I am in the process of making a small website for a Beer tasting club im in. I want a website where we can upload images from our meetings, keep track of the meetings, of the beers we tasted, and see an online version of the form we filled out while tasting.
I guess MODx can manage this in several ways - but I’d rather ask a bit first, before trying to make it work on my own.
Does MODx have a module that will enable to me easily create entries in a database, and then output them in a template? I want to save the ratings from the form for each member in a database, and then show each members results on the page for the beer.
I am no programmer, so making a module from scratch is out of the question.
Can MODx help me with a site like this, or does it require alot of custom code to acomplish ?
The MaxiGallery snippet will definitely take care of your photos. The rest, I think, could be accomplished with the eForm and eForm2db snippets.
I don’t think you’d have to write any custom code, but I could be wrong. At any rate, you’d have to spend some time learning how those snippets work and then some more time getting things to look the way you want. (not to mention learning MODx itself).
I’m not sure MODx is for you, but if you want to do what you’ve described, I think MODx might be the easiest way to do it. I don’t think any other CMS would make it any easier and doing it outside a CMS would require quite a bit of custom coding.
In MODx, you’d also have the very helpful development community here to ask when you got stuck.
Bob
I think so...
And you have already gotten the attention of one of the most helpful guys on this forum: BobRay
Max
The only place I could find eform2db was here:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,8111.0.html but, apparently, it’s still a Beta version.
Bob
If you know your way around XHTML and CSS then MODx should work for you. Bottom line is that you will have to invest time in figuring out things work with any CMS system. MODx is no exception. I find I spend a lot more time in figuring out how to implement the snippets and the calls than I do getting the design to work. With the other CMS systems I found that there was a lot of heavy lifting to do when it came to implementing your own design: having that full "out the box" experience meant hacking other themes apart. I have my feet much more firmly planted in the design world than the programming world and I find that MODx suits me design wise. Its the snippets, permissions, and PHP errors that trip me up.
Most questions have been asked in some manner before so get used to the forum search engine. Sometimes it takes several attempts at entering the right search words or phrases. Sometimes the thing I then battle with is that the answers provided can some times confuse you more: the jargon or advice assumes a specific knowledge which not everyone has.
Can’t address the eform question but you might want to try the spform as well. Search for it...
Max
Quote from: Photowebmax at Feb 03, 2008, 11:38 AM
Can’t address the eform question but you might want to try the spform as well. Search for it...
Max
SPForm is here:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,19357.0.html
But I don’t think it will meet the OP’s needs. SPForm is just a simple "contact us" form. You can’t add fields and it won’t interact with the db in any way. It’s just an easier solution for people who don’t need the power of eForm.
Bob
