phpwcms Support Forum

kaiocool wrote:ok i did it, now i get Error while trying to connect to table "db_WCMS2"
woopdee doo
I am tired out from all this comp stuff i must doo.... I got other comp problems going besides this, ugh............. OK, So I guess reinstall. bah, I am going to watch a movie.

hello

don't give up to fast!

wow this installation is really bad. Uhh, if I click that create admin thing it wont let me get past that screen. If I click on the create all db tables somethin or other, it wont let me get past that screen

I got it working, now what?

Good Morning

take a look at this!

http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=3,0,0,1,0,0

kaiocool wrote:wow this installation is really bad. Uhh, if I click that create admin thing it wont let me get past that screen. If I click on the create all db tables somethin or other, it wont let me get past that screen

Once those things have been done once... they create database tables -and- entries. In order to be able to do those same steps again... one would have to "remove" those tables and entries created in the previous attempt.

I still dont get why I have to do stuff in pagelayout. Why can I specify widths and stuff in the template thing.
OFF TOPIC: does phpwcms support things like users, comments, and all those other nice things that come with community portal cms's. News thing, like FusionPHP, and things that show newest articles? Or is this competely different. My ideal CMS would be a combination of what I mentioned and the way phpWcms works. Are their any modules I could install that would add these features?

kaiocool wrote:I still dont get why I have to do stuff in pagelayout. Why can I specify widths and stuff in the template thing.
OFF TOPIC: does phpwcms support things like users, comments, and all those other nice things that come with community portal cms's. News thing, like FusionPHP, and things that show newest articles? Or is this competely different. My ideal CMS would be a combination of what I mentioned and the way phpWcms works. Are their any modules I could install that would add these features?

hello

what will come you can read here.
http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=21,0,0,1,0,0

at the moment you can't install modules but you it will come in the future.
also here you have a feature list
http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=8,0,0,1,0,0

and to your Q. You can set the width in the layout! where you see that you can setup these things in the template?!

bah, I dont like doing things like this, anyway I can just make some template from html code and insert the replacement tags? And somehow, poof, that becomes a layout/template that I can apply to specific articles? off topic again, are you using a translation tool?

hello

yes you can do it this way.

no i don't use an translation tool. why you ask?

Hi kaiocool:

I'm a newB too, so maybe I can help you. I also installed the WCMS though the Fantastico (don't ask me about sql). The simple steps to get the index.php working are very simple.

1. Go to the admin section (back end) and go to Admin> Page layout there you define the general spaces of your homepage, if you want so see something in the index.php try some colors in the spaces.

2. Next you will need a template that uses that page layout, the most importan thing is to put there the {content} tag in the main block, and images in the header or other blocks you want. Aslo consider the {NAV_TABLE_COLUMN} to get a menu.

3. Still you dont get nothing, now go to site structure and create the categories you want for your site (the sections).

4. Finally go to Admin > Article and creat an article under the index (website start) and that will be shown in your index.php

Remember that the version that the Fantastico installs is old, i'm going to try to update mine as well because the newsletter management dosen't work right.

Hope this is helpful, if not ask Pappnase, he's the man around here and he's always there

Tidida wrote: Hope this is helpful, if not ask Pappnase, he's the man around here and he's always there

Hello Tidida

Not always i also sleep and work!

@Kaicool

look at this

http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=3,0,0,1,0,0

http://docu.fhss.de/replacement_tags_en.shtml
sorry this is not completly translatet but 99% ready.

I'm think you can find volunters to just install/ setup your phpWCMS!

Watch your movie, and come back later

sweet, yet, I will go with the idea of making the template through HTML and adding the replacement tags. It just seems better for me that way. But after doing that, how would I apply that template to different parts of my site? Because I didnt create it through the backend.

kaiocool wrote:sweet, yet, I will go with the idea of making the template through HTML and adding the replacement tags. It just seems better for me that way. But after doing that, how would I apply that template to different parts of my site? Because I didnt create it through the backend.

hello

slice the table in the parts you need! header , footer, left, right , main. that the simplest way to do this.

i seriously dont like doing it that way though. Like I said, I rather makemy own template HTML document. If I do tha,t I wont be able to load it up in the backend?