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Forums Module or Comments Module with multiple users Question?

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:01 am
by Bob
Sorry if the Subject heading doesn't explain enough. The website I'm working on is basically a guide to Night Clubs that will compliment our print magazine. I'm using CMSMS 1.0.4, on FireFox (and so far so good with the general look and layout... loving this!)

What we need/want to accomplish is this:
A Forums/Blog style page that will have subject headings, with images (such as a logo/banner that links to the specific club's website) for all the Clubs we advertise. Visitors will be able to post comments (I like the Captcha Module, but not necessary) and maybe a "ratings stars" feature. We also want to give the Club Owner the option (or permissions) to delete posted comments on his/her section. Obviously we don't want to give the Club Owner all kinds of permissions to edit other Clubs that are listed. Preferably, we like to keep with the same look/theme we have going so far in the website.

We're gonna have a directory of all the clubs we advertise (Address, Phone #, website if applicable)... I don't know if we can have the comments within the directory page or a link from the clubs name to the section where people would post a comment. But we'll definitely need for each club owner to have the option to moderate their section.

I really don't know where to start with this. The only thing that I can think of is setting up another Bullitin Site and  either "inline framing" it or spending some time on trying to make it look just like the CMSMS that I have going. Hopefully I'm making sense. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Bob

Re: Forums Module or Comments Module with multiple users Question?

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:51 am
by cyberman
Bob wrote: I don't know if we can have the comments within the directory page or a link from the clubs name to the section where people would post a comment.
Use News module in summary mode for directory. With "more ..." link you can go to specific club and there's an option to use comments module inside (if I'm right there's a guide in help file for news module).

For rating you can use

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/ratethis/
But we'll definitely need for each club owner to have the option to moderate their section.
That could be a problem, maybe it can be done with a hack  :).

Re: Forums Module or Comments Module with multiple users Question?

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:06 am
by Bob
Thanks for the reply Cyber!

You are kind of on the same idea I was thinking... using the news module.

Theoretically, I could create a "news" ({cms_module module='news'  category='club1'}) for each club, and place all the smarty tags relevent to each "news"({cms_module module='news'  category='club1'} on one content page, and obviously the Comments feature.

I'm kinda of surprised that there isn't a "admin/editor/whoever" feature for the News... I'm still new at CMSMS, but it seems like I could set up multiple editors with various priviledges, and asign priviledges to a specific Content page. ... but could I allow specific priviledges to the comments?

IS there a solid "Forums" module for CMSMS? IF not, could you (or anyone) reccommend a good Forums prog that i can incorporate or "inline Frame" into my CMSMS? (please don't say phpBB cuz that was almost as confusing as my experience with Joomla)

I just really need to add this type of feature to our website (see above)

Thanks again Cybeman for your help, and anyone else who can offer some advice.

Re: Forums Module or Comments Module with multiple users Question?

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:49 am
by cyberman
Bob wrote: I'm kinda of surprised that there isn't a "admin/editor/whoever" feature for the News... I'm still new at CMSMS, but it seems like I could set up multiple editors with various priviledges, and asign priviledges to a specific Content page. ... but could I allow specific priviledges to the comments?
Permissions will be rewritten for coming version 2.0 - or you write a patch for module (with some more permissions).
IS there a solid "Forums" module for CMSMS?
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/forummadesimple/

Needs frontend users module - but it's still beta.

Another one could be

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

But there's no more development ...

Inside this forum there are some threads how to include SMF in CMSms, for instance here

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 785.0.html

If you search a forum for embedding in an inline frame currently I like Vanilla

http://getvanilla.com/

Re: Forums Module or Comments Module with multiple users Question?

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:25 am
by Bob
Cool! Thanks alot Cyber!

I'm gonna look into your links some more (one looked a bit complicated, but I'll see if I can pull it off)