common questions.
I've been collecting common mistakes and errors from the comments every now and then. Here they are (just a few at the moment). Might be useful to add some to the end of the FAQ.Cheers,
Euan.
Q: Is there any way to disallow anonymous comment posting? I want to ensure that only valid users can post a comment.
A: Yes, you can. Set $_CONF['commentsloginrequired'] = 1; in your config.php.
Q: How does one post a dollar sign in a story?
A: It's a bug in Geeklog that should be resolved when 1.3.6 comes out. Use $ as a workaround until then.
Q: How do I create a page of "FAQs", "Are you secure?", "Downloads" etc. like the ones on GeekLog? Is this some plugin?
A: These are static pages. Just create a new static page and check the "add to menu" option so that they are added to your menu bar.
Q: Is there any way of getting the backslashes to appear in a story without them being stripped?
A: Try submitting in HTML mode and use the char code for \ \ or use double backslashes in text mode (no preview - just submit). If you edit, you will need to reenter the double bakslashes as one will be stripped.
Q: How I create a new theme? What the files I have change?
A: There's a theme how-to in your docs directory - start there. Themes start with header.thtml which builds the site's header and then goes on to include the left column of blocks (look for the variable left_blocks and the leftblocks.thtml file). The middle part of a site is built of the stories (storytext.thtml / storybodytext.thtml). The footer.thtml file then builds the right column of blocks (variable right_blocks, file right_blocks.thtml) and the site's footer. Blocks themselves consist of the blockheader.thtml and blockfooter.thtml files.
Q: I get an error like this with "permission denied": what's wrong? Warning: fopen("/var/www/html/blog/geeklog/logs/error.log", "a") - Permission denied in /var/www/html/blog/geeklog/public_html/lib-common.php on line 809
A: You have not set your directory permissions correctly. Read the installation instructions again or run http://yoursite/admin/install/check.php to see what is wrong.