Can textpattern to the following?

Djemmers · 2016-01-29 11:16:06

Hi,

I am looking for a new cms to devellop the new version of my site.
I have used joomla and modx but was not really for me.

maybe textpattern is more for me?

Can I do the following with this CMS?

Use data in an external database (same server or other then site) to populate data on pages. (lists and detail pages)
Add, delete, adapt entries in that database (through forms on the site)
use my php and sql “knowledge” to adapt/create the above. (create custom php forms and php pages)
create a multinlangual site (easy to add a language/tanslate file)
give users the option to use facebook/google or site registration

This for an event database website where:

users can create an account/change their password
logged in users can add/update/delete and search events.
visitors (also not logged in) can add,search events.
normal users can only acces front end even when logged in
admin users can acces front and back end

tnx for any replies

jakob · 2016-01-30 13:16:52

Most of the things you mention – multilingual user-defined strings, facebook/google login, using non-txp data to populate pages, and multi-user sign-ins and accounts – are not built into textpattern as standard.

With the requisite knowledge and plugins, you can probably achieve much of what you want save for the login with facebook/google. Textpattern is very tailorable, but none of this is beginner’s stuff but if you’re experienced enough, you can probably achieve much of it

Accessing external sites / databases

smd_query (doing custom queries and own output variants with/without txp’s own tags)
etc_query (traversing database, json, other sites using xpath)
rah_swap (temporarily swap database connections within one host)

User accounts management / self-registration / login

Submitting data to the database via a public form

“mem_form” and “mem_moderation” on manfre’s bitbucket account

Multi-lingual sites

There are numerous ways of doing this, but the Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack is the most comprehensive variant.

and perhaps Kevin’s article on event management in textpattern is also of some use.

moon blake · 2016-01-31 11:36:08

jakob wrote #297653:

User accounts management / self-registration / login

cbe_frontauth

cbe_members

smd_user_manager

Hi Jacob,
AFAIK cbe_frontauth didn’t allow self-registration, unfortunately. The only non-orphaned plugin to do this is mck_login
Am I wrong?

jakob · 2016-01-31 18:53:53

Hi moon blake, you are probably right there – I couldn’t remember…

Thanks for filling in the blanks!

CeBe · 2016-01-31 22:06:43

moon blake wrote #297663:

AFAIK cbe_frontauth didn’t allow self-registration

Right.

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