Thank you all for your help, it is much appreciated. I will definitely give the suggestions a try and go from there.

So I have the visual introduction and operations guide printed out and was reading through them. I have XOOPS set up on my test server and have even added a few modules.

However, my main index page is still blank. I have XOOPS set up on the test server so you get to it by using http://localhost/xoops. When I go there, I see the menus and can log in, everything, but there is no content there.

Ive looked around in the manuals about how to get something there and there are no 'beginners steps' for this. I was able to add some content by using a custom block, but is that the only way to add content (pages) to the site?

In the visual introduction it talks about the news module as being one of the 'official' modules, and the way it describes it, it would seem to be the thing I need to use. However, there is no news module in XOOPS by default. Is there a particular one I need to use?

I did install the SmartSection module, but I havent quite figured all of that out yet.

Anyway, sorry to have to ask such a silly question, but I tried finding the answer on my own, but I just ain coming up with it.

Okay, I think I found the problem to why this was occurring.

When I was downloading modules and unpacking them, I would drill down to the folder that had all the files for the modules copy all the files, then go to the modules directory in xoops, make a folder and then paste all the files in there.

I would then go to the admin side to the modules section to install the module. Even on the ones from the new repository were doing this.

What I found, was that I was making folders named differently than they were in the package, and in those cases I would get the module not found error.

For instance, ZenCart for XOOPS when you unpack it has

Zen_Cart_Xoops_0.3_1.3 > modules > shop. Inside the shop folder is all the files for the module. I was going to my module directory in XOOPS and creating a folder called zencart. When I did this, I got the error. I deleted that folder, then just tried copying the folder 'shop' to the module directory. I no longer got the error Module Not Found.

Apparently the module is tied to that specific folder name as in ever case I created a folder with a different name than what was in the package, I got the error. Every time I copy the folder from the package to the module directory, the install worked without a hitch.

Hope this helps someone out.

Yeah, I discovered that the main files needed could be several folders down depending on how it was packaged.

I did switch to php4 and that did not help. I did go to the link jensclas provided for selecting modules. Though the modules are harder to find because there are 183+ pages of them there rather than the categorized listing, I have got a couple of them to work from there. However, I have also found a couple that still give me the same error message. Im trying to figure out the common denominator to see what is going on but I would suspect at this point that it is a matter of compatibility at this point.

I not only checked out the documentation, but printed all of them out and put them in a binder. I browsed through the FAQs but didnt expect to find anything there regarding the No Module Found error, perhaps I should have checked a bit more if it is indeed there.

I did use the search function, as that is how the post I linked to in my opening post, but after trying out what it suggested the issue was still not resolved, so I posted here.

I read the ===Please read before posting=== here in this sections which is where I found the template that I included along with my post, but I was not aware of the 'How to select modules for your site' as I was not aware also that the Module repository was closed and had not updated.

I did mention that yesterday was my first day with Xoops, so I do have some things to learn and am trying to make the effort. I will be reading the manuals tonight and continue to play around though.

Thanks for the info.

I guess I should have clarified something. Im trying this out on my test server as it were on my laptop runing Linux. So I could always revert my PHP back to 4 or something like that, in fact Im using XAMPP for my test server set up and I know for a fact there is a command that will allow me to switch between v4 and v5. My actual web host uses v4 something, so I should be good there.

Thanks for the welcome and the comments on the site. I hope to have it converted over to XOOPS before too long. Joomla is good, and the core system works really well. Ive been using it for a little over a year now, but there is very little integration with major open source apps like ZenCart, phpAdsNew, phpList and so on. So that has prompted me, as mentioned earlier, to look for a more integrated solution and XOOPS seems to be all that.

At any rate I'll check the file permissions, and I'll switch the test server over to php4 and see if that helps. Thanks for the welcome and the suggestions.

XOOPS Version: 2.0.16
Module Name/Version: ZenCart, SiteStatistice v0.45, so far
PHP Version: 5.20
MySQL Version: 5.0.27
Web Server Software (Apache/IIS/Other): Apache 2.2.3
Operating System: Linux, FedoraCore v6
Theme you are using: default
Custom template: No
PHP Debug Messages: See below
MySQL Debug Messages:
Smarty Debug Messages:
A full description of the issue:


Hello all. I downloaded XOOPS today and have been trying to play around with it some to get used to it. I currently use Joomla for my websites, but lately the integration of other open source stuff that I use has been lacking and has left me to use external links and wrappers and such to integrate web apps that I use to get it all to work and look at least like it belongs.

That has prompted me to look for other CMS solutions and after spending the majority of the day looking for other CMS's and trying demo's etc., I decided XOOPS seemed to be a much better solution for me. I downloaded it an installed it without a hitch, but I ran across an issue trying to install a few modules.

My first module (phpAdsNew) went fine. I then tried the ZenCart module (both apps I already use) and I got a Module not found. Thinking I may have done something wrong or the module itself was missing something, I tried another module, a statistics module and got the same thing.

So I did a search and came up with this thread:

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=56611&forum=2&post_id=250337#forumpost250337

but I dont see any empty module folders and they all have xoops_version.php files in them. I turned on debugging and I get the following error message:

Notice: Undefined variable: msgs in file /modules/system/admin/modulesadmin/main.php line 179

Im not familiar enough with XOOPS yet to know what exactly I should be looking for and Im not exactly a PHP expert.


Sorry my first post here has to be this, but I figured I would try and see what ideas anyone had and how I may correct the issue. Thanks in advance.