CMS Made Simple Forums

Hi,
I am looking for a CMS to develop a website for a client and CMS Made Simple looks ideal. I have a few questions though.

I wish to use a simple login/group system to only allow users that are logged in access to certain content. Ideally i would like a menu block to appear to users who are logged in (as well as deny access to users who are not logged in for that content)

I assume that CMS MS can do this but I can't seem to find that functionality or anything in the documentation? I have come across Front End Users, but this has little documentation and isn't untiuitve (at least to me!) I expect the site to have many hundreds of users and i've read that FEU can only deal with 200 users? I could be wrong though. Any help here would be appreciated.

Another question is, how can I embed simple PHP code into a content page? I have found the FCKEditor source function but when I try to enter PHP it converts it to a comment (presumably for security). The only people who will have editor rights on the site will be trusted users so is there a way to disable this security feature?

I also wish to do some simple data entry forms using PHP and HTML forms that allows logged in users to enter data into an SQL database (probably the same database as the CMS but a different table), is there a module pre-written for this or is there an easy way of creating forms inside CMS MS?

I appreciate any help you could give.

Thanks and regards

Gordon Copestake

I don't know anything about FEU because I haven't had time to play with it yet.  However, as to your question about embedding PHP code into your page content, just create a User Defined Tag, put your php code in there (without the beginning and ending php tags) and give it a descriptive name.  Then, on the page where you want the code to be, simply add {your_tag_name}.

CMSms comes with a form builder module, but I'm not sure how you could get the data into the database.  Someone else will have to help you with that.

To allow users that are logged in access to certain content you need the FrontEndUsers and CustomContent modules.
Use SelfRegistration if the users must be able to register themselves.

There is no limit on the number of users in FEU.

FrontEndUsers, CustomContent and SelfRegistration have extended module help that should get you on the way.

How to embed PHP is one of the developer's FAQ's.

To create forms use the FormBuilder module; to save the submitted data to the database FormBrowser.

Hope that helps,
Regards,
D

Thanks for the hints Dee