Hello everyone,

I made the choice to go with XOOPS as my CMS after initially starting my site for a month with no CMS whatsoever. After my host got nuked and my site was down for 2 days(I shed tears over the lost traffic) I decided to get a virtual dedicated server(after all my site is approaching 100k alexa) and rethink my website. I evaluated PHPnuke, Mambo, et al, I came to the conclusion that XOOPS was more keeping with my modular OOP mindset, and so far I am happy.

I will have many questions over the next week, but now I just want to know how to vertical place blocks. I am able to say left, right, center, but vertically I am lost. I assumed weight would be the factor, but if I have only onle block on a given page, and above it is a module, but I want the block BELOW the module how to do this?

Sure I could edit the theme.php itself, but this seems silly.

Specificially I have created a Google adsense block, and I want it to be near the bottom of the page, below my forum module, or any other module that currently happens to be displayed.

Thanks beaucoup!

Adrian

You would have to edit themes/-/theme.html.

Is there any plan to give more placement control in the future? Why give horizontal control but no vertical control? Just curious.

The weight parameter provides vertical control, but the overall placement is determined by the code in theme.html, and it's not flexible enough to allow placing a block below the main page content without manual editing.

I think that improvements are planned for XOOPS 2.4 or XOOPS 3.x.

Ok, that's what I needed to know, thanks!

Adrian

Check out www.myxoops.com for a hack which can add a little more control - however I dont know if this will work with 2.2 ....