"Add Page" Content

[sapper6fd]

In CMPS, when you "Add a Page" How do you edit the content, or Add content to that page? Do you have to manualy write all the content from scratch? Do you have to use PHP when scripting it?

[KW802]

Sapper6fd,

It all depends upon what you're trying to add to the page. If you give a little insight into what your goal is I'm sure somebody will be able to point you in the right direction.

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[sapper6fd]

I want to add a Review Section, so every week a new review will be added. Obviously it would have to be tied in with the DB, or would it just have to be a hidden forum to which all info is posted on the page?

[KW802]

I want to add a Review Section, so every week a new review will be added. Obviously it would have to be tied in with the DB, or would it just have to be a hidden forum to which all info is posted on the page?Wow. OK, that is one heck of a open question! This topic really went from "How do I add content to a CMPS page?" to "What kind of recommendation are there for a review system?" which is a totally different thing.

Unfortunatly there isn't one single answer as to which way to go. You could use a forum, as you said, or you could use a hack like v3Articles, or you could use some of the dedicated CMS systems, or a custom job, or......

The best thing I could recommend is to give a summary of what exactly you want your review section to be like both here and over on VB.org -- that way you can get feedback from people who may have similar needs and what their solution was.

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[theMusicMan]

Hi Sapper6fd

As Kevin justmentioned, you are now asking two very different questions. I will deal with #1 first! - the Adding a New Page in CMPS. This is easy.

Create a new template containing the html you wish to see within the new page, call it say.. adv_portal_reviews. When you create the new page, ensure that you name it reviews and that you use the template you just created. Then, simply visit http://www.yourdomain.com/yourforums/index.php?page=reviews and that will then show your new reviews page along with whatever other CMPS modules you have turned on.

Now for #2 - a review type system. You could use v3Articles as Kevin mentioned, but that is another code installation. I think the best way you could come up with such a system would be to use say either the news summary or latest posts modules in CMPS. If you ensure that say your news forum is ID#20 (random figure), then only post reviews into that forum and they will then get displayed on the CMPS page as latest news reviews..!! See where I am coming from?

There is another way of course and that is to duplicate the News module and have this pull recordds from your reviews forum - but you'll need to ask Brian or someone mopre proficient than I for that...!!!!!

Hope this gives a few pointers.... good luck...

[sapper6fd]

Excelent, thank you guys....

One more quick question, I'd like to have a look at the V3 Articals. Is it coded by the same guys as VBadvanced or no?

[sapper6fd]

^ Never mind, found it....