Hello everyone,

first of all I want to thank all the developers here in putting so much time and effort into this. I'm a complete newbie to webdesign and CMS and I'm pretty impressed what you can achieve without any programing knowledge.
However, I anticipated some probs in order to set up my "abroad blog" site. After playing around with a couple of modules for gallery, forum and blogs I decided to finally set up the page with myalbum, wordpress, narga's guestbook and the forumEX. Although I'm not 100% confident with these choices (any comments?), I decided to go with them because if there was a better module I couldn't get it running (specifically Galeria 1.26 - installed perfectly fine, but whereever i clicked in the admin menu-nothing happend! - any ideas?)

Now here is my problem: I want to have my website completely behind a login page except a nice text on the first page "if you're my friend request a login ...". Am i right that in the block section in the admin section the top pop-down menus are for user rights? I want to set up that anonymous users can just see the login blog + my custom block showing the message - however, if i change that, my registered user just see the login blog + custom blog - all others are set to not visible - worked around that so far by not enabling that block for registered users but that is no solution for the future (or is it?).

My next question goes in a similar direction: Instead of the author's note on every module's output, I'd like to remove the Copyright notes and include a link "Credits or courtesy" in the footer (instead of powered by xoops) which would link to a site with all used modules and their developer's website. However, I'd like to have this site in XOOPS (template etc.).

Another related question: I also would like to show my SkypeMe button in the footer - but just after somebody logged in - not everyone should be able to call me! (despite the fact that my website and Skype user name are the same )

How would I undergo something like this?

Any hints are highly appreciated.

My environment is the following:

Apache integrated in OSX Tiger 10.4.2
mySql 4.0.21
Xoops 2.0.13.1

Many thanks in advance!

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Good choices, but I kind of prefer newbb/cbb.

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There's probably a module that accomplishes the same things, but your approach is perfect.

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Creative idea, you could even have it link to your Links section instead of creating a new site. I would suggest contacting the individual module developers, though. Some of them may be particular about that.

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Beyond my technical abilities. Help anyone?

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you would do that in your theme file.... sort of like this...

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That will esseintially show the SkypeMe button to anyone logged in as a user, but not to anonymous or non-logged in people.

Sheer genius. Yes it would. You've gotta excuse me for missing that. I'm more of a XOOPsie (my newly-coined term for a XOOPS groupie) than a coder.

search for a module called credits

that reads the module credits/author etc and lists the credits of each module automatically like a credits page in a movie.. then i see no reason anybody could complain if you removed all copyrights from page output, as they would be listed on the credits page :)

Credits module is buggy (in the area of automatically collect all needed module's data) and can be user only manual adding and configuring sections

@all of you,

thanks a lot for the good hints and the assurance of my module choices
I'm not much of a coder either but I think I'll be able do implement the "if user logged in" for my skype button. XOOPS and its community is really cool! I played 2 days around with mambo which is really impressive (especially the backend) but for the purpose of a community page for friends and a blog its just overkill (and not particularly suited)
I'm gonna play a little bit around with the credit module and I'll report about it later.
For everyone who uses memberlistsor who's online: I found on the malay XOOPS page xm memberstats: That is an impressive module for that purpose which identifies the location of members via their IP address and puts a nice national flag behind their name!

I have another question though: Since my page is intended to keep in touch with my friends, I'd like to get their adresses, birthdays etc. Is there any way or module to extend the XOOPS account with this info? I think that would be pretty much at the core, so nothing for a php rookie like me, eh?
I already tried adresses or sth similar but they just have very few fields ( no b-day or second email for instance). Basically, i wanna keep my apple address book updated.
I perfect feature would be the ability for them to say which info they'd like to share with the community - Address yes, birthday no.... does anybody have heard of sth like this?

But anyway, thanks so far for all your responses and I'll report about the credits module... Cheers

For 2.0 you can think about
1. XYP4All as address book
2. Membership module as central storage of different (wide) personal data (and visibililty of every field easy controlled on usergroup level)

Hey,

again, I'm amazed about the quick replies:

@adrock: Thanks, works perfectly fine - should learn PHP to get these solutions on my own! Just copied your code in my template:
<{if $xoops_isuser}> <{$xoops_footer}> <{else}> [what you want to show them instead of the SkypeMe button] <{/if}>
So i can still maintain that link via xoops! Cheers

@lazybadger: Thanks for your module tip! Although I'd like to keep and collect these infos at one central place, this comes pretty close to what I'm looking for. Try to to tweak the template a little though...

Thanks a lot!