We are extremely happy to announce that Justin Erenkrantz, President of the Apache Software Foundation and member of Apache Foundation's Board of Directors, will become a member of the XOOPS Advisory Board. He is joining on the Board the Founder of XOOPS - Onokazu.

Justin is a very well known Open Source developer, who has contributed to the development of the Apache HTTP Server, Apache Portable Runtime, and flood. Along with Greg Stein, he wrote the Serf client library. He has also been known to dabble in Subversion development.

Justin is currently a PhD student at the University of California, Irvine in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. His research interests are in software engineering - specifically REST-based software architectures. His forthcoming dissertation is entitled "Architectural Dissonance and Harmony in REST-based Applications".

Creating the XOOPS Advisory Board is only one of many steps that we're undertaking to make XOOPS a professionally run, top-notch, Open Source Content Management System.

We are very excited to have a person of Justin's caliber on our XOOPS Advisory Board, and we are looking forward to working with him and benefit from his vast experience in the Open Source area.

Sinnemax is my first website with xoops.
the main focus of my site is webdesign in leipzig.
i used simple - xoops 0.8.2 (xoops-2.2.5) with seo and fullcache hack.

Webdesign Leipzig

i hope you find nice my site

regards and happy xoopsing
sinnemax

The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 2.3.0 Alpha 3.

The objective of XOOPS 2.3 releases is to merge the two existent branches of 2.0 and 2.2 and to build a bridge towards our next generation of system XOOPS 3.0.

With XOOPS 2.3 releases, users will be able to learn some of new features that will be available in XOOPS 3.0, while developers can understand better the direction of XOOPS development, and designers can learn what features will be supported in the future.

Both backward and forward compatibility will be guaranteed as much as possible. Modules written for 2.0.* and 2.2.* will work with 2.3; applications developed for 2.3 will be compatible with XOOPS 3.0 automatically.

Developers are encouraged to write their application modules on XOOPS 2.3 so they can incorporate some of the new features and ensure easy migration to XOOPS 3.0.

One of the specific improvements coming with Alpha 3 is user experience oriented backend interface enhancement including the introduction of control panel GUI, which allows custom backend interface, e.g. ThAdmin by MusS.

Download XOOPS 2.3.0 Alpha 3 core package and add-on package from Sourceforge repository.

Module: x-Soap
Author: Simon Roberts
Version: 3.0 Alpha
Wiki: X-Soap

x-Soap is an extension library for XOOPS, it is a soap server that is design to have a secure syndication method for customised crons and systems integration with a 3rd Party. You can share any part of your xoops database securely with x-soap plugins include post, retrieve and update, views & schemers control, you can introduce your own plug-in for the system, complete with permission's and access rights.

Has its own plug-in interface which can be controlled by user groups, includes password and username interface.

SOAP is a w3c Standard XML Exchange, this a full WDSL and Standard Soap Server for XOOPS.

Download Previous Version: xoops2_xsoap_2.3.zip (171Kb)

Change notes:

* WDSL XML Generator
* Native PHP Soap Extension Support
* Same old features.

THIS IS NOT RECOMMEND FOR PRODUCTION MACHINES IT IS ONLY AN ALPHA..

Forum: X-Soap Alpha
Download:X-Soap 3.0 - Alpha

Check who's watching your XOOPS site by simply copy and paste an ip from the who's online block to the search field and you will know if it's a bot or a visitor...

Demo

Download

The Google Talk module will implement Google Talk to your website so that you and your visitors can chat with friends from within your XOOPS site...

The chat window is iframed from Google so it will not influence on your bandwith.


Demo

Download

Arabxoops.com is happy to announce you the release of an improved version of the Xoops Web Tools module based on PHP-Nuke Tools ver 3.0 ( www.disipal.net ).



The XOOPS Web Tools module is one of the most helpful modules. Whether you are developing for XOOPS or want to write a module or block really quickly, or even if you just want to learn how modules, blocks and the rest works in XOOPS, you will appreciate its help.. It offers features such as:

- HTML to PHP/ASP/JSP/Perl/Javascript/SWS
- XOOPS Module/Block Creator
- Meta Tag/Scrollbar/Popup Creator
- Source/HTML/URL/Email/Rot-13 Encoder
- Online HTML Editor
- Hex Colors
- Previewer
- Duplicate Remover

Demo: click here

Download: click here

Tip Especially recommended for beginners (but not only)!

If you are a beginner in XOOPS, have just started your very first module or block, but you get errors and don't understand why? Give it a try with the XOOPS Web Tools Module or Block Creator! It will help you see what you were missing and will also give you a feeling of how code looks before and after it is "XOOPSed".

I would like to express my "Thank you" to Catzwolf for fixing a bug and to Mamba for his help and tips.

Mowaffak Ali

Hello,

"XPETITIONS" Module evolves/moves with new functionalities required by the users.

"XPETITIONS" is a module of multilangages petitions on lines developed for xoops v.2.0.x. It enables you to manage as many petitions as you wish, extract the signatories by csv file, to decorate your forms of signature by controls captcha, etc.

Developed additional functionalities:
- Settings: Signatures validation by email or double click
- Settings: Choice of the Editor type (for the seizure of the petitions)
- Management of the signatures: Forced validation of the unconfirmed signatories
- Management of the emails (NEW): Modification of the emails contents sent to the authors of signatures
- Management of the fields (NEW): Management of the visible and required form fields of the petitions signatures
- Style sheet: Modification of the petitions dynamic bars(clear: both)
- Signature Form: Dynamic message following selected option (email or Automatic)
- Signatures (visualization): Between brackets, posting of the job (if it) if not posting of the country (if it) if not removal of the brackets
- Signatures (visualization): Suppression of the last comma after the last signatory of the list

I count on you to test this new version 0.19 BETA 1.

Tests started on Xoops 2.0.16 hacké with Final Multilanguages 2.0.7 and on Xoops 2.0.18.

The module is downloadable on its site: http://www.informatux.com/xpetitions

For the feedbacks, thank you to use the forum of the site.

Thank you with all for your feedbacks and to make evolve the module to a stable version 0.20.

Patrice

Another month, and another issue of  the WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter (see here previous versions). We appreciate your comments, feedback, and improvement suggestions, as we want WOX to be the best publication for XOOPS Users. There are several very exciting things that happened in April, and we hope that May will be the same, if not better!

The biggest breaking news of April was, of course, the fact that Onokazu, the Founder of XOOPS, will be joining our newly created XOOPS Advisory Board. Please help us to welcome the "Father of XOOPS" back with us!!!

The second exciting news is that we are establishing the XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS.

And the third exciting news is that XOOPS Dev Forge is open for business. We thank all people who helped us to re-install and test it.

In this issue:

New XOOPS developments
AWARDS/Recognitions
XOOPSer of the Month
XOOPS Innovation Awards
New Modules
New Hacks
Security Issues/Alerts
YAXS - Sites Using Xoops!
Tutorials/Add-ons
New/Updated Themes
News from around the World
Xoops International Support Sites
How to contribute

We are happy to announce that we have formed a XOOPS International Support Team. This team, comprised of Webmasters of XOOPS Local Support Sites, will work on:

- improving XOOPS international support around the world
- exchanging information about local issues
- improving globalization/translations of XOOPS
- define a translation process for local translations teams
- define needed translation tools
- define translation requirements for XOOPS, so the local teams have an easier job doing the translations
- improving sharing of Best Practices
- create a "Tool Kit" for new XOOPS International Support Websites
- create a process to feed back to XOOPS local innovations and ideas. There are cool local modules or themes, but the world doesn't know it because the author is not fluent in English.

This team will be coordinated by Runeher. We are extremely happy to have him on the XOOPS team - he is one of the new and dedicated XOOPS supporters, who are discovering XOOPS and are jumping on board to help! Within a very short time, he was able to team up with other Nordic countries, create a Xoops Nordic Website, a central hub and a gateway to that region, and all of this, while creating some really cool modules. With more people like him, XOOPS will have indeed a very bright future!



About Runeher (Rune Hauge):

He was born in in Norway, but now he works as a web designer and artist from his farm in Denmark.

Rune discovered XOOPS around 3 Years ago after trying out other CMS for a while, and fell completely in love with it because of its user backend simplicity. He uses XOOPS mostly for all new clients as long as the client doesn't disagree, which has never happend yet

He is self-taught and uses different script languages within XOOPS including PHP, Java, Flash among others, when developing new sites.

He is co-webmaster for Xoops Nordic, Xoops Norway, Xoops Sweden and Xoops Finland.

In his free time, when he doesn't work on XOOPS, Rune likes to train his five rottweiler dogs, work on his farm, remaking it to a castle for him and his wife, and he loves to play paintball, not because there are guns involved, but because it's great fun! He also likes scuba diving, horseback riding and he can't live without watching TV football (or soccer in USA).