WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter # 22 (July 2009)

WOX - World Of Xoops

W.O.X. - WORLD OF XOOPS #22 (July 2009)

Welcome to the July 2009 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter (see here previous versions)

As always, as the first thing in each newsletter we wanted to express our gratitude to all of you who have donated money to XOOPS Foundation! We truly appreciate your trust and support!

This month was especially busy for Wishcraft who again created couple of new modules: Genobio 0.13 (Alpha) and Lawsuit 1.05 (Beta), and updated several of his older modules: Spiders 1.06, X-Reaggregator 2.20. Also very busy were sinnedesign and Algalochkin releasing several new Themes. Thank you all!!!!

And we finally have some tangible designs for the new XOOPS Website Theme, and meaningful discussions.

The work is also going on the next release of XOOPS: 2.3.4. Trabis and Wishcraft have been very hard at work, and we should expect the first Beta release sometime next week.

Highlights of the last month:

XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to Ruoyu SUN (insraq) from China for his innovative work on XOOPS China Website.
XOOPSer of the Month Award: is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, we would like to recognize Michael Albertsen (culex) for his support on our Forums.
New Design of XOOPS China
TDM (team developement module)
Work on new XOOP Website Theme
Brazilian users learn XOOPS

Summary

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X-Reaggregator 2.21

X-Re-aggregator 2.21 based on XoopsHeadlines includes a nice feature for Re-aggregating your RSS Feeds into your community from

other sources, it includes a .htaccess SEO as well as an RSS Cache and RSS Snooping by Setting in your preferences. With a new

RSS Mashables options, X-Reaggregator 2.21 offers the best in RSS Management and Snooping.

This for example is useful with your X-Torrent Installation as you can add other X-Torrent RSS Feeds to it and allow your users

to with the RSS Torrent acquire Aggregate torrents from many sources with the Feed Snooping your limited supply from other

sources.

Or any other form of RDF or RSS Feeds, it will also parse into the core of the system for dynamic feed maintenance and

collaboration methods with the multisite module.

Download the X-Reaggregator 2.21 here from Chronolabs Australia.

Download: xoops2_xreaggregator_2.20.zip
Mirror: Live Skydriver

Changes
* System Admin Icons

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Lawsuit 1.06 (RC)

Lawsuit is an module for XOOPS that allows for categories and pages to be create with associated forms. The forms are

completely customisable and offer a method of display data in pertinence to any legal issue and collect data for an inquiry or

application to a law firm, lawyer or solicitors service so they can ask unique question to do with the case.

You can have as many forms and pages as well as categories as the database supports. Each page can have a customised form

associated with it where you can retrieve related information to do with the presentation of the case or issue you are seeking

clients on for legal representation.

There are other application for this module which can be easily cloned or change to suit other forms of paginated liaise within

your xoops site.

This is the beta release so please test and report any errors you are having.

Download: xoops2_lawsuit_1.06.zip (96 Kb)
Mirror: Live Skydriver

Changes Notes
* Function.php Repaired
* Installer Fixed

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xTransam 1.06

Automated Language Translator for XOOPS 2.3.3, all languages on the google API Supported.

Compatible with all Unicode, utf-8, utf-16, uft-32.

From Chronolabs

Features:

* File by File Editor
* Import a define keyword set
* write to system
* admin only
* hex storage

System Requirements:

* XOOPS 2.3.x

Download: xoops2.3_xtransam_1.06.zip
Mirror: Live Skydriver

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xInvites 1.16

Welcome to X-Invites 1.16. This module is for mass email inviting it allows for your website client to enter their username and password for various of email services and social networks like yahoo, hotmail, rambler, mail.com, fastmail, facebook, twitter and many others and will download a list of the email clients on that service.

It will then allow for an email to be sent inviting the person on that email to sign up to your website.

Supported Providers:
Quote:

If you would like to download this module:

Download: xoops2_xinvite_1.16.zip
Mirror: Live Skydriver

xSOAP 4.21 (PHP SOAP FIX)

What is SOAP?

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a way for a program running in one kind of operating system (such as Windows 2000) to communicate with a progam in the same or another kind of an operating system (such as Linux) by using the World Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)and its Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the mechanisms for information exchange. Since Web protocols are installed and available for use by all major operating system platforms, HTTP and XML provide an already at-hand solution to the problem of how programs running under different operating systems in a network can communicate with each other. SOAP specifies exactly how to encode an HTTP header and an XML file so that a program in one computer can call a program in another computer and pass it information. It also specifies how the called program can return a response.

What Can It Do for Me?

You can link with any soap-compliant system with complete w3c standard wsdl these will be completed in version 4.0 they are more just the abstract data layers of wsdl, they still need a dynamic mime type and other system written into them which the constructs are in place. You can transfer data between any sort tunnel through most of not all firewalls and poll your xoops platform from with another xoops or CMS or even things like .NET, Delphi and many other programming languages.

X-SOAP is the quick way for cloud computing, you can link your xoops platform with any other computer network with this module, plug-in have complete WSDL compilation code and allow for easy and dynamic deployment.

Whats New in this release?

The PHP SOAP has now been fixed, this will work with the native PHP SOAP as well as use nusoap if the PHP Extension is not installed.

To Download it:

Download: xoops2_xsoap_4.21.zip

Mirror: Live Skydriver

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Spiders 1.07

Spiders is a robot manager tool, that imports a list of all crawler and scanner robots on the web. It allows you to use XOOPS

Permissiveness to control the data that robots list online your site. It will also log the robot in using a post loader and

display when the robot is online on you 'Whos Online'.

The robot text file used is taken from an online resource of Robot data and stores it in your database. Remember to adjust your

mainfile.php to include the post loader after the common file is loaded.

Robot Manager (Spiders) is a good way to control what your site displays in search engines.

Spider is only written for XOOPS 2.3 and later.

Download: xoops2.3_spiders_1.07.zip (92Kb)
Mirror: Live Skydriver

Changes
* Icons for System Admin

Brazilian users learn XOOPS

Source: Unipar

At the recent conference on Free Software, organized by Celepar, more than five hundred people attended lectures, seminars, courses and workshops on Open Source Software.

Besides solutions for data, IP phones and converged networks, the participants learned about more standard tools such as design editors, GIMP, distance learning Moodle, Web portal XOOPS, editor for vector drawings Inskape, ODF open document standard, platform Pinhão for systems development, Express mail, operating system, Linux, LTSP server.

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Free Simple Green Theme

Today I'm happy to present you my next FREE XOOPS - Theme with the name Simple-Green-Theme.

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Here can you find the XOOPS Theme Demo and here is the free Download Xoops Theme Simple-Green-Theme.

Happy XOOPsing.

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update xinvite 1.14 spanish translation and more 2 bloks

To collaborate with Simon wishcraft developer of the module xinvite version 1.14
I have made the spanish translation
Download language spanish file xinvite version 1.14
http://www.alianzadeministerios.cl/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=4&lid=2

I have created 2 blocks horizontal and vertical
Email companies more common, like AOL, Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo,

NOTE: These 2 blocks are in Spanish in format html. I insert it through admin block They have to be incorporate in the original module in format php, I'm working on this.
The colors are very important to distinguish the blocks, otherwise they don't see each other

Download the horizontal, and vertical block html Spanish
http://www.alianzadeministerios.cl/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=4&lid=1

To see the 2 blocks working go here
http://www.alianzadeministerios.cl/modules/xinvite/

I have reduced the size of the 88 images from 130x63 pixels to 104x48 pixels,
now they are more light and they occupy less space. see the difference below.