I’m looking at MODx for a membership website, which has part public and part member areas.
Access to the member area is defined by data held in our existing membership system (including login username & password). Membership level will also define which pages (and in some cases, part of the content of a single page) within the members area the person is able to see.
Firstly, is MODx capable of being interfaced to an external authentication system such as this without hacking the core?
Secondly, does it have sufficient permissions control, or mechanism via the plugins, that allow/block permissions be set on specific pages, and this permission be defined externally?
If yes to both the above, please could someone point me in the general direction of what I need to be looking at.
I’m a classic windows app developer and have done plenty of ASP stuff, but how CMS systems interface to external plugins is still a bit of a mystery. Also I would prefer to do the external stuff in VBScript/ASP, if that is possible with MODx? Or does it have to be PHP?
Thanks!
Jim
