x-Torrent 1.47 - New Release
Module: x-Torrents
Author: Simon Roberts (+ Others)
Version: 1.47
SourceForge: X-Torrent
Wiki: X-Torrent on Xoops
Chronodoc: x-Torrent 1.47
X-Torrent is a complete torrent solution for Xoops 2.3 plus earlier and later versions. There is al ot of potential in torrent sharing, this allows you a company, business, personal or educational institute to distribute data via torrents which is useful.
Due to the large volume of difference between internet speeds in the world, torrents now consist of over 18% of broadband traffic. Torrents are becoming a commodity these day from small to large files.
Currently x-Torrent offers a large range of options, but we will be releasing a new version in around 6 months, if some spare time comes in we will be writing in more options and systems.
x-Torrent is a module which offer full control of torrents in xoops, it will poll the torrents as well as download file information, seeds, leeches, trackers etc, of the torrent.
Change Log - 1.47
• RSS Feeds Added (Watch out for HTML Mark Up in your Descriptions like ' = ')
• SEO .htaccess Added - With Preference Option.
• viewcat.php - Search Types Fixed.
Download: xoops2_xtorrent_1.47.zip (352Kb)
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Author: Simon Roberts (+ Others)
Version: 1.47
SourceForge: X-Torrent
Wiki: X-Torrent on Xoops
Chronodoc: x-Torrent 1.47
X-Torrent is a complete torrent solution for Xoops 2.3 plus earlier and later versions. There is al ot of potential in torrent sharing, this allows you a company, business, personal or educational institute to distribute data via torrents which is useful.
Due to the large volume of difference between internet speeds in the world, torrents now consist of over 18% of broadband traffic. Torrents are becoming a commodity these day from small to large files.
Currently x-Torrent offers a large range of options, but we will be releasing a new version in around 6 months, if some spare time comes in we will be writing in more options and systems.
x-Torrent is a module which offer full control of torrents in xoops, it will poll the torrents as well as download file information, seeds, leeches, trackers etc, of the torrent.
Change Log - 1.47
• RSS Feeds Added (Watch out for HTML Mark Up in your Descriptions like ' = ')
• SEO .htaccess Added - With Preference Option.
• viewcat.php - Search Types Fixed.
Download: xoops2_xtorrent_1.47.zip (352Kb)
eXtCal 2.2.0 is out
Good news from Zoullou: one of the best XOOPS Calendar module has been updated:
eXtCal 2.2.0 is out after few month of developement. This version is a stable release, so you could use it on production site.
The 2 biggest added feature are reccuring event and a feature to allow "online module update". This feature is very usefull when you have several site that use the module and you want to have up to date module.
Download it from here...
Thank you, Zoullou for your hard work!!!
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eXtCal 2.2.0 is out after few month of developement. This version is a stable release, so you could use it on production site.
The 2 biggest added feature are reccuring event and a feature to allow "online module update". This feature is very usefull when you have several site that use the module and you want to have up to date module.
Download it from here...
Thank you, Zoullou for your hard work!!!
New site from Brasil
I made this site to blog or news. I use:
wordpress
newbb (cbb 308)
news
wfdownload
xmmemberstats
statistics
sitemap
contatc
The theme is zetagenesis with the inclusion of advertisements google at the top and the bottom of the site.
The banner appears at the top and also appears footer.
Visit us at
http://janercristaldo.com/
Comments?
wordpress
newbb (cbb 308)
news
wfdownload
xmmemberstats
statistics
sitemap
contatc
The theme is zetagenesis with the inclusion of advertisements google at the top and the bottom of the site.
The banner appears at the top and also appears footer.
Visit us at
http://janercristaldo.com/
M-Flower Theme
Hi all,
I have ported a theme from siteground.com. The theme is now a little bit wider then the original one.
3-column theme
width: 1100px
Demo and download at http://www.xoops-theme.com
have fun
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I have ported a theme from siteground.com. The theme is now a little bit wider then the original one.
3-column theme
width: 1100px
Demo and download at http://www.xoops-theme.com
have fun
WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter # 9
Another month, and another issue of the WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter (see here previous versions). We continue to 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 May, and we hope that June will be even better!
1) In month of May we continued with building up our XOOPS Board of Advisors. We were very lucky in engaging three outstanding individuals to join our Board of Advisors, in addition to XOOPS Founder, Onokazu:
- Justin Erenkrantz, President of Apache Software Foundation
- Prof. Alan C. Moore from Kentucky State University
- Richard Fontana, a lawyer from Red Hat specializing in Open Source issues
Please help us to welcome them to the XOOPS family!!!
2) The second exciting news was that we have created a "XOOPS Hall of Fame", to recognize people who provided in the past extraordinary support and dedication for XOOPS, and helped to move XOOPS forward. It is just a small token of appreciation for all the hours they've spent on making XOOPS what it is today - one of the world's finest Web portal systems around!
The 2008 Inductees to XOOPS Hall of Fame:
- Kazumi Ono (Onokazu) - Founder: Creator of the XOOPS Project, Project Leader and Lead Developer for XOOPS 1.* and 2.0 branch
- Goghs Cheng (goghs) - Co-Founder: Co-creator of XOOPS Project, core developer for XOOPS 1.*
- Skalpa Keo (Skalpa) - Lead Developer and Project Leader: maintainer for XOOPS 2.06+, architect for XOOPS 3
- Jan Pedersen (Mithrandir) - Lead Developer for XOOPS 2.2 branch
Please join us in thanking them for all the hard work they did, for all their support and dedication to XOOPS!!!!
3) SourceForge 2008 Community Awards voting is in place. Don't forget to vote for XOOPS!!! (click here...)
4) We continue with the XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS.
This time for Ricardo Costa (Trabis) and Simon Roberts (Wishcraft)
5) The "XOOPSer of the Month" is Rune Hauge (Runeher), for his countless modules, his work on the International Support Team, and his contributions to XOOPS support sites in Norway, Denmark, and Nordic area.
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
Nat Sakimura joins the XOOPS Developement Team
We are very happy to announce that Nat Sakimura, is officially joining the XOOPS Development Team.
Nat Sakimura is the author for XOOPS OpenID module, and he will be implementing OpenID into XOOPS core for XOOPS 2.3* or 2.4, perhaps with another XOOPS core developer, while DJ will be working with him to implement OpenID into XOOPS 3.0
You can download the OpenID module from here...
Please extend a warm "welcome back" to Nat Sakimura.
With this we would like to officially extend an invitation to all past, non-active XOOPS developers to come back and join us on the journey of making XOOPS the best CMS in the world. We are sure that while you were away, you've learned a lot of new things and programming tricks, from which XOOPS could benefit. We've had couple of rough years, but we believe that we are now on track to something really awesome, and we would like you to be part of it.
There will be more exciting news coming....
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Nat Sakimura is the author for XOOPS OpenID module, and he will be implementing OpenID into XOOPS core for XOOPS 2.3* or 2.4, perhaps with another XOOPS core developer, while DJ will be working with him to implement OpenID into XOOPS 3.0
You can download the OpenID module from here...
Please extend a warm "welcome back" to Nat Sakimura.
With this we would like to officially extend an invitation to all past, non-active XOOPS developers to come back and join us on the journey of making XOOPS the best CMS in the world. We are sure that while you were away, you've learned a lot of new things and programming tricks, from which XOOPS could benefit. We've had couple of rough years, but we believe that we are now on track to something really awesome, and we would like you to be part of it.
There will be more exciting news coming....
Fisconelmondo.it and AlessandroBonelli.it with XOOPS!
Fisconelmondo.it (May 2005) and Alessandrobonelli.it (August 2007) are two Italian websites published with a relatively long time difference from each other, but they share a common denominator, the Xoops platform!
Both sites have been developed by me in a short time, thanks to the famous qualities and implementation possibilities shared by Xoops, that are well known salient characteristics of this platform.
http://www.Fisconelmondo.it, an open window on international economics, is an institutional webzine realized for the agency I work for as an IT specialist (you won't need much time to understand which one it is if you take a look at the site).
The original idea was created by the communications’ director that considered the IT panorama as mature enough for an editorial product focused on international economics. The webzine offers to the reader analysis and comments on tributary European and extra-European legislation, indications on latest developments in terms of normative and laws of UE and extra-European countries, lessons on international economic laws and a glossary of most common terms in the commercial field. Moreover, it grants access to the useful Country charts: these charts allow the reader to gather information on institutional, economical and tributary laws and rules of many countries in the world, mostly European ones, in an easy and swift way (just by clicking on the country map). Last, on the site, the reader is also able to obtain many updated documents regarding rules on VAT and double impositions tax matter useful to understand actual laws and economical treatment on different European countries and other of UEM (monetary and economic Union). Before it all started to exist, there was a similar by contents product, published and distributed on paper, that was subsequently developed as a .pdf file (the MemoEntrate). This next step represents a more compliant product, in terms of quality and usefulness in accessing different contents.
The site grew constantly and linearly in time, reaching 1500 visits per day, with peaks of 1800. For being such a “specialized” site, for the kind of arguments reported, the results are more than appreciable and the site, right now, represents a well known tool in the panorama of Italian sites regarding economics.
The second site is my own personal one, that I developed for playing a bit and for sharing what I like with friends and colleagues. Number of visits doesn’t concern me much, as it is 100 times smaller than the numbers obtained by http://www.Fisconelmondo.it. Before I created this site, I also spent some time developing another personal site, that I developed by HTML (old times, old times…) using the always excellent Dreamweaver. Slowness in updating pages and connected technical difficulties were obviously too hard to keep it that way, so a step in the direction of a content manager was necessary in order to make the website ddynamic.
The construction of the site followed a well defined path: first of all the research of nice and easily modifiable templates (with style sheets well developed and with little/without tables), the customization of modules completing the core, the customization of a professional hosting (fitting for real necessities of security and performance). More than this predominantly technical requisites, the concept part of creation was the one to require more time than the other ones and more resources (as it was supposed to be). http://www.Fisconelmondo.it had to possess a long series of services like articles, RSS, a fast research motor for inside the site, a newsletter, all with a simple and efficient style, so that reader’s attention could be focused on contents instead on the creating the the contents. On the contrary, in my site, I’ve been able to play on multimedial contents, adding then, i.e., videos, dictionaries, images from Meteosat.
Sites have recently been updated with last version of Xoops (2.0.18.1). Among installed modules:
* C-Jay Content e Edito (static contents)
* News e SmartSection (dynamic contents)
* Liaise (contact modules)
* Wordbook e Lexicon (glossary/dictionaries)
* MultiMenu (dynamic menu)
* Protector (security management)
* xhld (external rss management)
* MyAlbum-P (images managing)
* SmartPartner (external link management)
* WebShow (video management)
For the ones already translated in Italian, customization working was relatively easy; for the other ones, I had to work hard in order to translate user interface (for the backoffice, English worked good).
Sites were developed using Windows with Wamp and Notepad++/Ultraedit. Using Firebug extension in Firefox, in order to clean the code and reach the so much desired XHTML validation 1.0 and CSS, was of great aid. The passage to Unix/Linux for the chosen hosting was not difficult, except for settling all permissions on files/directories in the correct way.
Among problems encountered and “learned lessons”, I could mention:
- The importance of continuously making a backup of the site and database (for this last one, take care of codification in the export phase, as if it’s incorrectly made, it causes the lost of characters, typical of non-English languages);
- The importance of writing easy to understand manuals for articles’ writers,(this for Fisconelmondo.it only) as it is essential in order to get rid of a necessary cooperation, that can be real hard if lasts for long times, without being able to release what has been created for the final user;
- The optimization of the site by an accurate managing of caching mechanisms can make delivery of contents much more effeccive
- Many problems were encountered for the XHTML validation, especially with MultiMenu module, that needed a substantial restyling.
Alessandro Bonelli
Gianluca Di Muro (Chief editorial staff for Fisconelmondo.it)
Comments?
Both sites have been developed by me in a short time, thanks to the famous qualities and implementation possibilities shared by Xoops, that are well known salient characteristics of this platform.
http://www.Fisconelmondo.it, an open window on international economics, is an institutional webzine realized for the agency I work for as an IT specialist (you won't need much time to understand which one it is if you take a look at the site).
The original idea was created by the communications’ director that considered the IT panorama as mature enough for an editorial product focused on international economics. The webzine offers to the reader analysis and comments on tributary European and extra-European legislation, indications on latest developments in terms of normative and laws of UE and extra-European countries, lessons on international economic laws and a glossary of most common terms in the commercial field. Moreover, it grants access to the useful Country charts: these charts allow the reader to gather information on institutional, economical and tributary laws and rules of many countries in the world, mostly European ones, in an easy and swift way (just by clicking on the country map). Last, on the site, the reader is also able to obtain many updated documents regarding rules on VAT and double impositions tax matter useful to understand actual laws and economical treatment on different European countries and other of UEM (monetary and economic Union). Before it all started to exist, there was a similar by contents product, published and distributed on paper, that was subsequently developed as a .pdf file (the MemoEntrate). This next step represents a more compliant product, in terms of quality and usefulness in accessing different contents.
The site grew constantly and linearly in time, reaching 1500 visits per day, with peaks of 1800. For being such a “specialized” site, for the kind of arguments reported, the results are more than appreciable and the site, right now, represents a well known tool in the panorama of Italian sites regarding economics.
The second site is my own personal one, that I developed for playing a bit and for sharing what I like with friends and colleagues. Number of visits doesn’t concern me much, as it is 100 times smaller than the numbers obtained by http://www.Fisconelmondo.it. Before I created this site, I also spent some time developing another personal site, that I developed by HTML (old times, old times…) using the always excellent Dreamweaver. Slowness in updating pages and connected technical difficulties were obviously too hard to keep it that way, so a step in the direction of a content manager was necessary in order to make the website ddynamic.
The construction of the site followed a well defined path: first of all the research of nice and easily modifiable templates (with style sheets well developed and with little/without tables), the customization of modules completing the core, the customization of a professional hosting (fitting for real necessities of security and performance). More than this predominantly technical requisites, the concept part of creation was the one to require more time than the other ones and more resources (as it was supposed to be). http://www.Fisconelmondo.it had to possess a long series of services like articles, RSS, a fast research motor for inside the site, a newsletter, all with a simple and efficient style, so that reader’s attention could be focused on contents instead on the creating the the contents. On the contrary, in my site, I’ve been able to play on multimedial contents, adding then, i.e., videos, dictionaries, images from Meteosat.
Sites have recently been updated with last version of Xoops (2.0.18.1). Among installed modules:
* C-Jay Content e Edito (static contents)
* News e SmartSection (dynamic contents)
* Liaise (contact modules)
* Wordbook e Lexicon (glossary/dictionaries)
* MultiMenu (dynamic menu)
* Protector (security management)
* xhld (external rss management)
* MyAlbum-P (images managing)
* SmartPartner (external link management)
* WebShow (video management)
For the ones already translated in Italian, customization working was relatively easy; for the other ones, I had to work hard in order to translate user interface (for the backoffice, English worked good).
Sites were developed using Windows with Wamp and Notepad++/Ultraedit. Using Firebug extension in Firefox, in order to clean the code and reach the so much desired XHTML validation 1.0 and CSS, was of great aid. The passage to Unix/Linux for the chosen hosting was not difficult, except for settling all permissions on files/directories in the correct way.
Among problems encountered and “learned lessons”, I could mention:
- The importance of continuously making a backup of the site and database (for this last one, take care of codification in the export phase, as if it’s incorrectly made, it causes the lost of characters, typical of non-English languages);
- The importance of writing easy to understand manuals for articles’ writers,(this for Fisconelmondo.it only) as it is essential in order to get rid of a necessary cooperation, that can be real hard if lasts for long times, without being able to release what has been created for the final user;
- The optimization of the site by an accurate managing of caching mechanisms can make delivery of contents much more effeccive
- Many problems were encountered for the XHTML validation, especially with MultiMenu module, that needed a substantial restyling.
Alessandro Bonelli
Gianluca Di Muro (Chief editorial staff for Fisconelmondo.it)
SEO Paths & .htaccess
Well as you may have noticed I have been doing some examples in the wiki for .htaccess this is for primarily SEO Clean Paths for xoops, the modules I have chosen for the example in sharing this code is code for CBB (1.5, 2.2, 3.x), News 1.4+ (May work on earlier), myalbum-P, SmartSection 2.2, CatAds & the userinfo.php page.
What I have been doing over the last few weeks is testing various SEO paths to see what brings ultimate traffic, remember in changing your websites URL you may get sandboxed for a few months as the search engine detects a sitewide change.
Search Engine Optimization is an important step in making friendly paths for both Search Engines and the End Users, you normal for example use a dash (-) not an underscore (_) to SEO as this is detected and more compatible with a search engine algoritms, it is also helpful for natural language query.
You may also find various other SEO improvements you can make to stop keyword stuffing (Example Titles to Keywords) and so on my wiki profile page (these are deep in the forums).
Some example of some friendly SEO paths I have generated are as so:
Content 1.x: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/content/Introduction-to-ETE/1
News 1.4: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/news/This-Website/SEO-Paths/14
MyAlbum-P 1.5: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/gallery/Ancient-History/3,0,10,0,1,titleA
wflinks: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/weblinks/Alien-Information/2,0,0,0,dateA
CBB 3.08: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/forums/ETE-General-Topic/New-Toliet-for-the-Space-Station/8,46,65,0,0,0,0
userinfo.php http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/user/wishcraft/1
Remember these SEO paths will increase traffic and delievery into your search engines, you must use a 301 Permanently Moved Redirection as this will remove the old link from the search engine and replace it with the new one.
The general rule for an SEO path is to contain something to do with the title, area of the site and category, remember to include at least the item identification number if possible for legal reasons.
SEO is a big step in improving the cleanliness of your site, as well as your image, we will be doing this here at xoops.org in the not to distant future.
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What I have been doing over the last few weeks is testing various SEO paths to see what brings ultimate traffic, remember in changing your websites URL you may get sandboxed for a few months as the search engine detects a sitewide change.
Search Engine Optimization is an important step in making friendly paths for both Search Engines and the End Users, you normal for example use a dash (-) not an underscore (_) to SEO as this is detected and more compatible with a search engine algoritms, it is also helpful for natural language query.
You may also find various other SEO improvements you can make to stop keyword stuffing (Example Titles to Keywords) and so on my wiki profile page (these are deep in the forums).
Some example of some friendly SEO paths I have generated are as so:
Content 1.x: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/content/Introduction-to-ETE/1
News 1.4: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/news/This-Website/SEO-Paths/14
MyAlbum-P 1.5: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/gallery/Ancient-History/3,0,10,0,1,titleA
wflinks: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/weblinks/Alien-Information/2,0,0,0,dateA
CBB 3.08: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/forums/ETE-General-Topic/New-Toliet-for-the-Space-Station/8,46,65,0,0,0,0
userinfo.php http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/user/wishcraft/1
Remember these SEO paths will increase traffic and delievery into your search engines, you must use a 301 Permanently Moved Redirection as this will remove the old link from the search engine and replace it with the new one.
The general rule for an SEO path is to contain something to do with the title, area of the site and category, remember to include at least the item identification number if possible for legal reasons.
SEO is a big step in improving the cleanliness of your site, as well as your image, we will be doing this here at xoops.org in the not to distant future.
My Tabs 1.0
What is mytabs Module (v1.0) ?
======================
With this Xoops module, your can create blocks with several tabs an blocks inside.
The module can :
. Create any blocks you want (just clone the original)
. Create any pages (holders for tabs) you want so you can choose in the block what page to show
. Create any tabs you want per page
. Create any blocks you want per tabs
. Set group view permissons per block/page, tab and block
. Set time based tabs and blocks (auto-expiring)
. Choose from 5 diferent page/block layouts
. Use how many blocks you want in the same page or not (just clone and set them)
. Many other goodies like cache, position, scroll, width, etc
Demo here:
http://www.xuups.com
Download here:
http://code.google.com/p/xuups/downloads/list
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With this Xoops module, your can create blocks with several tabs an blocks inside.
The module can :
. Create any blocks you want (just clone the original)
. Create any pages (holders for tabs) you want so you can choose in the block what page to show
. Create any tabs you want per page
. Create any blocks you want per tabs
. Set group view permissons per block/page, tab and block
. Set time based tabs and blocks (auto-expiring)
. Choose from 5 diferent page/block layouts
. Use how many blocks you want in the same page or not (just clone and set them)
. Many other goodies like cache, position, scroll, width, etc
Demo here:
http://www.xuups.com
Download here:
http://code.google.com/p/xuups/downloads/list
Roussin Academy Reunion
Our new "Roussin Academy Reunion" website is a good exemple of what an "alumni get together" site should look like.
We used many different modules such as: mx-directory, yogurt, extcal, mastop publish, liaise and smartpartner.
http://www.roussinacademy.com
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