Hi

I have an established website with probably about 80 articles. I use the Article Management System for news (this is the place I am most cpncerned with the short URLs).

Do the hacks available on this website work with AMS? Does anyone have any experience of implementing them with AMS? Are any problems caused by having the pages already indexed by search engines using the standard URL?

Alternatively, is there a version of XOOPS existing/available shortly that has the short-url stuff in it?

Many thanks

Neil

When I first installed XOOPS I had exactly the same feeling! Basically if you have come from using a static HTML website it is all a bit confusing at first.

If you activate additional modules via the modules administration page you will get an additional page for each module. One module that most sites would use is the news module.

Once you have activated the news modules you can then write articles which, although they are not "pages" as far as the XOOPS administration is concerned, can have links to them from navigation blocks (e.g. recent articles block). In this way you can build up the information in your site and get rid of that empty look that you get when you first start.

There are XOOPS modules (e.g. cjcontent)that you can download that will "wrap" static HTML and enable it to be presented as a page in Xoops, take a look through the module repository for these.

Hope this helps!

That is what I thought I was doing (within the cloned template)- I have to confess that I know nothing about PHP (although I have programmed in other langauges) so I may be doing something very stupid!

At any rate, it doesn't work with the cache on. Any ideas

I have been trying out some updates to my site - www.reachtogether.co.uk and the way it works with Google adds. I wanted to stop the adds being displayed when I am using/updating the site as this distorts the Adsense statistics (especially important since I haven't got that much traffic yet). I'm fine with the side-bar adverts that are in their own blocks - these can be switched on for anonymous and off for registered/webmaster groups.

The problem is with adverts that I have embedded in the AMS Article and Index templates - these I have tried to switch off using some basic PHP code (checking to see if the user is admin). If the cache is switched on this approach works for the ads at the end of the article, but not for the ones in the Index. The index either continues to display the adds or not depending on what was saved in the cache.

Is there a way round this, how can I tell the XOOPS system not to use the cache for this template? I am aware that I can switch it off for the whole module but I do not want to do that.

Many thanks

Neil