Hey there. I don't know if this is an active forum, but here we go.
First off, in my continuing quest for a perfect CMS tool, I've installed and generally happy with Geeklog. I never knew it before, and I've been using pMachine Pro 2.4 (the final version before EE) and I have always liked pM -- even if it's a tad slow sometimes.
So...since no tool ever seems to suit all my desires, I set about trying to let the two systems share content. My approach was to use the Static Pages plug-in and to create those pages with pMachine tags. The reults are basically fine -- Geeklog is serving up pMachine blog pages...well, the _content_ of those pages.
The problem that I can not seem to solve is that the rendered content from the Static Page (which just contains a pMachine one-liner tag) will _not_ adopt my CSS. In fact, no matter where I place <link ...> tags for CSS -- I've tried putting them with the other CSS tag in the 'header.thtml' file, I've tried putting them in the static pages 'index.php' file, etc.
The content from my pMachine blogs, from my pM 'blocks', and from my pM member pages all comes out just fine ... and the style classes are there as expected. But the styles just will not render.
Is there some Geeklog 'switch' to throw? Is there something that I should learn to do regarding CSS and the Static Pages plug-in?
Geeklog 1.3.11sr1 is what I'm using. Geeklog certainly has caught my fancy, even though it's using HTML 4 and raw tables and mixes content and style like mad. I'm even okay with the fact that tiny pieces of obscure code are scattered all over...it's still pretty damned good for group/collaboration management in publishing (which is what I'm up to), and I'll sure keep using it. I read about GL2, but I'm still going to dive into 1.3x
Maybe I'll end up only using it for some tasks, and then try to link in to it from outside the Geeklog system (i.e., on the other pages of my site).
In case it matters, I elected to install GL into a sub-directory of my main site, so I am not directly in 'public_html', but rather I'm in a sub-dir named 'geeklogs', and that's where I roll from. My admin stuff is outside my 'public_html' directory entirely, so that's where the static pages plug-in resides (of course.
I'm pretty good at PHP, and I'm confident about my server and scripts and such, but I am a total "newbie" with this Geeklog system, so be gentle on me. I can edit and hack if needed, but finding the right files/templates/functions is very slow for me at present (it'll get better, I know.)
Okay, Geek-loggers. Let me know if you have suggestions or pointers for integrating CSS into these Static Pages.
Hey...as I wrap up it strikes me to ask if it might not make more sense for me to try to wrap Geeklog inside my pMachine instead of the other way around (like I'm doing now)? The reason I ask is because pMachine uses XHTML 1.0 Transitional, while GL uses HTML 4.0 Transitional, and so...is _that_ part of my problem? (I don't think it is in this case, because the full content of my Static Page is only one like, a pMachine PHP tag. There's nothing X/HTML involved in what I've entered.)
In general, I would probably want to serve XHTML, which might contain chunks of HTMTL 4, rather than the reverse, eh?
Okay, that should have been a different forum post in another topic, probably, but it seems related here as well.
Enough from me. What from you?
Thanks for the time, and thanks for turning me onto Geeklog!