basically since i installed smartmedia my admin has gone to a white screen. So I want to deactivate smartmedia to try and save the admin panel but cant do this without the admin panel. I understand that I can change the boolean value for a modules active/deactivated state through php my admin but i don't have a clue how to do this could someone please give me a quick walk through on how to do this.

I am using
PHP 5
MySQL 5
Xoops 2.0.16
PHP MyAdmin 2.10.0.2

Thanks
Dave

Run the above SQL query in phpMyAdmin and it will turn on debug for you.

Change to whatever you set your table prefix to during install.

The module id will vary based on your installation - Look in _modules for the SmartMedia module (your name of the module)

With phpMyAdmin you can edit that record. Or, try this -

UPDATE _modules SET isactive = 0 WHERE dirname = 'smartmedia' should deactivate your module