Hi,

I have been tasked with updating our rugby club website, and think that XOOPS is probably the best tool to do what we need.

Problem is, I am a little stuck as to what modules to use etc to present the content that we need to display.

The best way to explian is to actually show you. If you look at Sutton & Epsom Rugby, this is the old site. as a /newsite to the url to see the beginnings of the new site.

The homepage is simple enough, I think I can use the news XOOPS official module for that, so I can let club admin people add news articles etc (although I think I need to tweak it a bit to get rid of the topic selection dropdown, and let users use the menu instead.

But if you go to the team pages you'll see we run a lot of teams and each team has its own page to maintain local news, contacts fixture lists, match reports and the like. I am a bit stuck as to how we can present this data using XOOPS. I'd rather use a module than have to just embed PHP linking to the current data. I'd like to beable to use the admin console for editing the pages in a similar way to the news page.

Can anyone give me some pointers and maybe point me to a few areas that may help?

Steve

Welcome to Xoops!

You might try using one of the section managers that will allow you to setup areas for the teams so each team will have it's own area to place information. I'd probably look at either SmartSection or Mastop Publish to see if one of them does what you want.

I'd recommend eXtGallery for your photo gallery. You could also use eXtCal for a calendar program to schedule the matches.

There's also a teams module that might give you some of the features you're looking for - sorry, can't find the link right now but maybe someone who's used that module can chime in...

Hopefully that will give you a good start.

Hi,

Thanks ever so much for the advice, you have given me plenty to gwet on with and make a good start.

I'd definitely be interested in the teams module if anyone can find it. I did a quick google for "xoops team module" but didn't get much.

Thansk again, I will post back when I have made some changes, probably with another whole host of questions!

Steve

Hi,

I managed to install the eXtGallery module and it looks pretty good.

I want to add the random image section to the very top section (header) of my webpage.

I tried to do this by looking at the template definition for the random image block and pasting that into my header but it does not seem to work. I assume it has to do some form of init before the template works.

Is there an easy way to edit the theme.html so that I can display the random image "block" in the main header part of my page?

Below is what I did.. and I understand sort of why it is wrong.. But don't know how to fix it..

Steve

<!-- Start Header -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" background="white">
<tr id="header">
<td id="headerlogo"><a href="<{$xoops_url}>/"><img src="<{$xoops_imageurl}>logo.gif" alt="<{$xoops_sitename}>" /></a></td>
<td id="headerbanner"><{$xoops_banner}></td>
<td id="headerBanner">
<table style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<{foreach item=photo from=$block.photos}>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;">
<a href="<{$xoops_url}>/modules/extgallery/public-photo.php?photoId=<{$photo.photo_id}>">
<img src="<{$xoops_url}>/uploads/extgallery/public-photo/thumb/thumb_<{$photo.photo_name}>" alt="<{$photo.photo_desc}>" title="<{$photo.photo_desc}>" />
</a>
<{if $block.desc}>
<p style="text-align:center;"><{$photo.photo_desc}></p>
<{/if}>
</td>
<{/foreach}>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- End Header -->