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Membership area for posting articles/classifieds
Wondering if anyone knows of a plugin or plugins that allow for members (registered people) to have their own page, from where they can create/edit/delete articles, or classified ads?
The user’s admin page should not be the TXP interface…
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you can try mem_moderation if you want guests/members to be able to post information to the txp database. The article submissions are moderated, meaning that an admin needs to give it an okay before it is published. After that articles can’t be edited, though.
I’ve hacked txp to be a multi-author blog-like site but it does use the txp interface (which I trimmed down using ied_hide_in_admin). It works just the same as txp but contributing users (of a certain user-type) only see their own articles, images and files, in effect giving each a mini-blog of their own. The admin can see all the articles. More infos in this and this thread. It does involve changing the source code and the database (for file authorship, which is not currently supported).
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Hi Jakob,
Thanks for the reply. I am not confident of changing the DB, especially with any changes becoming overwritten by later upgrades of TXP.
What I need is the following, perhaps you or others could chip in on possible solutions. I am willing to pay for development.
1. Users able to register in order to post jobs and classifieds (2 types of article)
2. Users, after login, go to a membership page that lists any jobs or classifieds they posted previously
3. Users able to create, edit and delete any of their jobs/classifieds
4. Two types of users – employers who post jobs, general users who post classifieds such as a resume or advert for their services
5. If possible, tie-in with aMember membership software, which we use currently to manage paid subscriptions from job seekers. Maybe this could entail a 3rd type of user
6. Job seekers – currently they pay to see contact details of job vacancies. We manage this via our own scripts, but its hard to add new things, so a move to TXP would make sense
Hope this makes sense. Happy to hear any ideas on how to make this work.
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#4 2007-07-01 09:04:20
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Re: Membership area for posting articles/classifieds
Txp isn’t really up to this kind of site as it stands, you could look into http://expressionengine.com/
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Hi Lee, EE isn’t really ready for this either. There is an aMember plugin for EE which I guess makes things easier, but I would prefer to use TXP if I could.
My understanding from EE is that it is not ready out of the box for what I want, so I thought I would try TXP. Maybe I (and others if interested) could fund development of a membership plugin.
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jstubbs wrote:
Hi Lee, EE isn’t really ready for this either. There is an aMember plugin for EE which I guess makes things easier, but I would prefer to use TXP if I could.
My understanding from EE is that it is not ready out of the box for what I want, so I thought I would try TXP. Maybe I (and others if interested) could fund development of a membership plugin.
Maybe you’ll give a try to Drupal ? :)
“Multiauthor” and “Multiblogging” features is ready out of the box in this CMS (even we may call Drupal as CMF).
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I got two answers already on the EE forum. Hopefully there is some interest from people here – EE is such a yuck choice! It is a great system, but so hard to find things. I have not found the EE tag list yet, and I spent ages looking!
Come on TXP people, surely more than just me is looking for membership management features?
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I think you’re asking for a lot of quite specific things here, essentially a member edit/post arrangement with its own membership structure. I think you could achieve some of it using txp and a combination mem_moderation and igner’s password-access plug-in if editing after posting is not such a big deal. Perhaps you need to think about whether that’s really necessary. Is it so important in practice: If a job advert starts changing once it has been posted, the goalposts shift around. Likewise if people edit their replies to job adverts later, that opens the door to misinformation too.
An alternative might be to repurpose a forum software for this purpose. In a forum you can limit who posts what where and can read what. Generally speaking people can edit their own posts and can list their previous posts. I’ve used vanilla before and you can do all of that. It has a quite granular user structure (which others have also adapted to fit other user login systems), a good plug-in structure and a completely modifiable templating system so that you can make it look not like a traditional forum.
A while back I also had a look at ekwipment which is the job advert system used on CSSBeauty. They have been very slow, though, and it has been in non-public beta for over a year now.
Maybe there’s some ideas there.
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Thanks Jakob I will take a look at Vanilla and see how it works. Ekwipment seems dead…!
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