[geeklog-users] New user help

[Tony Bibbs]

Bruce, man, you are killing me.  Here is most likley my last friendly 
response.  Read below

bruce at trianglewebhosting.biz wrote:

>When you say look at the config.php file, does that mean I can download it
>and edit it and then upload it to my installation?
>  
>
Config.php is the Geeklog configuration file.  It is the primary place 
for tweaking the meriad of configuration options in Geeklog.  When I say 
'look' at it I mean, read the file.  There are a lot of excellent 
comments in there that explain what each option is.  You should read 
then *entire* file before asking further questions so as not to irritate 
anyone.

>The ability to include content into my site from elsewhere such as have a
>weblog or rss feed or anything included into a block, which would be like
>targeting it to a frame on the same page would be desirable.  
>
Already suppoted, please read the manual http://www.geeklog.net/docs and 
the in-progress wiki documentation at 
http://wiki.geeklog.net/wiki/index.php.

>Perhaps I'll
>have to use a couple CMS that are linked together to get all the features
>needed.  XOOPS let one include the content in a block and you could write a
>custom block that has your own html/php code in it.  
>
This is the notion of a PHP block in Geeklog.  Again, it is supported. 
Again, it can be found in one of the documentation repositories above.

>Unfortunately it is
>rather ugly for a CMS and doing what one wants is less than easy to get done
>even if it is supported.  Their forum for help is setup poorly as one cannot
>even send emails to one's main email account.  I need that feature to have
>someone get an email that says their post has been responded to and to go to
>the site to read it.
>  
>
The Geeklog forum plugin already does this.  If you can't read the 
manual for that or figure it out own your own please see the author, 
Blaine, at http://www.portalparts.com

>The fact that I can have stories/blogs within Geeklog that are available
>even to someone that I don't have to get to register is a good feature.  I'd
>like to have people register for my site but sometimes there is a need to
>have a direct link to the publication or story, etc. that does not say
>permission denied.
>  
>
Again, read config.php

>I've been looking at collaborating with a site at: myTown.ca that is based
>on a proprietary CMS.  The goal is to find ways to allow any CMS to
>collaborate with any other CMS/blog or any web site, that is to have a
>"community" that is encapsulated.
>
>Tikiwiki seems able to do that but it is less than intuitive.  One benefit
>of that is that one can in addition to including content from elsewhere in
>the site, you can setup individual user views of the site, individually
>customized content.  So, perhaps I can embed my Geeklog site into something
>that will be a portal if you will, that pulls in content from elsewhere and
>keeps you there... a replacement for my.yahoo.com for some friends of mine.
>  
>
Before you even begin thinking about customizing Geeklog you need to 
learn the basics.  Until you have successfully figured out the above 
tasks you will not be ready to tackle an integration effort like this.  
Also, given your apparent dislike of reading reference material, even if 
you complete the above I doubt you have the patience to actually get 
this done.

Sorry, I thought maybe I could have replied nicely one more time but I 
failed miserably.

--Tony