trying to find module author or maintainer
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:26 pm
Hi everyone.
I am a php developer and i have spent the last couple of weeks getting to grips with cmsMadeSimple.
The reason was that the client wanted something they would find easy to use.
Being supplied with flat image designs and having to make them into templates and modfiy menus and module output (like news) to suit the requirement has been interesting and although the system is great, finding the right bit of documentation has been tough, and often resorted to print_r 's etc. This is not due to the lack of documentation but the fact that it is scattered over more than one place, with a search that is not great.
This is not a rant.
What i am getting to is that now i have done lots of hacking around in the code, and i plan to use cmsMadeSimple for my next site too, i am thinking i could give back in some way.
What i need for my next site is to display 'articles', no clear spec from the client yet, so no details.
I went to the module area of the forge to see whether there is something there, and sure enough there is a module called article, but there is no home page for it, despite a link and no details of the author or maintainer.
As any of you from a linux background will know, the way it works is that any given bit of code has someone who is responsible for it, and then people wanting to contribute to that module know who to contact.
So... how about something like that so i can try and help with existing work rather than re-doing something someone else has done?
Just a thought and also a request for details on the Articles module.
I am a php developer and i have spent the last couple of weeks getting to grips with cmsMadeSimple.
The reason was that the client wanted something they would find easy to use.
Being supplied with flat image designs and having to make them into templates and modfiy menus and module output (like news) to suit the requirement has been interesting and although the system is great, finding the right bit of documentation has been tough, and often resorted to print_r 's etc. This is not due to the lack of documentation but the fact that it is scattered over more than one place, with a search that is not great.
This is not a rant.
What i am getting to is that now i have done lots of hacking around in the code, and i plan to use cmsMadeSimple for my next site too, i am thinking i could give back in some way.
What i need for my next site is to display 'articles', no clear spec from the client yet, so no details.
I went to the module area of the forge to see whether there is something there, and sure enough there is a module called article, but there is no home page for it, despite a link and no details of the author or maintainer.
As any of you from a linux background will know, the way it works is that any given bit of code has someone who is responsible for it, and then people wanting to contribute to that module know who to contact.
So... how about something like that so i can try and help with existing work rather than re-doing something someone else has done?
Just a thought and also a request for details on the Articles module.
