Siteseed assumes that all images/files are "part of" an article and stores them in the "images/articles/..." subdirectory.

However, if you need to upload images "outside" any article (say, to be used and re-used on several articles; or to be invoked from layouts or interfaces; etc) the "best" way to use it (to take advantage of the image manipulation routines) is to open any article at all, click on "upload files" just like you would if you would submit an image on that article, and manually change the address on the browser to use article zero (0) - on some browsers you need to refresh the page before hitting the "browse" button, thus making sure the image gets saved on the "article zero" directory.

Siteseed counts articles starting with 1, so it's safe to use this trick to make sure that images are being saved on a "safe" location.

(Siteseed developers seriously recommend not to upload images on other directories besides "images/articles/..."). In a future release there will probably be an entry for "generic image upload" on the backoffice itself.

If you use https for accessing your config-php it should be https://mysiteseed.com/bo/images/ (notice the "S" in "https:"). This will prevent warning messages appearing every time an image is loaded without a secure connection.

If this path is wrong the images will have broken links.

If you have hardcoded absolute paths ("http://path/images/articles/2/name.gif" instead of "images/articles/2/name.gif")in your article all your images will appear has broken links on the visual editor.

The config.php entry looks like this:

[...]
// the url to the images directory ending in a slash (/) as seen from the backoffice!
$imagesURL="https://zealot.mrnet.pt/sshome/";
[...]

Try placing something like:

<a href=$Print$ target=_blank><img src=images/articles/0/print.gif alt="printer version"></a> Printer version | <a href=$Send$ target=_blank><img src=images/articles/0/friend.gif alt="e-mail to a friend" border=0></a> E-mail article

where "print.gif" and "friend.gif" are icons... you will get something quite similar to what I have in my homepage...

This should be all the help you need on those two... :-)

Note:

You need to create an object listing a certain number of articles for each subject.

In your interface use something like:

<?
if( $article>0 )
{
// get this article topic
$local_result=mysql_query("select topic from ARTICLEtopic where article=$article LIMIT 0,1");
if($localrow=@mysql_fetch_object($local_result)) // is there at least one topic for this article?
{
$mytopic= $localrow->topic;

// make a topic relate to a certain page object...
if($mytopic==1) { $headline=12;} // news - just the last 10 titles
if($mytopic==2) { $headline=23;} // some of Gods greatest mistakes - just the last 10 titles
if($mytopic==3) { $headline=23;} // some of Gods greatest mistakes - just the last 10 titles
if($mytopic==4) { $headline=24;} // more of Gods greatest mistakes - just the last 10 titles
if($mytopic==5) { $headline=25;} // who is this God person anyway? - just the last 10 titles
if($mytopic==7) { $headline=44;} // sex in the ants world,
// etc...

// show the page object containing the related items...
include"object/show.php";
}
}
?>

This is pseudo code (I have not tested it) but should be pretty close to real thing...

You control what articles appear on pages (and how they appear) with page objects. The exception being to display a single article since you can call it directly.

Check out the page object you are using (editor menu) and http://www.siteseed.org/manual/article20visual1.html for the command reference.

Put something like this in the Interface program:

[...]
$headline=53; # the number of your page object
include "object/show.php"
[...]

for articles use:

[...]
$article=53; # the number of your page object
include "article/show.php"
[...]


You can combine an unlimited number of objects in the same page...

Note: