Can I do this Topic is solved

[cmonova]

Ran across this site today while I was looking for solutions for a gaming site. I have used phpnuke, joomla, etc. but have never used CMS made simple. I like what I read and the features of it. My main concern is ease of use for this person. They want to be able to update the info etc in an easy fashion.

My question is they want these features. I have looked on this site and elsewhere but not positive on what all features it will not do. So I figured i'd list them here and maybe someone can tell me.

Needs:
Tournament Brackets (I assume they can create a page and just update that)
Leaderboards (same as above)
Inventory ??  Not sure if there is a module they can put in games they rent and it updates upon checkout? Or they can manually go in and update on the fly?
Photo Gallery (i see this one)
Gamertags  Not even positive on what this is. I"m thinking an image? But supposedly it is like a widget you can embed
Video Can you save video to server and then link it?
E-mial list Can you send an e-mail to registered people?
Database Can you make the registration give you info such as address/state etc?
Forums (I see that)
Blog I believe I saw that
Surveys I beleive I saw that

Ok I know an extensive list but I really don't want to do this twice if I don't have to. I like what I see in CMS made simple and hope that it will accomdate what is needed for this. I really don't want to use joomla etc if I don't have to.

Thks

[Richardo P]

Here you go,

Tournament Brackets  - what's this?
Leader boards - what's this?
Inventory ??  - Cataloguer Module can do this except the checkout bit, perhaps you could get dirty with php and smarty and modify it, or sponsor some one.  Also there is an e-commerce module in development that could suit your needs.

EDIT - In fact i think you could probably handle this with a custom field in cataloguer module.  You would then need to add to you template logic along the lines of:

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if custom field == no
  stuff
if custom field == yes
  different stuff

of course that isnt the right syntax (or even approaching it).  Browse the help page for the module and look at the smart manual

Gamertags - Could probably do this via Front End Users, Custom Content and Self Reg with some smarty logic in the page template.  Something along the lines of:

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check if user is logged in
   If Logged in check username
   Display FEU fields x y z
if not logged in
   nothing

of course that isnt the right syntax (or even approaching it).  Browse the help page for the module and look at the smart manual

Video - I believe SWF Object can handle this, not sure if you could allow users to upload via the front end though
E-mial list - NMS Module, yes this handles this
Database - Front End Users and Self Reg Modules
Forums - The forum module has its limitations but is functional.  You could easily use third part forum software under another address and just style it to look the same.
Blog - Blog Module exists, but personally Ive always preferred using The News Module and adding custom fields.
Surveys - Not sure

hope this helps