Is this project possible with Text Pattern

edZio · 2007-06-08 18:33:43

Hi,

Being new to the CMS world, I spent a few weeks trying to find the right system to manage an upcoming project and found that Text Pattern was exactly what I was looking for.

I have installed it and am now in the process of playing around with it, but would like to know if this project of mine is feasible before spending a good deal of time with learning/development and then finding out that such an idea would be better suited with another CMS or application:

Our goal is to create MANY news ‘sites’, each representing a single city/town, on one domain URL ( that is to say, the web sites main index page, www.siteURL.com, will simply list all the city news sites, and selecting one will bring you to a sub domain. example: toronto.siteURL.com . These sites will have have the typical sections to each of them (sports, entertainment, business etc..).

The reason for these sites being all on the same domain is so that we can manage all the content with only one administration zone (not multiples spread over several sites for each, and store all stories in one DB). The news stories will typically appear only under the city they were written for (a local soccer story for my town only appearing in the sports section of the ‘Toronto’ news site) but in some cases there will be need to issue a cross site news article (this is something I am worried may not be possible with text pattern, since the restriction on categories my prevent stories appearing in other areas. Due to my inexperience with textpattern I do not yet know the best way to structure the site with these sections / categories).

Also we will eventually need to have multiple login accounts, with different levels of content control, so that other users could submit story content into the system, but it looks like that will be possible from what i’ve read so far or at the very least code a new admin zone with php for the other users.

Also, how would I go about having my textpattern article page display a specific article posting based on a variable OTHER then the URL? (such as a php variable for the section name, ie $section = ‘sports’, and only load an article that meets the php criteria)?
I cannot seem to find such a way to write an ‘if’ statement in my page

Is it possible to load a list of articles based on keywords? As in have my Sports article listing page simply load in any articles with the key words ‘Oakville’ and ‘Sports’? This would solve alot of issues (just want to know IF it is possible, I’m sure I can find out eventually when it comes up).

Sorry for the long winded response, I’m just looking for a quick answer if these things are plausible and not actual source code or anything (except in the case of loading an article based on a php variabled in the page, if you could point me to a resource that covers it I would be most happy).

Thanks for any help!

Walker · 2007-06-08 19:03:21

Okay….so, this sounds like something that could be done with Textpattern.

Some things on the server side would need to be done, as well. (Subdomains that load a “section” from Textpattern.)

Last edited by Walker (2007-06-08 19:18:54)

edZio · 2007-06-08 20:12:40

the subdomain use as well as cross category story posting are the main issues i’m looking into.
If i can find a way to post articles based on keywords, then I could solve one of those issues with some scripting.

Any ideas about the loading an articles based on variables (such as any article with a specific custom field value)

Walker · 2007-06-08 20:34:02

I would say make your category1 settings the type: sports, community, politics, etc
Make category2 another division: feature, editorial, etc

And then make the section the town/community it’s for (so that it shows up in that section & then that subdomain)

els · 2007-06-08 21:40:19

You might find this plugin helpful, or maybe this how-to.

edZio · 2007-06-12 15:45:22

Those links look be to what I need, and I will test out the category structures Walker recommended.

Thanks!

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