IndexU Support

I’m currently in the process of creating some high quality video’s to place on Indexusupport.

These video’s will be tutorials on how to do a lot of things with IndexU. The first two video’s are simple and show

• How to download IndexU
• How to update your license key.

Video’s in the works will be

• Editing pages
• Adding custom fields
• Customizing templates
• Creating and importing databases
• Using the bad words filter
• Enabling and setup of payment systems
• Enabling and configuring plugins
• Modifying links
• Modifying categories
• Hidden categories
• Category setup
• Category pricing
• Sponsored and premium links
• Default fields
• Adding advertising
• Google maps
• Adding static pages

Those are just the ideas that I’ve had. Of course there are many more videos that can be made.

The videos will be hosted on Indexusupport and will be very high quality. At this time I am exploring formats and find the current stand of FLV to be highly inferior. There is just too much pixel loss during the encoding to make these FLV videos worthwhile. I believe the format will simply be swf format which doesn’t have the limitations of FLV.

Videos will be quite large and at least 800px by 600px in size or possibly larger so they will be easily viewable.

Most videos will be available only to paid members as another benefit, but some videos will be available to non members for no cost as examples of the video quality.

Of course I will be happy to take user suggestions and make videos that will appeal to a large audience.

This is an offer for paid subscribers only, sorry

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Nicecoder March Newsletter

February was a short month, and we missed the release date of IndexU Deluxe 1.31 by a few days but it was still released. Here are the details of version 1.31

IndexU Deluxe v1.31 is a bugfix release and contains the following fixes and updates
- Bugfix – Fixed admin menu not staying open after clicking on a link
- Bugfix – Fixed an issue with the sitemap when run by crom
- Bugfix – Fixed an issue with the sitemap using $date instead of $last_mod
- Bugfix – Sitemap on admin panel and cronjob
- Bugfix – Upgrade links
- Bugfix – Moneybookers payment
- Bugfix – Minor Security fix
- Bugfix – cronjobs
- Bugfix – Admin menu active state
- Bugfix – Email template import

- Feature – Recaptcha
- Feature – Update many plugins Indexu 1.3 compliant
- Feature – Update Admin menu on Admin Panel template
- Feature – Update Admin menu for indexu plugin
- Feature – Update browse
- Feature – Add facebook bookmark on Social bookmark plugin

The major new feature for 1.31 is the use of Recaptcha which wil lhelp for those directories that find themselves being hit by spambots.

Our plans are to release 1.32 by the end of March.

Congratulations to mpdaddy for winning the Mod Of The Month contest in February. mpdaddy actually submitted three new plugins for IndexU Deluxe! No specific plugin won as they were all great and extend the functionality of IndexU. You can find them on our forum or on his website at http://www.scriptdragon.com

Starting in March, the Mod Of The Month contest has been suspended wile we run a new contest for a while. Here’s the details of our new contest

Our new contest is a video contest. All you need to do to participate is to create a video showing a tutorial or “how to” about something with IndexU. This could be as simple as how to add a listing, or as complex as showing how to write a plugin. We’re leaving the ideas to you. Then you need to post your video to Youtube. In order for your video to qualify you must post the URL of your video on the forum at http://www.nicecoder.com/community/f57/video-contest-submissions-8283/

The best part is, two winners will be selected each month and each person will receive $50.00.

More information can be found at http://www.nicecoder.com/community/f15/new-video-contest-8284/

We also have a new team member. I just learned about the him a few hours ago so I don’t honestly know very much. His nickname on the forum is pungky and he will be helping to do helpdesk support and working on a new product which is very exciting. I can’t tell you anything about the product yet but as soon as I can, I will.

For the rest of the month I am also offering a special on custom templates for IndexU Deluxe. If you are interested please send me a message on the forum (Bruceper) or send us a support ticket.

That’s all for this month.

The Nicecoder Team
Bruce (co-owner/support)
Dody (co-owner/lead programmer)
John (co-owner)

Sometimes you simply need to delete /templates_c/ but your server won’t allow you.

You get errors like directory not empty or cannot find directory %%F1 and things like that.

For cPanel™ users here’s an easy way to do it.

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The only other way(s) to delete templates_c for some users is ssh as root to the server and then to rm -rf the directory. Lots of users don’t have root access though, so the above tip helps a lot.

Why does this happen? The files are owned by the script, not the user. So you don’t have the necessary permissions to delete them.

On a server that runs SuPHP, this isn’t an issue because ALL files in an account are owned by the same user.