Newbie to CMS made simple needs help! (File Browser / Private content ...)

[khyros]

Hi there !!

CMS made simple is sooo cool. Really! I've tried Mambo, Joomla, PHPNuke and several other CMS' and never found one that I could learn how to use in so little time.

Now let's get to the point. I'm a molecular biologist and aficionado web designer.. ok? Someone from my group asked me to do a web page for the research group and I did this http://www.iiqab.csic.es/rubam

Initially the site was all html and the layout was made with tables.. so Instead i kinda "php'ed" the site. Made single php files for the header, footer and menu, for example, and I called this using "includes". So I use php but no mysql or any kind of database storage. This made it easy for me to maintain the site but also made it almost impossible to anyone else to do so.

Sooo!! I found this CMS. In less than one day (I started last night) I have made a complete adaptation of my site's layout into CMSmadesimple. Everything is ported now, even most of the content (sorry I can't show you this, It's all in my local machine). But I have a few questions


1) We have a "private" are in our site , we call it intranet but it's not such, it's jus a bunch of page we use to keep private content (that is, internal research and telephones for example). Currently it's stored in www.iiqab.csic.es/rubam/intranet which uses htaccess and htpasswd authentification.

Is there any way to set up read permissions in CMSmadesimple? Like ask for userID and password to show specific content? If that's not possible I've thought of installing a second instance of CMSmadesimple into that locked directory.

2) File browser! I can't find any modules that do this. I'd be great if I could have a page on the site with an upload form (for powerpoint files). And another page that shows the directory tree and the uploaded files

Such as:

2007
  I
  I-----April
          I----File 1
          I----File 2
  I-----March
          I----File 1

Is this possible?


thanks a lot!

[khyros]

Oh!! One more thing


If you check the site I posted in the previous message, you'll see that the left menu have top and bottom borders for each item. In fact it was a trick.. every item has a bottom border adn the first item ("RUBAM") also have a top border because I specify a different style for that one.

In my "adaptation" in CMSms using the "Simple left navigation" menu, I get to the point where every menu item have the same text properties and the bottom border.. but I'm not sure how could I trick the whole thing into putting a top border for the first item too...

any ideas on this?


thaks a lot again

[cyberman]

Made single php files for the header, footer and menu, for example, and I called this using "includes".

On CMS made simple you can do it with Global content blocks.

Is there any way to set up read permissions in CMSmadesimple? Like ask for userID and password to show specific content?

For logging in you can use FrontendUsers module

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/frontendusers/

For showing specific content you can use CustomContent module

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/customcontent/

Current MenuManager supports FrontendUsers too

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/menumanager/

2) File browser! I can't find any modules that do this.

Search for Uploads module

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/uploads/