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Categories in Home Free
Posted on: February 28, 2000, 1:06 a.m.

Another one of HomeFree's amazing features is the ability to add categorizes to your site. These categories allow different sites to join under different areas and can help provide a theme and community for various parts of your site. Using categorizes is a snap if you follow the follow instructions.

To enable categorizes, login to your admin.cgi and select the categorizes option from the drop downlist.This will take you to a new screen where you can enable/disable categorizes, add new categorizes and set up catagory options.
  • The first option "Categories (Neighborhoods) On:" must be on if you want categorizes to appear anywhere within yourHomeFree script. If you do not want categorizes, do not check this option and categorizes will not show up.
  • The next option is "Unique usernames for each Categories:". This option allows users to have unique and different usernames for each catagory. If you do not check this options, a username will only be allowed once regardless of the catagory.
  • The third option is "Allow users to be in base dir:" allows users to signup/use accounts that are in the base directory and not inany catagory. Enable this unless you want to required users to have a catagory.
  • The fourth and final catagory setup option "Category Name:" is where you should input your catagory name. This name will be used throughout the script in reference to the name of your catagory. You can simply enter the name "catagory" or enter a much more descriptive name, either way it will work.

In addition to simply allowing you to setup categorizes, this page can also be used to add a new catagory as follows:


  • The first option "Category Name (what users will see): " is where you should enter the title name for the catagory. This name will be how the catagory is referenced to throughout the site and should explain the catagory purpose briefly.
  • The next option, "Category Name (what will be added to url): " reflects what will be added to the user's url for this catagory. For instance,if your base homefree member's directory was www.solutionscripts.com/homefree and you typed in solution for the catagory url, then users in this catagorywould have the url www.solutionscripts.com/homefree/solution/account. You must enter data into this field or the catagory will not work.Spaces should not be used unless your server permits them in directory names.
  • The option, "Category Description:" can be a detailed or short description of what the catagory is for and what sites belong in it.This description will appear on the new.cgi for users to see when they choose what catagory to signup for.
  • The options "Category Header for html: and Category Footer for html:" should reflect the desired header and footer files to place on member's pages in this catagory. If you have yet to make a header/footer file for this catagory, you can always add one in later.
  • The options "Category Header for manager.cgi: and Category Footer for manager.cgi:" also refer to the unique headers and footers used for that catagory and for view when a user logs into the account manager. These files can be added/modified at a later time and once again do not have to be used.
  • The final option, "Number of possible accounts:" is a place for you to enter how many accounts to allow per catagory. This can be any number you wish from one to a billion. By using this feature you can limit the total number of users on your system or just monitor how many accounts are in each catagory simply and efficiently.
All of these options can be edited and modified to allow your site to run unique categorizes for your users. Of course, no categorizes have to be used, but should you use them and ever want to update the information in each catagory, the tutorial at this page will help you.



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