Re: EternalGaming and Xaraya

The user db share is working jsut fine as i can see it. Sharing between
http://www.eternalgaming.com and http://xaraya.planetmodz.com

Mike Bowers wrote:

> I'm the technical man and PHP coder over at EG. Thanks for the help, i'll
> try these out and tell you how it goes. We would like to share all user
> data (not just login and pw), but for now login and pw will be enough.
> I'll let you know how it goes. If you figure any ideas out feel free to
> email me directly at [email protected]

> 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.