Re: EternalGaming and Xaraya

Wow I have to say you all have thought of everything a dev would need. I
cant wait to get a good look at the code and start making mods.

Thank you for all the help.

Hw hard do you think it woiuld be for me to inagrate Xaraya with IVB, you
know the free one thats slightly nicer then phpBB....

Well not intagreat but have then share the user DB's

Thjanks for your input.

mikespub wrote:

> In article <bc1aqr$7vu$1-111RdWWlOxkOkXtL6OYfHgC/[email protected]>, [email protected]
(Robert Town Jr.) wrote:
> >Hi there Fellow Xaraya Users, how are you?
> >
> >My sire Eternal Gaming (http://www.eternalgaming.com) is using Xaraya, we
> >have been trying for the last 6 months to make our own Content Managment
> >System, but that takes alot of time, as you all well know, Well we found
> >Xaraya, 
> >
> >We thank god we did, but there are some things I was wondering.
> >
> >1. We have a complex Cats system running as you can see. 
> >
> >We need to be able to view all artical types with one cat tree.. as it is
> >I don't think we can, is there a way we can do this?
> >
> Navigation by category is not really perfect yet, but you can certainly do
> it without needed a sub-category for each publication type, I'd say... :)

> For instance, if you go to SimCity4, you'll get all articles (of all types)
> by default now. What you could do -if I understand what you're trying
> to do here- is start category navigation via the "Game" publication type.

> For each game category, you'd have 1 Game article with a summary
> that describes the game etc., so when people navigate through the
> "Game" publication type and the Games categories, they'll end up
> here : http://www.eternalgaming.com/index.
> php?module=articles&func=view&catid=106&itemtype=8

> (enable short urls, and it'll look nicer, like /index.php/game/c106)

> Now that page would provide the starting place for other publication types
> (News, FAQs, Reviews, ...) about that game. How you can do that is
> by adapting the user-view.xd template (or creating a specific
> user-view-game.xd template) to show the links to those other
> publication types.
> [enable "Show links to publication types" in Articles - Modify Config - Game
> and you'll see what I mean]

> Either you move down the <xar:template file="publinks" type="module" />
> tag below the categories navigation tag and you adapt the
includes/publinks.xd
> template to show the other publication types for this category, or you
> get rid of that publinks template altogether, and you add your own links
> there.

> Now customize your main menu to provide the right starting points
> and e.g. add a categories/navigation block if you want, and I think
> you'll be much closer to what you had in mind. Well, that's just a rough
> idea on how I would organise things, anyway :-)

> >2. We have about 10 sites, and we want them all to share a user DB and
> >nothing else, is there a way to do this?
> >
> [untested, so I might have missed some necessary change here]

> If all you want is for them to have the same user/pass on all sites, you
> can change the modules/roles/xartables.php file and includes/xarUser.php
> so that the roles table uses the same prefix everywhere.

> If you want people to stay logged in when they move from site to site
> (assuming they're all in the same domain), you'll need to share the 
> session_info table in the same way by adapting includes/xarSession.php.
> You'll also need to change the session.cookie_path and session.cookie_domain 
> depending on how your sites are set up.

> If you want to share the user details (beyond the basic login info) as
> well, that might be a bit trickier at the moment, since you probably don't
> want to share the whole dynamic_data table. I'll need to think about this
> one for when we tackle multi-sites for real :-)

> [/untested, so I might have missed some necessary change here]

> >I want to thank the Dev team for all there hard work, this is already the
> >best CMS out there and its in beta still.
> >
> >Thank you
> >Robert Town Jr.

> Cheers,

> Mike.