Ah, I should have guessed.

I went in and checked the cell widths in the articles_index.html template file.

Some were specified, some were not. It may not have added up. Firefox dealt with it fine but IE freaked out over it sometimes.

In any case, I've solved a frustrating problem by specifying the cell widths at 100% for the top two rows and 5%, 85%, 10% for the three columns below in the template file's table.

If anyone else has this problem, editing the template and specifying the table cell widths solved it for me

great module! I love it!

Just a question if articles for XOOPS 0.18 supports the SPAW HTML editor.

If not, any plans to add support?

The table widths for articles is different in Firefox and IE.

In Firefox, they display perfectly. In IE, the top articles display perfectly, the lower ones do not. (number of reads table cell is too wide)

Basically, there are two columns on the page, the number of reads column suddenly gets too wide half way down the page.

When I look at the source code, it all looks identical for correct and incorrect sections.

what could be causing this inconsistency in table cell widths?

Is it because I'm using UTF-8 multibyte encoding?

has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks for the reply!

Articles for XOOPS is a great module.

You can see my implmentation here:

http://ajet.net/xoops/modules/articles/

I did need to reset the articles read values so in the end, I used PHPMyAdmin and the SQL query :

UPDATE `xoops_articles_main` SET `art_views` = 0;

to reset the articles count.

I can understand your not wanting to allow users to manually set(or artificially increase) the number of reads. However the ability to reset the number of reads to 0 seems reasonable to me for the webmaster.

Alternatively, you could run a user check routine to see if the user is the admin/webmaster before updating the art_views field, excluding the admin so that only regular users visits update the field.

In any case, thanks alot for developing such a great article module. It's simple and effective. I can only imagine the work that goes into something like this. Well done. Keep up the good work!

regards,

David Thomas.

Is it possible to reset the number of reads displayed next to an article. I know it must be a field in the database but I was wondering if there's an easy way to do it without hacking the database.

I've been creating and reading lots of articles in a beta phase. I'd like to clear the read figures before posting the articles module to the general user base.

can I reset the number of reads in Articles for XOOPS O.18?

Ah, now I've got it.

I just updated to 0.18a (I was using ver 0.17) great work! the multi-page feature works perfectly, well done

It's accessible by using the [pagebreak] tag. awesome.

Thanks for the reply!

I've tried inserting a [pagebreak] tag in an article - but it didn't work.

How do you add multiple pages to an article using your module?

please advise,

thanks,

David.

some other article modules allow a [pagebreak] tag to break a long article into pages. Does your module have such a feature?

It's a great module, clean and simple and I would prefer it to the others if only it supported multi-page articles!