I changed the Footer parameter value (XOOP 2.0.6) and it says it's saved successfully to the DB. However the footer displayed on my site is this:

<table cellspacing="0">
<tr id="footerbar">
<td><a href="https://xoops.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.MYSITE.com/themes/default/poweredby.gif" alt="" /></a></td>
</tr>
</table>

Why isn't the footer value picked up, and what do I need to
do to have my own value showing up there?

Thank you,
Ray

My guess is that the default one is still cached, and that soon, very soon, you will come back to it and voila, it'll be just the way you want it . But, I could be wrong. One of the genuises around here may have a better answer. I'm not sure where/if the meta tags are cached or not. BUt it seems that most everything else is. And when I have a prob like this that is usually the answer. Just saw that you hadn't had an reply yet.

As you can see in the code above, you are not calling any text but using an image (poweredby.gif) for the footer. If you want to use the footer entered in the "Meta Tags and Footer" admin, you have to use the Smarty variable <{$xoops_footer}>.

The default theme uses the image and not the Smarty variable.

Hope this helps!

What I did to get text in the footer instead of the img was to take out the image in the footer part of my theme.html and just put the text of powered by xoops.org with a link to xoops.org there with the rest of the text that I wanted to say there. That worked fine for me.

Thanks all for your replies. From what I gather from the answers, I'll need to modify the default theme code for it to
use the smarty footer variable, and this cannot be done via
a configuration change through the Web browser. Am I correct?

On a grander topic, this is what I'd like to do with xooops
on my site:

I have 3 groups:
- visitors who can view some of the info, but cannot post
anything (except through the contact form)

- registered users who can post to forum (and contact form),
but can not post anywhere else. they can however view some
of the info that is NOT visible to visitors.

- admin users who can post to anything (adding contents,
news, events, etc).

- for the forum, I want to totally disable the Inbox functionality so that notifications can only be sent to
the registered user's email address on file.

From my understanding, to achieve this access hierarchy,
I need to play around with Groups setting in Admin, and
assign users accordingly. But I don't understand how I
can block post but not view functionality. For example,
I want to the admin users to be able to post to wfsections,
faq, news, etc. I don't want anyone else to be
able to do so, but I want the registered users to be able
to read all of the wfsections, but visitors to read
only SOME of the wfsections. Neither can post. Is this
possible?

Thanks,
Ray

Yeah, the default theme does not use the xoops_footer smarty variable, so you will have to edit the theme file yourself and reupload (theme.html) - or change to another theme.

Do set the setting in general preferences to "update module templates from [...]" when you are editing theme files in order for them to be recompiled - once the theme is as you want it, tur off the setting again.

I've replied to your more grand questions in the other thread.