That's the wierd thing, I moved articles into the new section, thinking that was the problem. But the section still doesn't show up anywhere. It's like a black hole.

I'm not really getting any error messages either. That's the strange thing.

Here's what I'm doing:

Going to section management and create a new section with the following settings:

- Select HTML Document: wfsection_artindex.html
- All groups have access
- Section weight: 2 (I only have 1 other section)
- Section name: Business
- Display in Sections: Left default "-------" as I want it to be a main section.
- Section image: defaulted & n/a
- Category Byline text: Articles relating to business
- Strip HTML Tags?: no
- Category Page Header & Footer: left blank
- Add Section to Main menu?, Disable Html?, Disable Smilies?, Disable XOOPS Codes?, Disable Images?, Use breaks?: all set to no

I then go to my Document Management screen, select a article to edit, and go into it's edit mode. I re-assign the category for the article and save the article again.

I then go back to the main page of WF-Section (Library) and under the section listings at the bottom of the page there is still only one category listed.

I even updated the module using the module control panel thinking maybe the db needed freshing up but that didn't seem to help either. Weird. :(

Normally I would have jumped over to the WF-Projects site to ask this, but since they appear to be down for maintenance or something, I thought I'd ask here and hopefully someone can help.

I'm running XOOPS 2.0.9.3 with WF-Sections 2.01 and trying for the life of me to get new sections to appear in the module. I can create them, no problem. I can move documents into the new section via the admin panel, no problem. It's just these new sections *never* show up in either the "section Listings" on the main page of the module, or in the pulldown nav in the existing sections.

What's going on here? I'm not getting any PHP errors other than the already pre-defined variables errors that daibt got here. So what gives?

Anyone else wanna help? Anyone else think this might be a mod their site could use?

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They've been defending it for a while but it got to be too much. They're monitoring it closly to see if they can figure it out.

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Cool! Thanks I'll get right on installing it. Any tips or tricks? :)

Thanks Carnuke. :)

I checked it out. It's kinda what I was looking for, but from what I could see on his site (it's kind of confusing) It's just a "on this day" kind of mod. I was looking for more of a research/searchable/library kind of module. Something the users could interact with.

Thanks for showing me that one though, that site map mod could be useful. :)

sorry 'bout the late response. Been super duper busy.

I'm wondering if this is a common problem for XOOPS users. I had my first attack yesterday and it knocked the site offline. The Web host has had to remove the site from the web to kill the attacks.

Have you experienced and attack on your site, and if so what kind and how severe?

- If so, how did you remedy it?

- What kind of protection do we XOOPS webmasters have against this kind of thing?

- Is this a large enough problem for the XOOPS team to devote more time to making the system safer?


Don't get me wrong. I love Xoops. My site ran flawlessly for over a year before it got nailed. I regularily upgraded the security patches. And I'm going to continue to be a XOOPS member and user. But now that XOOPS is getting bigger, I'm concerned that we may be becoming a bigger target.

Should we focus more on security?

I just got nailed by one yesterday. Brought the server down. What are the best methods to protect a XOOPS site.

What are you guys using to prevent and stem off the attacks?

Yeah it doesn't look like there's much need for this kind of module outside of my site. lol.

I'd port it or create it myself except I have zero programming experience and even less time to learn how to program. I guess for now I'll just separate the timeline subjects into individual lists and hard code them. oh well.

So nobody could use something like this?

I wanted to toss this idea for a module out to the XOOPS community before I developed it any further. I don’t have any real programming skills so I am looking for someone ( or a team) who is willing and able to takes these ideas and create a real, stable & functioning module. It’s not a particularly complex module, I just lack the programming skills to make it myself. :)

I have the ideas sketched out on some notebook paper. The notes include logic flow, and interface designs. Before I commit more time to translating these notes to a more readable format (mock-up in HTML), I would like to know if there is enough interest in a module such as this to warrant further development.

The Timeline Module

Description
This module would allow for an easy-to-use historical timeline to be displayed. The user could view and entire timeline, sort & display by particular subject, search for a keyword(s), search before/after a specific date, or search within a user-specified time period.

The timeline would be displayed in a simple text format in a table with dates, event description and subject listed. A timeline like this allows for the user to narrow their focus on a particular area of study from a larger more complete & comprehensive timeline and create a custom timeline for their studies.

Possible users of this module
Any site that has a need to record & document important dates and events that may need to be refered to later.

Here is a link to the kind of site that would be able to use this module:
http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/timeline.html

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If you guys and gals think this module would be something you could either use or would like to develop, please let me know here in this thread. I can go into more detail if there is enough interest. Personally, I could use this module, but it’s not a life-or-death situation. If there is enough need for this module and someone is willing to make it a reality, I’d like to know so we can get the ball rolling.

Like I said before, I don’t think it’s a particularly complex module, I just don’t have the time, or experience to build it.


I'm looking forward to your thoughts and comments.