Can someone explain how the column ug_grp_id is used? My current understanding of ug_main_grp_id and ug_uid is that the user ID specified in ug_uid is a member of the group specified in ug_main_grp_id. Is ug_grp_id used to assign members and rights of that group (ug_grp_id) to ug_main_grp_id?

Anyone ever think of making a traffic report plugin/block to go with the news and weather blocks??

I've been using Geeklog for a couple of months now and I love it. The only thing that I don't like is that I haven't seen any really different Geeklog themes. I don't mean new colors or logos but an entirely different setup.

Has anyone developed a theme or site that doesn't fall into the standard blocks on the both sides and then content in the middle Geeklog site?

This is more for my own curosity.

Thanks.

I got a little upset again, after visiting a website mentioned here, when I couldn't spot this tiny winy mark or anything whatsoever telling us that this particular site is using GL for managing the content.
Why do people remove the GL credits? I reckon GL deserves being mentioned especially that you don't have to pay for that.

PEOPLE PEOPLE LEAVE GL CREDITS AND LET OTHERS KNOW THAT YOU'RE USING QUALITY CMS!

I've been using Geeklog for about a month now, and am please to say I'm a devoted fan. After trying PHP-Nuke, and PostNuke; I feel like I've found a home. :)

In order to customize my site, I sometimes make changes to some of the core GL files, outside of the usual plugins and themes. I know this will make upgrading harder, but frankly my PHP skills and understanding of Geeklog make it hard for me to "stay inside the lines," at this point.

So, this leads me to ask; what is the current plan for GeekLog developers? It seems 2.0 will be a significant upgrade. Do you expect an operational version of it to be available in the foreseeable future? How much longer do you believe the 1.3 track will be actively developed. What new features are currently being developed? Maybe there's a URL about all this I just haven't found?

I plan on developing a couple new sites in the next couple of weeks, but would rather hold off if an update to GL is about to come down the pike.

Thanks to all the developers for their great work.

for geeklog.net - you should add a 'Section' for users to post info on their GL hosts to help us newbies out.

I'll start the section for you... I use Omnis (www.omnis.com) - under $85/yr for my plan of 50MB / 5GB transfer, Mysql db, php4, 10 emails, u/l aliases blah blah blah

although I got my GL site online and modified to my needs in under 30 minutes - I am unhappy for the simple fact that plug-ins are hard to get going. for example, the gallery plug in will NOT work until the host upgrades server(s)

-Christian
an ASP guy trying to speak PHP

Hi there

I was wondering whether the new CVS server has been fixed to allow anonymous access yet?

If so, I would be grateful if someone could provide the command line login details.

Cheers

How difficult would it be to have GL set up, so when a person creates a new user account, it creates a *nix account on the machine itself?

Or something to that extent, as i run free email services from my machine, and all my email users are actuall accounts on the machine, and i would like people to be able to create accounts freely from the website, prefferably from the GL user creation page, then they could begin using their email services immediately, instead of myself having to create the unix accounts myself

Hi all,

I've been using geeklog for a while on my personal projects (haven't made any announcements yet, a bit too embarrassed about the state of my content), and after running 6 or 7 installs I decided to start taking apart the code. I have a CMS application that I've been wanting to develop for years and it looks like geeklog is probably the closest thing to it. But I would like to make the following 2 changes at a bare minimum:

1) turn articles, polls, and the calendar into plugins; make base install carry only user authentication, search, site stats, theme functionality, etc. This would make it less of a weblog system and more of a CMS.

2) improve the ability to run several sites off of one basic geeklog installation, so that when the base install is updated, all of the sites can be updated at once (and custom hacks can be propogated through all sites at once, if needed). I would find this helpful since it's a pain to update all of my sites every time a new release comes out.

Can anyone tell me if these changes or something like them are being considered for geeklog 2? Or is there another project I should look at that might suit my purposes better? I would like to contribute to the geeklog project if it seems like these changes are compatible with the current plan.

Thanks,

Chris

We are currently working on an internationalization/localization requirements document for Geeklog 2. The debate is that we would like to use PHP support for gettext() as a standard but we aren't sure how many of you out there (even you english-only folks) this will effect. How do you find out? Create a simple PHP page with [code]<?php phpinfo(); ?>[/code] in it and view it. Then do a search for gettext and see if you have it enabled. We'd prefer to use gettext() but if there are enough of you who's ISP doesn't support it we could build in support for the current translation method (with minor improvements).