruce
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ali44 wrote:
I think xcgallery is the best, the most powerful, extremely integrated with xoops. The second best is xoopsgallery but it's far behind compare to xcgal.
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brucewhealto
Re: Newbie q: blog with xoops?

Can I ask what web log module you used? What might one use to compare different web log modules? I mean how can we compare different ones to find one that we'll like? What features can be used for comparison purposes? There is the News Feature on the site and then there is Word Press that I know exists for XOOOPS, but there are others. How might one decide? Am I saying it right? I'm looking for an idea of features comparisons. things one blog has that another doesn't or how well one blog handles a feature or in what manner it handles it versus the next web log module?
Thanks in advance,
Bruce
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bocks wrote:
I have my site running webLog. You can have a look here :

http://portal.intowesee.net/modules/weblog/

I've made some modifications to the template so that it looks nicer.
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brucewhealto
Re: Is XOOPS for me?

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brash wrote:
Hi cre8d,


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* Categorised blog for the front page with comments. Archives by week/month/year. (I don't really get if "News" in your documentation = "Blog"). Ability to post to the future.

Never got into a specific BLOG module myself, I just use the News module for this. It has archives by month/year, but not week as far as I am aware. News 1.2 is just out so it may, but I'm not sure. You can set articles to be published at a certain date and time (down to the minute) with the news module as well.
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I can let my users create their own blogs, using the News Module Correct? Thus there can be an unlimited # of different News Stories aka blogs?
Next question, anyone used Word Press or Popnupblog to compare them? They are extension that I added to my site.
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[quote]
* Strong forum (how good is XOOPs one compared with Invasion?) with moderators

This was actually one of my sticking points with XOOPS originally. The forum module included with XOOPS (NewBB) while perfectly functional, is very basic, and looks somewhat lacking when compared to Invision or phpBB. There are ports of the phpBB and Invision boards for Xoops, but this is not officially supported by the XOOPS team. The great news is though that Predator has been working like crazy on beefing up NewBB for Xoops, and once it is released in the core it will be a truly great forum module. I personally woudn't advise using the XOOPS ports of the Invision or phpBB forum modules as it wil only complicate your upgrade path. I did for a while but moved back to NewBB.
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I thought the documentation said that there was a way to include invision board. I seem to remember reading that after I found a more extensive documentation set beyond the visial introductory tutorial.
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* FAQ

Yes, there are modules about specifically designed around providing FAQ functionality.
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This could be the way to make the site user friendly, correct? Create a block that tells people to look in the FAQ to learn.
I understand also we can rename the menu items. We don't have to use News the default name. Is that correct?

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* Integrated Gallery

Yes, again you have the choice of several here. I use XcGallery which is based on the Coppermine 1.10 core.
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Is that an extention available for download?
Secondly, can I let my users create and upload photographs for a gallery? They would need more than just viewing permission ot the gallery or module, but administrative permission, correct???


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* Not too many files to edit to get the design looking how I want it to.

Should be good here too. Unless of course you consider 1 file too many . You should just have to edit the theme.html file of your selected theme to get your site looking pretty.
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explain please? We download theme.html and edit it on our local system to get the look we want?


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* Ability to greatly simplify the features offered (lots of community sites are overwhelming and complicated for new people)

You can make your site as simple or as complicated as you like. The choice is upto the webmaster.
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Again, what would you suggest that might make this easier? So, far I've thought of a FAQ with a suggestion that people check that out first. Maybe if all the modules were not on the same page that one sees when arriving at the site, can that be done? Can I put sections of pages on different pages and make it easy for people to figure out how to find different sections?
Let's suppose I have four sections and I want the user to see those different pages across the top and then see different modules on different pages/sections? How hard would that be to do?
I welcome other suggestions as well, please. What else might make it easier for my user without them having to read a long FAQ? I want something more intuitive, like my.yahoo.com which I'd like to suggest people can leave behind.

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* Not too hard to be able to add my own PHP code into the site templates

Nope, you just have to clone the default template from the template management system in XOOPS and you can start editing right there and then from within Xoops.
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I'm sorry you lost me there? Please clarify what you mean by clone the default template?


Hope these this was of some use

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Yes, very helpful despite the additional questions.

Couple other questions.
1) Can users upload a photograph or several that is associated with them? This is for an alumni site and I'd like to have that ability to do that, have a back then photo and a now photo or more recent photo. Can a module be suggested to offer that for users?
2) Can additional fields be requested for each user? Again, the alumni site, year of graduation is a desired field. I want to allow insertion of this on registration and then the ability to search by alumni year of graduation?
3) Can a person be sent an email for two conditions, one a personal message on the site, and two a direct email from the site by another user, but without giving out there email address? I clicked on a search of members bringing up my own name and selected email. What happened is that my email program opened up and the email address was revealed... same with other users. Is there a way to perhaps send a message to the user at their regular email address that they have a personal message (or whatever pm stands for (lol)) and to come check it out?
For example, I see when I come here that I have email in my inbox, can I have that notification go to my main email? and will I be able to help my users do that too in an easy to understand fashion.
Thanks,
Bruce
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brucewhealto
User details and protecting email addresses

I'm wondering if something can be done as far as the information or pictures that can be associated with a user. I'd like to move over a personals site to work within XOOPS completely and to move my high school alumni page into XOOPS. Using the latter as an example, I'd like to get the users to have an option of listing their graduating class. Then I'd want to allow others to search by year of graduation. That is important for persons planning a reunion, obviously. So, when a person registers and then decides to update their information, or when they register, can I have an extra field or extra fields that are customized? How would I do that and allow searches on that field?

Secondly, for security reasons, it is good that a user can indicate whether or not his or her email is available to others. So, I tried out sending an email to someone and it right away opened my email client with their email address filled in and now visible. Granted I have webmaster privilidge but is there a way to have the user get an email that shows up as username@mydomain.com? I want to find a way to allow them to get email without giving out their email address. Surely this could be done more elegantly then opening up the email client and filling in their email. We could use a form and the message would be emailed to them with a from address of userid@mydomain.com The private message isn't too useful if a person isn't informed that they have a message to go check. Granted they might want to indicate that they should be notified but that might slip someones mind or make them think they are going to get spam or various other reasons might incline them to avoid accepting notifications as they occur. My feeling is that if they had a message to check they would want to be notified, even if they selected not to receive such notifications. Ideally people come to the site every day and get the notice that they do or do not have messages, like my box here is telling me that I do have messages. I think I did realize that I had set the notification to only by personal message and thus never was getting messages that someone left a response for me.
Many boards have that feature where the person will get an email that says they have a message waiting.
In summary, can custom fields be added for a user and then a searc based on those fields be done? can a user get an email even if they choose not to reveal their actual email address? The same question applies to the personal messaging. Can they get a notice in their regular email that they check every day saying that they got a message to check? I think after a while people might come to the site more often, maybe?
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brucewhealto
Re: Member Photo uploads etc. Please help

Cannot a member upload a photo with their profile?
What about the downloads section, who can put things in there to download and how? I also have the module - 3rd party perhaps, KB Downloader. I click on that and do not see anything, just a blank screen.
Isn't there a way to also let users upload photos for the gallery of photographs?
And are there any good blog tools out there for XOOPS, where a registered user can start his or her own blog and allow comments or not. I am thinking that perhaps Word Press might do this but I haven't had experience with it.

For forums, does that have to be setup by the administrator/webmaster or can registered users have control over creating such as the need may arise?
Bruce
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brucewhealto
Re: Member Photo uploads etc. Please help

I did figure out part of the answer here in that I was able to give members the ability to upload photographs. I'm not sure if the permissions was just for photographs or for more than just that. However, now that my users have that right how do they do that? I can't figure out where a person would be able to upload a photograph with their own user information. Or a photograph that might be added to an image gallery, should that be an area on a site? I guess in terms of content, the only thing that can be uploaded by a user is a photograph that would go with their profile/listing/membership details. I just can't figure out how the new user coming into the site will be able to do this. If I can't figure it out my users won't be able to do this.

And about the forums, can I allow users to create a forum?
Can they create a blog? I guess using the News feature users can submit stories for review and acceptance.
Can they create chat rooms of their own?
I'm very confused and don't know what to do.
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brucewhealto
Member Photo uploads and other Priviledges

I'm wondering if members can upload pics of themselves. The reason being that I have a couple communities where this would be great, an alumni web site and a frienship finder/dating/singles site. Is that feature built in or is there a module one can add?
Also can members upload content to the Downloads section?
Can I allow that for registered users I should ask?
Other important things are whether or not I can let users start their own blogs, guess that would have to do with the type of blog being used, wouldn't it? Such as WordPress or Popnupblog (strange name)...
Can I let users start their own irc rooms?
On another site which is oriented toward creative expression such as writing, graphic designs, multimedia, etc. Can I let users upload say a flash design? Perhaps even with an approval process, where they might have to have their content approved before the content can be viewed and kept on the site.
Let me know, please, if these would be seperate 3rd party modules that I would need to add or if this is built in.
Bruce
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brucewhealto
Re: Blocks with images - Please help!

As an important issue to resolve in this matter, I would like to post a paypal link on my site. I assume I would put it in a block, correct? There will be an image and a link.
Thanks,
Bruce
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brucewhealto
Re: Blocks with images - Please help!

Yes, there is the meetup.com site. Let me pull up a specific url and image link. Ok, what I added was from this page a subdomain of meetup.com - full address is:
http://homeless.meetup.com/tellfriends/ Ok, so I looked down and tried the most basic image and link. I did put that in a block which shows up as a custom block. the marker for the picture is there but the image is not. Maybe it is that site's link to the picture not being so good or it's a .png file so that might be a problem too. Heres what I put in the block ->
<a href="http://homeless.meetup.com/"><img border="0" src="http://img.meetup.com/img/logo/med/h/homeless.png"></a>

Thanks,
Bruce
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