Quote by Dale:I am not a PHP coder. But for an old dog, I learn new tricks pretty quickly. I will deal with it
If you know advanced Javascript or any C, doing some simple PHP should be a piece of cake.
Quote by Dale:Can I create a frameless version by creating new templates?
Geeklog doesn't use frames. You could easily get rid of the boxes on each side, if you want.
Quote by Dale:I saw on these Forums that there is a Mod to include PHP functions in static html pages. I also read in the Documentation that PHP code can be used with a couple of restrictions. Are there other restrictions as to the code, functions, or calls that I might want to place on static pages? ( I might be needing a lot of them)
As long as you are the one writing all of the static pages with PHP, you shouldn't need to worry about security. Letting others write them, however, is a security risk.
Quote by Dale:Though I will have a section for users to upload their articles, a lot of my content will be articles I have already written. Will I be able to post an index to a library of articles located in the MySQL database for users to call up? I would like an index or search feature that is more sophisticated than "previous 5 articles".
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. The search feature is fairly robust, and you can try it out, above. You can also easily write your own index to often read articles by sticking it in a block or a static page.
Quote by Dale:I did read about URL renaming. But is there a problem with having search engine robots index a GeekLog site? I want robots to see as much of my content as possible.
Currently Google doesn't pick up stories due to their long ids.
Quote by Dale:I have an InvisionPowerBoard BB system that is home to this particular online community now. The user/password information for the board is encrypted in the MySQL database. Will I have to make my members register for the GeekLog based site again, or is there a way to import those tables from the InvisionPowerBoard? Both applications will most likely share the same MySQL database.
It should be fairly easy to write a script to import all of your old users. Geeklog won't do it on its own, though.