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RichardTowler
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I have just installed geeklog, which i have to say is the best I have tried, and I've tried alot, hehe, but in the end I went with geeklog, but I have a few questions.
I would like to have banners on the website, I thought about adding them via 'static' pages, but when i go to add 'all pages' it only adds it to the 'main' pages, like home/sections, but it doesn't add it to the actual content pages, like news..
Another Question, is it possible to have news catargories? without just having 5 different news sections for example, to add to this, is there an article mod? as I would like to have news, but also articles, of course i could use the news just to add articles in a different section, but I would prefer to have this seperate.
Thats it for now, sorry for the noob questions, don't be hard on me
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I would like to have banners on the website, I thought about adding them via 'static' pages, but when i go to add 'all pages' it only adds it to the 'main' pages, like home/sections, but it doesn't add it to the actual content pages, like news..
Another Question, is it possible to have news catargories? without just having 5 different news sections for example, to add to this, is there an article mod? as I would like to have news, but also articles, of course i could use the news just to add articles in a different section, but I would prefer to have this seperate.
Thats it for now, sorry for the noob questions, don't be hard on me
GameFaction - For All Your Gaming Needs
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Quote by RichardTowler:
I would like to have banners on the website, I thought about adding them via 'static' pages, but when i go to add 'all pages' it only adds it to the 'main' pages, like home/sections, but it doesn't add it to the actual content pages, like news..
I would like to have banners on the website, I thought about adding them via 'static' pages, but when i go to add 'all pages' it only adds it to the 'main' pages, like home/sections, but it doesn't add it to the actual content pages, like news..
You're best bet to make a banner appear on every page at the top of the content area is to add the link the very end of header.thtml (in the professional theme, where is says "START OF CONTENT AREA"). While not a banner, the "Welcome to Geeklog" message at the top of all content areas of this site is similar to what you want to do (if I understand correctly what your asking for).
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Quote by RichardTowler: Another Question, is it possible to have news catargories? without just having 5 different news sections for example, to add to this, is there an article mod? as I would like to have news, but also articles, of course i could use the news just to add articles in a different section, but I would prefer to have this seperate.
Is this about sub categories? Sorry, but I didn't understand it ...
bye, Dirk
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thanks, first one worked, now have working banners on all pages. Basically my site is about gaming, and I used to have it like
XBOX
News - Using News Template
Previews - Article Template
Reviews - Article Template
but they'd all be in one section, for example
NEWS would have catergories
XBOX
PS2
GC
etc
at the moment, I'd have to have
5 different topics, but I'd really just like 1 topic, but with xxx amount of catergories.
XBOX
News - Using News Template
Previews - Article Template
Reviews - Article Template
but they'd all be in one section, for example
NEWS would have catergories
XBOX
PS2
GC
etc
at the moment, I'd have to have
5 different topics, but I'd really just like 1 topic, but with xxx amount of catergories.
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I think to do that you'd need either Toms Menu plugin or Blaines glMenu plugin either would allow you to setup multiple catagories and then make them appear as if they were all sub to the main category
I hope that helps
I hope that helps
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RichardTowler
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thanks again, one final question
when i submit a story, and i try to edit it and press save, it says error, story id already exsists...
when i submit a story, and i try to edit it and press save, it says error, story id already exsists...
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Quote by RichardTowler: when i submit a story, and i try to edit it and press save, it says error, story id already exsists...
Is this with the Professional theme? If not, see The ID you chose for this story is already in use.
bye, Dirk
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thats it, thanks again for the help.
at the moment, i'm trying to get images to work properly, having one issue
the following code
the image2 part is processed, but the image5 section isn'
any advice?
at the moment, i'm trying to get images to work properly, having one issue
the following code
Text Formatted Code
<a href="http://www.gamefaction.com/image/?url=/images/articles/[image5] ">[image2]the image2 part is processed, but the image5 section isn'
any advice?
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Richard
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doh know what it is, its putting image5 in image tags, but is there anywhere round this so it just puts in xxx.jpg rather than
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RichardTowler
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whoops that didn't work right
when the [image1] is processed it puts in the full image tags to display an image, but what i would like is for it just to put the name of the file in.
when the [image1] is processed it puts in the full image tags to display an image, but what i would like is for it just to put the name of the file in.
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Why should Geeklog not put in the full URL for the image?
If you want more control, you could add the img tag to the list of allowed HTML, but then you would have to upload the images yourself.
bye, Dirk
If you want more control, you could add the img tag to the list of allowed HTML, but then you would have to upload the images yourself.
bye, Dirk
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I would prefer geeklog to create a thumb and link to it itsself in the story, from looking at the code, it seems it can do that? but I can't see anywhere in enable it...
for example, when i upload an image, 640x480, I'd need a thumbnail 145x109, and for the thumbnail to link to the 640x480 image...I have my own image viewer, but I would prefer a geeklog template viewer, but thats not important at the moment, whats important is to get the the link between thumb and full image working...
for example, when i upload an image, 640x480, I'd need a thumbnail 145x109, and for the thumbnail to link to the 640x480 image...I have my own image viewer, but I would prefer a geeklog template viewer, but thats not important at the moment, whats important is to get the the link between thumb and full image working...
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I assume you're looking for this:
// the smaller image link to the unscaled image.
$_CONF['keep_unscaled_image'] = 0; // 1 = keep original images
bye, Dirk
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// When set to 1, Geeklog will keep the original, unscaled images and make// the smaller image link to the unscaled image.
$_CONF['keep_unscaled_image'] = 0; // 1 = keep original images
bye, Dirk
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RichardTowler
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unfortuatly I don't have any of those things needed for that to run
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RichardTowler
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I got it to over right the max file size, but it does no resizing or thumb link etc unfortuatly
the only way I could see it to work I think, is in admin/story.php
there is a section that changes the [image1] to full html image code, and there is a $norm $left $right, would it be possible to change the $left line, so it just displays the name of the image itsself, rather than converting it to html image code?
the only way I could see it to work I think, is in admin/story.php
there is a section that changes the [image1] to full html image code, and there is a $norm $left $right, would it be possible to change the $left line, so it just displays the name of the image itsself, rather than converting it to html image code?
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Quote by RichardTowler: I got it to over right the max file size, but it does no resizing or thumb link etc unfortuatly
So what did it do instead? Are you sure you've set up Geeklog correctly to use NetPBM?
Quote by RichardTowler: would it be possible to change the $left line, so it just displays the name of the image itsself, rather than converting it to html image code?
A lot is possible but you're pretty much on your own here. And you would have to make those changes again when a new version of Geeklog comes out ...
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RichardTowler
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all the error I get is
Image, 20050216-t004_780.jpg had trouble being resized:
Image, 20050216-t004_780.jpg had trouble being resized:
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RichardTowler
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update, I have got it working, thanks alot for your help, appreciate it, and thanks for putting up with me
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RichardTowler
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http://www.gamefaction.com/article.php?story=20050317123819473
things are progressing, but one final question, now that i have the image resize link working, is there a way to change the URL it gives to the image, for example I want to use an image viewer
gamefaction.com/image/?url= (imageurl)
things are progressing, but one final question, now that i have the image resize link working, is there a way to change the URL it gives to the image, for example I want to use an image viewer
gamefaction.com/image/?url= (imageurl)
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