I am building an Umbraco site, and there is a need for a really simple forum (e.g. one level of topics, a simple subject/body form for new entries and replies, that's about it)
What is the easiest way to implement this? I think nForum is an overkill. Should I go with Umbraco API for member management and content creation, of should I use my own prefixed db tables and custom backend implementation?
Thanks in advance
Themos
For small and limited requirements you can surely look at the UFORUM, it is time tested and pretty decent.
It supports membership out of the box...
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/collaboration/uforum-basics
Check it out Hope it helps.
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i think it's too reduplicate , eg. is it possible to combine shipment and payment page , how difficult
is it ?
and can i just not use nopcommerce nop.web project , instead of my own Web project .
thanks !!!
updated: i mean not the default CheckoutOnePage , but mixing payment info with shipment info in one form
nopCommerce is a fully customizable shopping cart; therefore, it is possible to combine the functionality of the shipment and payment pages.
How difficult is it? That depends on your skill level. It is an open source system and if you are a seasoned developer, you will nail it pretty easily. If you aren't, you will not.
As far as your first question is concerned, I will say Yes it is possible to combine both pages, difficulty level depends on your skill set, but as a tip I will suggest you to check OnePageCheckout file located in Nop.Web\Views\Checkout
It will help you in understanding the one page checkout mechanism and from there you can have idea how to fulfill your requirements.
For your second question, I will recommend you to use the nop.web project instead of yours, as if you use your own web project, than you will be investing a lot of time trying to do a thing that is already done and it will be tough to put your front end on back end of Nop.
is there a ready solution (gem, plugin...) to quickly have a back-office for a mostly static website?
It should be a bit more user-friendly than admin-data.
Thanks,
Augusto
You could try, in order of rising backend complexity (but also increasing frontend userfriendliness):
https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage
https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/
http://refinerycms.com/
http://www.locomotivecms.com/
If by "back-office", you mean a Content Management type of system, then I've heard very good things about Radiant.
Typus always worked for me:
Typus
You might want to check out Forest Admin. They will allow you get an up and running back-office in minutes. They have all the standard features you need so you will be able to easily perform CRUD actions for your data models.
I have a customer that wants to build their own questionnaires. Something like WuFoo (www.wufoo.com) but more secure and contained within the app.
I've looked at Smerf (http://github.com/springbok/smerf) which provides the yaml-to-form conversion, but I'd like something the user can use to create their own forms.
I would look at using active_scaffold. The main version has not been updated for Rails 3, but a fork at the location below has. I think it would work well for your purpose, you just need a way to grab the data and feed it in. Here is a demo of what it looks like when it is running:
https://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold
Here is a demo at the top of the page:
http://demo.activescaffold.com/roles
You could always embed Google Forms. Might be easier than reinventing the wheel. Unless you have some specific use case this doesn't cover?
If you are not adverse to going the Javascript route the then you might consider one of the many framework plugins like the JQuery Form Builder. From a usability perspective it seems to me that any good solution is going to involve some Javascript. There should be no reason why this approach wouldn't integrate well into a Rails backend
You might want to check out this one. Dynamic Forms
I too am looking for something very similar. What solution did you come up with?
I have to add Wufoo-like WYSIWYG form-builder functionality to a Rails webapp.
Does anyone know of good resources (gems/engines/plugins/example code) that would help?
this is not really an answer to your question, but I still can't add comments unfortunately, due to my reputation level, sorry :)
There is exact equivalent of such functionality in Drupal(php)
http://drupal.org/project/webform especially useful for contact forms, i.e. clients happy and don't bug me every time they want to adjust or even to add new inquiry form :)
Would be nice to have such gem/plugin if any? :P
Thanks.
I don't think creating such a app in rails would be a great idea.
Using AR, such an app would be creating migrations on the fly - which doesn't sound like a great thing to do.
AFAIK, wufoo uses php.
OBJECTIVE: To learn a little more about some technologies I'm familiar with but not an expert in: Postgres, Compass/Sass, Google Maps API, Twitter API, and ASP.NET MVC 1.0, Flickr API
THE SITE: Just a fun little app with CRUD for addresses of my friends, then a page that kind of has a map of where they live, their last five tweets, and some of their flickr photos.
THE QUESTIONS:
I love LINQ. I mean I really love it. Probably unnaturally. How can I use LINQ and Postgres together with ASP.NET? Anyone have some experience with this? How about a good example? I mean mostly I'm just doing simple inserts and queries here, so I don't need a ton of features. I would like to make a db repository and have some IQueryables.
Compass docs seem woefully terse. Can someone point me to a nice set of examples...or is it really just that easy? Also, anyone have experience with it? Any snags - is it even worth it?
If I have, say, 50 friends and I want their last 5 tweets... Will I hit the API rate limit if I try to pull them all at once and update all of them at once, so that I don't run into network issues? Is it even worth it to do that?
Google are too smart for their own good. I don't really "get" the API docs. Can someone give me the 10 second overview? It's not a "mapplet" right?
Thanks in advance, you guys rock!
Edit - I'm also looking for general tips using any of those technologies!
There are several open source LINQ projects over on CodePlex.
DBLinq: http://dblinq.codeplex.com/
LINQ to Twitter: http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com/
(disclaimer: I wrote LINQ to Twitter)
LINQ to Google: http://glinq.codeplex.com/
LINQ to Flickr: http://linqflickr.codeplex.com/
1) by "linq" I am assuming you mean the Linq2Sql orm. Unfortunately, it only supports SQL server, and probably will never get any other databases since it is no longer under active development. If you really want IQueryables from an ORM pointing at postgres, your best best is NHibernate.Linq http://codebetter.com/blogs/kyle.baley/archive/2008/04/07/trying-out-linq-for-nhibernate.aspx
another free alternative might be http://code2code.net/DB_Linq/index.html but this is not a very mature project