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We have a batch PHP process that runs periodically from cron that includes sending an email. We'd like to pull the text for the email out of a CMSMS Page (i.e. the content field). Any suggestions on how to do this?  Would it be just like coding a module or ??  I.e. specifically: what files should we...

I worked it out.  I got over-eager uncommenting lines in the provided .htaccess file.

For my .htaccess file, it was wrong to uncomment this:
putting the comment back fixed it.

Never seen this before with cmsms, but I tend to jump in every 6 months ago as someone convinces me to build a site. The problem I'm seeing is if I copy paste some existing html into a page (with wysiwyg off - or even disabled), when I save it and then come back to edit it, the result is something l...

Tracked this down. The new hosting service has PHP running under my account, so tmp and tmp/template_c etc need to be owned by my account, and they were owned by apache.  I cheated and renamed template_c to template_c_old and then created a new template_c and then everything started working again as...

Ouch, same problem, same CMS version. Moved hosting recently (nicely automated via CPanel), but while I can edit a page, view it correctly in preview, no changes ever show up in the live version of the site. I've checked and opened up everything I can see in the /tmp directory, but still no joy ... ...

I discovered the get_template_vars code and played around a bit more with this and found a solution that works well enough.  In brief, it is: 1) create a master page, e.g. "News" of type News 2) Create a matching template. I used EllNav Horiz/Vert L 1col as the starting point. 3) In the ne...

Depending on your scenario, a value of $page works pretty well.  E.g. see http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/http://p ... 664#p27664.

Since I only have a few categories so far, I'm wondering if there's another way to solve this. Not as elegant, but good enough. Is there some way to pass a parameter from a Content page to a Template? I'm thinking I'll setup one template and add one News sub-page for each Category I have. If I can p...

This seems like it should be simple so I've probably overlooked it somewhere, but I tried! I'd like to have a submenu menu on my News page that uses categories to populate itself. I.e., if I add/remove a category the menu would change accordingly, and if I click on a category it would filter and sho...

1and1.com - signed up for them when they were offering 3 years free. In brief, ok for static sites, but anything you care about using LAMP is problematic for various reasons including: + uptime has been ok, but not great. When it does go down, it can be a while (includes > 12 hrs one time) + suppor...

I think I understand the problem and have a possible solution. The problem is that you're still at the 1st level when you've clicked on the 1st menu, so there is no parent_title to display yet. But after clicking on the 2nd level menu, now parent_title becomes the first level title and displays as e...

ideas for new features  (yes, code would be preferable... I'm working on working on it!). Some of these ideas are inspired (stolen?) from the drupal version of this http://drupal.org/project/gsitemap In approx order of priority + including news would be very useful. in general, more pages means bett...

Ted, thanks for those links. I've attempted to immortalize them in the FAQ at http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... r_Template

Doubtless I introduced some errors, but hopefully its a net gain 

Mark and Genevieve, thank you VERY much for your help. The fix that worked was to put the background on the container div instead of the "h1 a" link. (I also combined the one remaining image into the background image while I was at it.) I did continue to use a very simple table to offset t...

Bump ... help!  Even a quick "That'll never work but I don't have time to explain" would be useful. Or "try fiddling with ...". Or see my website, here, where I made this work, and copy my approach". Thanks!