phpwcms Support Forum

Excellent!

Thanks Oliver. So you are addressing my concerns. Great!
Just out of curiosity, what will be the default CSS styles associated with each div?
Will they use absolute positioning? Or will a 'liquid' layout be the default?

yes but have you actually tried to use the CSS Div option? Its not exactly user friendly.

If I want to build an all CSS layout, I typically place all my design elements into the Main block and stay away from using the built-in left/right columns. Which is a pity. If only the CSS option would work ...

Yes, you can use CSS for custom designs within phpWCMS. But the underlying structure (if you use the built-in layouts) is tables-based.

This is something that would make phpWCMS much more useable for commercial projects:

Will the basic structure continue to be tables-based, or will v2 use CSS divs for layout?

I think you will have to dig through the php pages to find the default template code. this is not something that is documented anywhere that i know of.

is it really that big of a problem to make one menu selection when you start an article?

yes you can create as many new templates as you wish. they are just html snippets, but make sure you add a suffix of .tmpl to the file (instead of .html).

you can find them in:
phpwcms_template>inc_contpart>articlesummary>article

perfect!

thanks.

OK so I want to do something very simple and logical: make the summary image link to the full article when clicked. Can anyone here explain how I might do this?

Thanks.

SL

Thanks. It works now.

Thanks for the quick reply!

My htaccess file was already named .htaccess by the host and I have changed the conf.inc.php file as indicated. It does not work.

I have phpWCMS located in a directory called /cms...will this affect things?

I have read all the posts on this and still can't get it to work.

Can somebody please explain, one step at a time, everything that needs to be done to activate the URL rewrite function. Please?

Thanks.

OK this is very basic info, but maybe you need to upload some images into the phpWCMS file system?

You do this in the backend by clicking "File" and then clicking on the tiny file upload icon on the right side of the screen (looks like an up arrow inside a 'u'). This took me forever to figure out ...

You mean I have to re-upload all the images and then do FTP Takeover again?


[EDIT] That works, but wow what a major annoyance.

OK so I changed the max image size in conf.inc.php (see below) and nothing happens. Images are still stuck at 299 x 400. How to fix this?

$phpwcms["img_prev_width"] = 800; //max width of the large preview image
$phpwcms["img_prev_height"] = 1800; //max height of the large preview image