Need advice

Ok guys, looking for some intelligent brainstorming

My goal is to use MODx as the main cms. I will be custom coding a profile-based "social-network". However I’d like to incorporate a forum, a blog, and video sharing with tags.

I’d like to use wordpress for the blog handling and I haven’t settled on a forum to use (any suggestions would be helpful here too)

So the goal is to have a user visit the site, login, and then be able to comment on blogs, add videos, update their profile, communicate on the forums, and do anything else with just ONE login.

I just don’t want to reinvent the wheel and build a forum, blog, and video sharing, just to incorporate one login to handle all three.

I know what I want, I just don’t know what path to get started down.

Any tips/suggestions would be great. Thanks!

The following addons can pretty much do all you want:

- Discuss (Forum)
- Login (User management)
- Quip (Commenting)

I’m not sure what kind of blog you will be building, but if you’d like to easily integrate all of the above, I’d suggest you go MODx all the way.

For your blogging needs, you should consider getResources, which is a simple and yet powerful addon.

Hope that will put you on the right track

I know Wordpress has the market on "blogs" - but I’ve just incorporated a blog completely within modx that does everything I could ever need it to do in a blog.... it’s a little extra work (arguably) than installing word press but @splittingred has an excellent tutorial in the docs (http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Creating+a+Blog+in+MODx+Revolution) and I just posted a tutorial about setting up an RSS feed (http://www.webandflowdesign.com/blog/modx-revo-rss).

You lose "wordpress" but you gain a whole integrated system in modx... no need to have two logins for commenting.

Revo makes it fairly straight-foward to do everything you’re wanting to do. I’d ditch WP and build it all in MODx.

Adding to treigh’s list:

- tagLister will handle the tagging
- getPage (result pagination)

Hey these 2 posts have already been very helpful. Thanks for the blog tutorial. I’ve looked it over and it’ll be perfect.

Still having mixed feelings on the forums though. I’ve read a few different things on these threads concerning forum solutions (Vanilla, Discuss, SMF, etc)

Anyone have a simplified pros cons list?

Specifically my needs are 2 level forums. Parent categories and topics within that category. Don’t need to go any deeper than that. Preferably lightweight as I don’t need a lot of bulk that comes with many forums. Just a place for logged in users to have discussions.

Thanks again for the previous replies, I now have a workload for this evening

Sounds like Vanilla will suit your needs just fine; I’ve posted some discussion on implementing its SingleSignOn feature with MODx. The latest version of Vanilla has a very interesting-looking API, but I haven’t had a chance to look into it yet.

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,53538.msg309658.html#msg309658
http://sottwell.com/article-vanilla.html

This is with Evo, but the snippet required for Vanilla’s SSO would be much the same; it’s just a matter of providing the values from the MODx SESSION.

I don’t know Vanilla or can advice on which forum you need, just want to say that my favourite is SMF.