Is the articles module cloneable (ie. installing more than 1 copy with different names)? If not, could it be?

It should be - I believe I've removed all of the hard coded path names from the main files since I started it.

The main things to change are:

1) In "xoops_version.php" change "$modversion['dirname']" to reflect the new directory name, and change the three SQL table names "$modversion['tables']" so they will not clash with the default Articles install.

2) In sql/mysql.sql, change the table names to match those you chose in xoops_version.php

3) The only hard coded paths that should be left are in the blocks (these have to be hard coded, it seems), so the directory name should be changed in the four block files in the "blocks/" directory.

When I get chance, I will try cloning it and then write an article on how to do it...

Thanks, Andy.

I made an attempt but the cloned version simply showed the articles from the origianl version.

Oh, I know what I had forgotten - the table names also have to be changed in the SQL code...

For example "articles_main" in:
$sql = ("SELECT * FROM " . $xoopsDB->prefix("articles_main") . " WHERE id=" . $id . " AND art_validated=1 AND art_showme=1 ORDER BY id LIMIT 1");

THese should be renamed to reflect the changes made in xoops_version.php and mysql.sql. The best thing would perhaps be to use a search and replace function in a text editor, as any file using the database will have at least one that will need to be changed.

I shall try and make future versions more "clone friendly".