are there any Ladders for games for XOOPS out there? i need some ASAP lemme know!

you could perhaps copy and paste this into your text editor and read it sometime..

Themes and Design

Xoops comes with a small selection of themes, sometimes called "skins". Many hundreds of other ready made themes are available for download. Users then change the logo and look to suit their preferences. In practice many users choose a theme which has an appropriate layout, and alter the appearance by changing the themes html file and style sheet in the theme's folder. Some webmasters have created stunning individual looking sites.


If editing your theme.html or the style sheet(s) based in your theme folder and you wish to see changes immediately, go to your site admin, and let your mouse hover over the System Admin Icon--then choose Preferences-->General Settings, and look for this field:

Update module template .html files from themes/your theme/templates directory? Set this to Yes

If this option is enabled, module template .html files will be updated automatically if there are newer files under the themes/your theme/templates directory for the current theme. This should be turned off once the site goes public.

Logo

To change your logo, right click on the logo on your site and choose "Properties". This will show you the path to your logo and the name of your logo file. Go to the same file on your server and overwrite this with your own image, renaming your image with the same name as the exiting logo. Dimensions for the image can be changed in the theme.html in your theme folder

Three themes come with your XOOPS install. They are located here:

www.yoursite.com/themes

default
x2t
phpkaox

To change your default theme you go to:

System Admin-->Preferences-->General Settings and go to the "Default theme" dropdown box. The theme called "default" is the theme that loads on install.

To edit the look of your theme you can go to your theme folder and edit theme.html and style.css inside the folder. Some themes also have styleNN.css for Netscape, and styleMAC.css for Mac computers.

Remember: If you are editing the theme.html and style.css files in your themes folder and nothing appears to change, you must set this:

Update module template .html files from themes/your theme/templates directory to "YES" in System Admin-->Preferences-->General Settings


Templates:

Most themes use the default "Template". Templates control the layout and some behaviors and functions of individual blocks and modules. Most existing XOOPS themes are based on the XOOPS "default" template.

You can't edit the default template, you must clone it first, and edit the clone. To clone the default template

Go to System Admin-->Templates, and click Clone next to the default template, you may call this clone anything you wish. XOOPS will install the clone. After you have done this, go to system admin-->preferences-->general settings and make the clone your default Template (not theme)

Then go back to System Admin-->Templates. a tick should be to the right of the default template. You may need to click on "Generate" if any of the module files have a "red" generate link.

Editing a block's layout:

Your Blocks layout is controlled from Templates and related style.css classes. Go to System-->Admin-->Blocks and look for the block you wish to alter. Then click "Edit" to the right of the block. In the next dialogue box you will see "Edit Template". Click this, and you will see the code for your block. You will also see the "classes" that are being called which relate to the style.css sheet in your themes folder.

Practice uploading a template.

Most existing themes are based on the Default Template. Some themes you download may have its own template. These template files are in a compressed format. tar.gzip

To upload a Template to XOOPS the file must be in this tar.gzip format.

In your extras folder their is a "tar" template for the X2T theme. To upload go to System Admin-->Templates, and go to the Upload browse box and browse to this "tar" file in your local computers XOOPS download:

Look for the folder called "extras" inside that folder you will find this folder:

theme_x2t

Select this file: x2t.tar.gz and upload

You can call this anything you like, if you don't add a name XOOPS will just add a default name. After you have done this, go to system admin-->preferences-->general settings, and make x2t your default theme, and also choose the template you uploaded as your default template. (there is drop downs for both)

Then go back to system admin-->templates, and you will see a tick to the right of your default template. You may need to to click "generate" to create the editable files for individual modules you install.

See this on the "Wiki" for more explanation about Themes and Templates"

http://wiki.xoops.org/wakka.php?wakka=ThemesVsTemplates

Downloading and Installing Themes

You can of course download other themes and upload them into your themes folder on your server using FTP to:

www.yoursite.com/themes

Be careful to upload the correct folder structure. Your download may have a folder inside a folder when you uncompress the files

themename (not this one)
themename (upload this one with the theme.html and other files inside)

Once again go to system admin-->preferences -->general settings, and make your new theme your default. XOOPS will recognize the theme you uploaded.

Tip

A handy tool for visually editing themes is to launch the theme changing "block", this will allow you to see and edit the appearance of the themes without changing the default theme. To do this go to System Admin-->Blocks and activate the "Themes" block.

In system admin-->groups you can make this block only visible to webmasters if you wish. If you wish the block to be visible to anonymous users go to System Admin-->Groups-->Anonymous Users, click Edit, and put a checkmark in the themes block, and then click update

Sure! Try the image manager that comes with xoops.

Administration > System Admin > Image Manager

You can define categories there and upload images through this interface or with the image manager button in every textarea field.

Is that what hosed me? I edited it while it was running?

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks

Follow updates to the NukeTreasury/Donations module progress in this new thread:

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=19813&post_id=85370&order=0&viewmode=flat&pid=0&forum=4#forumpost85370

Please help with testing, if you're a good programmer, i could use your help!

Is there a way to upload an image along with a article posting without having to FTP or reference the image? YOu know by using browse to attached the image?



PUP

As discussed in this thread (towards the end), I am working on porting a PHP-Nuke module (NukeTreasury) to Xoops2

As far as I can tell so far, everything appears to work within the module, except that Paypal donations don't seem to be able to successfully post back to the donation ipn script. I need help from other programmers/developers so that we can track down the core issue, and maybe even rework the module further.

Here is my work to-date:
http://www.csmapcentral.com/archives/xoops2/Xoops2_Donations_1.1.2BETA.zip

I ported NukeTreasury 1.0 to NSN-Nuke/OpenSiteManager, and due to my fixes and enhancements to the code, I used the NSN-Nuke port when moving it to Xoops.

The block, main module view, and admin system all appear to be working fine, but to do further testing, I need to get Paypal properly posting to the module via the IPN script. Any assistance and helpful feedback is greatly appreciated. Please post any comments and/or fixes in this thread, or PM me.

Thanks!

Feature List (carried over from NukeTreasury, implemented by original author):
-Shows amount needed each month
-Shows gross & net amounts donated each month (after paypal's fees)
-Lists donators at their request, otherwise shows as Anonymous
-Gives users multiple 'default' donation options, as well as the ability to input their preferred amount
-Live IPN notification from Paypal upon receipt of payment or notifications of cancellation/refund (non-working feature currently)
-Ability to add/subtract fund usage for better tracking of paypal funds

Xoops2 Feature List (implemented by me):
-Enhanced admin navigation
-Improved process for entering fund additions/subtractions/edits
-Ported to Xoops2 with Smarty-Compatible Templates


Intended Features (future):
-Group support

Did you perhaps change the default theme in the admin menu?

Go to Administration Menu > System > Preferences > General Settings and select your default theme.

welcome to XOOPS filesiteguy

Don't worry, there is no such a thing here as a silly question.

might be some silly answers though..