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• Use bossbot to tell people messages when they get back in CMSMS IRC channel
• Debugging CMSMS Templates

• How to use Cataloger module + Paypal to make a simple Ecommerce site - Added: 2007-03-12 12:32:25
  http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,10020.0.html

• IP-Restricted Pages - Added: 2007-03-12 16:51:32
  http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,4799.msg27231.html#msg27231

• Custom Content Module for newbies - Added: 2007-03-12 17:17:47
  http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,4916.0.html

• admin/styles.php workaround - Added: 2007-03-21 20:43:40
  http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,3566.0.html

• EditArea: The Nifty Editor for people who know HTML - Added: 2007-05-04 22:34:25
  http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/editarea

• Use {debug} when debugging smarty problems!!!! :) - Added: 2007-05-10 13:05:02
  http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.function.debug.php

• Easy Database Backup Script - Added: 2007-05-11 16:42:54
  http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php?topic=9472.0

• Archiver: keep an archive of all content edits - Added: 2007-05-13 22:15:09
  http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/archiver

@later tell username your message

(11:39:36 AM) sk3tch: in smarty is there anyway to have it do a php style var_dump?
(11:40:46 AM) calguy1000: you can use {debug} or {get_template_vars}
(11:41:36 AM) sk3tch: that will just display all the variables that the page/template contains?
(11:43:01 AM) bigcalm: {debug} seems to cause out of memory issues
(11:43:10 AM) bigcalm: sk3tch: yes
(11:43:22 AM) sk3tch: thanks
(11:44:55 AM) sk3tch: that's from {get_template_vars}.  is there anyway to have it var_dump or print_r to display all the keys and values of the array?
(11:46:50 AM) bigcalm: sk3tch: {$array|print_r}
(11:46:59 AM) bigcalm: Replace $array with the required array
(11:47:09 AM) sk3tch: bigcalm - thanks

Useful CMSMS modules

• RSS2HTML

  RSS2HTML allows one to consume and display feeds on their site. Compatible with RSS 0.9 - RSS 2.0 and Atom. Features Caching, display limits, encoding and customizable templates. Parsing based on the MagpieRSS library

Useful CMSMS Plugins

• Frontend edit button:

  Hide the 'edit content' button on your website from everyone that's not logged into the backend.

Useful CMSMS related pages

• YouTube - Uploading & Managing Images
  
• CMS Made Simple Forum: Share page content between sites using RSS
  
• CMS Made Simple Forum: [solved] Smarty in Smarty
  "{capture assign='parent_page_alias'}{nextup}num{/capture}"
• CMS Made Simple Forum: Tip: Easily display the content of all sub-pages (child pages)
  
• CMS Made Simple Forum: Multiple domains and sites, ONE CMSMS!
  
• CMSMS Forge: CGSimpleSmarty: Project Info
  and the {$ggsimple->get_page_content('page_alias_name','block_name','assign_to_this_smarty_var')}
• CMS Made Simple Documentation - How to - CMSMS
  
• CMS Made Simple Documentation - User Handbook/Installation/Optional Settings - CMSMS
  The following is the relevant portion of a working .htaccess file with both Pretty URLs enabled and URL Filtering in place:
• CMS Made Simple Documentation - FAQ/Installation/Pretty URLs - CMSMS
  
• CMS Made Simple Documentation - User Handbook/Installation/Upgrading - CMSMS
  "If you're upgrading a bunch of CMSMS installs on the same server and have a slow Internet connection, copy the changed files into multiple folders on your local PC (one folder for each CMSMS install), and then upload them all at once. :)"
• http://cmsmadesimple.org/uploads/media/FEU_plus_CustomContent_Demo_2.htm
  "this video shows how to modify your template so that your navigation only shows private pages to logged in users: Modify your template so that the menu is appropriate to logged in users."
• CMSMS Forge: CMS Made Simple Core: Modify: 1503 - Enables modules called in additional content blocks to access parameters
  "non inline forms replace {content}, inline forms replace the blocks they're coming from.... "
• CMS Made Simple Forum: Customizing your template based on the current page
  
• CMS Made Simple Forum: Get News Article Title Displayed in Page Title
  

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  • Very useful CMSMS wiki pages for working with CMSMS and Smarty
    

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