Xigg

What is Xigg?

Xigg allows site administrators to maintain a community-based news article popularity website like digg.com. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. The functionality of Xigg can be further extended by installing various plugins.

Real running Xigg instances (XOOPS Cube module version) can be viewed on the following sites:

XOOPS Cube International Support Site

http://xoopscube.org/modules/news/

XOOPS Cube Japan

http://xoopscube.jp/news

Xigg English Support Site

http://en.xigg.org/modules/blog/

Xigg Japanese Support Site

http://ja.xigg.org/modules/blog/

Download

Downloadable files are available on the download page. If you don't know which package to download, it is recommended that you download one of the all-in-one packages.

Installation

Read the XOOPS Cube module version installation manual.

Notes

• PHP Mbstring functions are required
• PHP Gettext functions are not required, however it is strongly recommended that they are available
• After installing the module, the "prototype" plugin should be installed from the plugin administration page

Changes from 1.10

This version doesn't have any additional features to the previous release, but incorporates various bug fixes and backend modifications. Almost all the files have been modified so the version has been ramped up to 1.20 instead of 1.11.

Plugins

Following plugins are included in the core package. Plugins can be installed from the plugin administration page of the Xigg module.

prototype

Enables the prototype/scriptaculous javascript libraries

Akismet

Stops comment/trackback spams using the Akismet API

GoogleBlogSearchPing

Sends ping to Google Blog Search

HTML_Autoformat

Enables auto formatting of articles (auto-linking, auto-paragraphing)

Services_Trackback

Stops trackback spams using the PEAR Services_Trackback library

Text_Wiki

Enables text editing using the Text_Wiki syntax

weblogUpdates_ping

Sends pings to predefined ping servers

XOOPSCode

Enables text editing using the XOOPS Code syntax

ExternalLink

Opens external sites in a new browser window. It also adds a small icon next to all the external links

LinkBubbler

Displays news source website in a mouseover small popup window

TinyMCE

Enables text editing using the TinyMCE editor

CoolTips

Displays cool transparent tool tips using the CoolTips javascript library

dpSyntaxHighlighter

Highlights program source codes using the dp.SyntaxHighlighter javascript library

Lightview

Enables the Lightview v1.0.4 javascript library

LightWindow

Enables the LightWindow v2.0 javascript library

YouTube

Enables embedding YouTube videos within articles