Something extra...

[grinningdog]

I'm extremely new to all this so I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place/wrong format or just plain wrong.

I work for a charity in the UK and our website is currently a mess of ASP apps and I'd like to start again using a more unified approach.  The only reason we went with ASP was that the very first thing I wanted to do was easily available in ASP.  We've got a modified knowledge base, a newsletter subscription/management, a news section and some under-used forums.  So CMSMS sems like a good choice.

But... every year we run a triathlon. Lots of the entrants raise money for other charities too.

To be honest I've spent a long time (wasted time really) trying to come up with an easy method of entry and then results posting. Now, we have an entry form on the website that emails the details to the administrator. These are entered (manually) into an Excel spreadsheet. On event day we enter lots of times into the spreadsheet and then fiddle around converting them into html for upload onto the website.

Crap huh? But, in truth, I've spent money in the past buying bits of software that claim to make this process better. I've also spent countless hours struggling with coding that I don't really understand 

So, I've downloaded CMSMS and I'll have a go at getting it working, but it would be really good if I could outline what I'd like to do for the Triathlon and you could tell me if it's possible. I don't mind struggling with it (I've got a year!) but I'd like a clear understanding that it's possible to begin with, before I get started.

Bear in mind I know a little about ASP but nothing of ASP.Net and slightly less about php!

Firstly I'd like an entry form giving name, address, email, projected times etc. Clicking enter would update the database and transfer the user, with those details, to our credit card processor. Ideally it should also generate an email to the user but I suspect I can just utilise the existing mailform (we currently use and pass on name and address variables.)

In an admin section I'd like to be able to edit all the details. The ability to mass email would be great but not essential.

On the day I'd like multiple administrators to be able to enter times (probably 6 x 300 entries)

I'd like users able to enter their name and see their own times. They could also see the full results and category results (over 50's for example or all male)  I've got lots more detail about what I'd like to achieve, and even some links to other sites presenting results in the way I'd like to.

I'm sorry for such a long message but, as I said, I've wasted a lot of time and money trying to achieve this. As a charity we just don't have either to waste.

I'm used to struggling with this sort of stuff but I'd happily pay someone for dome help and direction if that's what it takes.  What do you think?

Thanks for your help
Bob

[tsw]

hmm, Im not 100% sure but formbuilder module was built for something like this.

You can define your with formbuilder and present it in frontend of the site (not sure if its possible to show in admin part also). If it is only frontend you would need front end users and customcontent to protect that form..

then have formbrowser to show the results. Thats about 2/3 of the solution.

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Clicking enter would update the database and transfer the user, with those details, to our credit card processor

will probably need some coding...

Hope this helps

[grinningdog]

Thanks for the quick response.  I've just got up and running so I'll check out Formbuilder asap.  Thanks for the pointer