| Author | GreenNuggs |
| Date | 2004-04-05 22:35 |
| Posts: |  Sorry for the late reply, I've been on vacation all weekend. And thank you for the response Alex.
Most of the packages I've seen are more for multiple public people to register and log in and become members of the site with access to post in certain areas. I only want the end user to have access to read every page, but only be able to reply in both the blogs and the forums. I don't even want to give them a chance to post in any other section (i.e. no even display the posting inferface unless they are a dogwood writer) I want it to look and feel like the NYTimes or Slate with user being able to respond to the author, respond to a blog entry and post in the forum only. I would also prefer users to be registered to perform those functions to avoid spam and flaming. With the layout, I'm not married to what I'm doing, but what I know I don;t want is what I've seen in things like PHPNuke (without the Open  ) where the "modules" are always listed on the side. I want MY modules to be listed (the 10 sections indicated) and be a little more fancy than PHP Nuke (something like the horizontal navbar on this page, but with a little DHTML or javascript for good measure.) The thing is, there are likely 3 or more of MY modules that will be blogs, but 3 seperate blogs.
I think I'm going to install it and play around with it. This would be the 3rd or 4th open source package I've tried so far. None of the others I was very happy with. I've been unhappy with the control over the layout in those as well as the control over the navigation. What I really want is to define a table or layer (lets say in dreamweaver) and make a call to essentially suck in content from the database. We'll see, but if I do choose openPHPnuke, I'll be sure to post here for all to review. Thanks again for your help. |
