racefanatic

Hello everyone I have setup the (random image) module and can't for the life of me get this thing figured out what I want to do is set it up so all the images I have on my site will show up here of course. I also setup a new module (drivers pages & pics) that i created, my thought was to have several pages listed here that link you to there own images and I'm stuck I figured I better get somehelp befor I screwup somemore. here is a link to my site so you will see what I am trying to do, Oh one other question, when you get to my site I wnat to have an intro page linked to (Home) I have tried this and it keeps getting messed up,I'm a bit confused with all the diffrent items like (News)(The News)(Newsflashes) it seems kind of redundent to me to have so many listing of news items

sps

Hi,

Let's see if I can help.

1- Random Image Module
All you need for this to work is to specify in the module parameters the folder with the images you want displayed.
Just use your favorite ftp soft to upload them in to something like /images/random

2 - News.
This is quite confusing, you're right, Although Mambo is powerfull the learning curve is a bit steep.
The primary reason for this imho is the nomenclature used.

So:

Sections - This are the top containers. Think of this as the sports section of a newspapper.
The categories are the different sports and inside each one there can be more sub-categories, these in turn contain the news items.
Newsflashes are just a type of news.

Using the motor sports supllement of a newspapper as an analogy it would be something like this:

Section - Sports supllement
Categorie1 - Rally
categorie2 - F1
Categorie3 - Nascar

Categorie1 - Subaru wins again (item1)
Improvments in motor increase Peugeut's chances (item2)

Categorie2 - Schumaker unstopaple (item1)
and so forth. (item x)


Cheers

racefanatic

Thanks sps I'll try and decipher some of this to see if I cant make it work this is getting towards what I'm looking for any more suggestions would be helpful also.

racefanatic

Ok sps I tried to set the parms in the random images folder but nothing happens on the frontpage, here's what I have on the parms screen


Parameters
Image Type: jpg/gif
Image Folder:images/dalesr
Link:
Width (px):
Height (px):
Module Class Suffix:

I've tried to set these diffrently but to no avail,any other suggestions

sps

Ok,

I think now all you have to select is the module position, start with All.
Also, don't forget the trailing slash before your folder, it should be:
/images/dalesr

A default width is also a good idea


Cheers.

racefanatic

sps thanks for all the help but it isnt working I have tried everything you suggested and then some, the mod; is set to all I have the folder setup as /images/dalesr or /images/dalesr/ and nothing

sps

Damnit... It should work...
Make sure that you don't specify a width that's larger than your column, also, make sure the termination of your files is .jpg and not .JPG.


Hope this helps...

racefanatic

Ok here are the parms I have set

Parameters
Image Type:png/jpg/gif
Image Folder: /images/RustyWallace
Link:
Width (px): 100
Height (px):60
Module Class Suffix:

I have even changed the folder to lower case and still nothing works,I really want to use this function but if I cant get to work I guess I'll just ditch the Idea...

sps

Hmm,

What I meant was that you have to correspond exactly the names of the folders (I'm assuming you're using Linux) bacause they're case sensitive..
See if that helps.

rberardo

Ok! And the Link can point to the random image???? How???

Thx