Thanks. Sometimes I have problems with php mail but indeed not all of the time. I'll try meddle around with this some more.

If anyone else has more info on the sendmail thing I'll still be happy to hear about it.

After migrating my site to a new server, the sendmail option to mail users doesn't work anymore at all. I've consulted the support desk of the provider which hosts the server, and they say that I can't use sendmail anymore through the exec() option, but only through the mail() option. I'm a bit of a noob with these things, so I don't know if I should change these options somewhere, and how to do it.

Do I need to check or update any PHP script to do this?

Hi all,

the Top Downloads block of the MyDownloads or wmpdownloads module which you can put on your home page only shows 10 files, the 10 most popular ones. However, I've just added 12 downloadable files and want them to have an equal chance to be clicked upon from the homepage. If 2 are missing they will have a smaller chance of getting clicked upon which will keep them out of the top 10 even more!

Which block or template or maybe php file should I try to hack if I wish to show more or all of the available files in that particular block?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

J.

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Is there anyway to hack or ajust a page setting or db setting, to raise this value of 10%? I don't have a lot of logins on my site and the Who's Online is only shown for registered users so I run the risk of having these users sitting there for days without going away.

Hi,

I'm just beginning to learn about RSS feeds and was checking my backend.php, when I found out and became concerned about the presence of my full e-mail address in that RSS feed, in this manner:

<managingEditor>user@mywebsite.org</managingEditor>
<webMaster>user@mywebsite.org</webMaster>

I'm very concerned that the presence of these addresses will generate spam in my mailbox in time, as harvesting bots may pick this up. Is this true?

Is there anyway I can hide these two handles from my RSS feed or in another way influence this whilst still being able to use my email address as stored in Xoops, by for example receiving mail from my members?

I'm using XOOPS 2.0.9.2 and just upgraded the News module to 1.3.

Thank you,

Joost.

Hi everybody,

I'm using the anti-direct-linking mode on my XOOPS site with the wmpdownloads module. However, some people who have their .mp3 mime type settings in Windows to set a direct play (such as QuickTime) can only directly play an mp3 tune in this way. When they right-click the download and choose 'Save as...', they can only download visit.html which is the anti-direct-linking warning page.

How can I stop this from happening and allow people to download my mp3's without turning the anti-direct-linking option off?

Thank you in advance,

Joost.
www.joostmusic.nl

This worked, thanks! Took me a while that there was an additional apostrophe in my intro text (It's free) so it wouldn't work, but after a trailing backslash everything was fine.

If anyone's interested: www.joostmusic.nl

Hi all,

I try to install a new (PHP) block in which I'll show different text according to if a user is logged in or not. I looked into some of the forum posts and so far I came up with this:



However, this does not work; it always displays 'Register now!'. How do I fix this?

Hi all.

I've been experimenting with XOOPS for about a week now and generally I like what I see. I do have some common questions about security, though. First question is quite general, other questions handle more about different download modules and the way they link to content.

1. How much risk remains in leaving several of the folders in the homedir (such as uploads, templates_c) world writable? Can people in any way damage the contents of such a folder (i.e. deleting files) by using just html or php? Can people upload files while circumventing the whole XOOPS php system? And what about the security of the MySQL database?

2. In all downloads modules I've seen so far there is not really any explanation on how files, only available for download by certain members (i.e. wfDownloads, wmpDownloads) are secure from people typing in the direct link in the URL bar. I've tested it and what I already thought was true: the files are direct downloadable. Even though the easy security is never to expose the real URL anywhere and maybe hide downloads by placing them somewhere like /ergaegae/super/secret/download/folder/file.zip but maybe someone knows of more radical solutions, like maybe having XOOPS work with .htaccess files? Can anyone enlighten?

By the way, I'm just as happy with links to elaborative resources which I can dig myself into as with full answers in this forum. I don't want to be the newbie who asks the same question for the zillionth time. ;)

Take care,

J.