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#1 2008-06-12 14:28:53
- thehat
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Events/mailing list-driven site in TXP?
Hi there
n00b here, looking at different CMSes (TXP, Drupal, Joomla etc). TXP sites usually seem to look beautiful.
I’m looking to build a site for an arts festival – in addition to general static content, crucial features are being able to manage multiple mailing lists (with customisable forms to find out stuff about subscribers); a gallery; and an events listing, including being able to update list of venues. The example site from Mosman seems exactly the sort of thing.
All I’m asking, really, is: how easy is something like that to build in TXP? Can be done in a few days/a couple of weeks without too much hassle? (I realise modules will be needed, notably for the events and mailing lists.) [You can assume I’m familiar with installing scripts, and I’ve written my own simple-ish PHP/MySQL stuff before.]
Also, anyone know of other sites built on TXP that do similar things? Thanks!
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Re: Events/mailing list-driven site in TXP?
You’d need plugins. The most tricky part could be mailing-list. There’s only one plugin, bab_postmaster, that can manage subscription to multiple list of newsletter. But if you want two-way mailing-list (subscribers can also send…) then there’s no really a solution: no ML manager for TXP as far as I know. But you could integrate a mailman service or third part sw.
For galleries and event listing there’s more solutions, just google for them or search them in the forums or textpattern.org.
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Last edited by Zanza (2008-06-13 08:36:54)
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#3 2008-06-13 08:02:23
- thehat
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Re: Events/mailing list-driven site in TXP?
Thanks Zanza – yes, looks like Postmaster does everything I need (one-way is fine); and zem_event. TXP does look more elegant than other options so far, so I’ll probably give it a go!
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