Database Tables and Forms

[Rong]

I just started looking at this app. over the weekend, having installed the basic version from my CPanel. I've been looking for an easily configurable CMS package for my church to use and this one has some very strong possibilities. The one piece that I'm looking for but the one that I don't have available to me (in the Basic Package) is the Database Tables and the Web Form Management.
I'm hoping that someone here can tell me whether this application will do what I'm looking for.

I'd like to upload sermons and have them available in a database. Categories would be, author, date_preached, scripture_reference, summary, body. The table should be sortable by clicking on the column header. In order to upload the sermons I'd like to create a form that will allow an end user to fill in the fields and then copy/paste the sermon into a text area. (Sermons are written in Word).

Is this something that can be done "out of the box"? If not how much programming do you think it would take to achieve? (I'm a Domino programmer, but a total neophyte when it comes to php :( )

Thanks for your input,

Rong

[Cameron Allen]

Hey Long,
You can create a form in the forms module which has your desired fields, one of course being sermons. Drop the form on a page. When dropping the form on a page make sure you fill in the name of a database table, now the form will post to that database table (even if it doesn't exist, it will create the table as soon as someone fills out the form).

The database table manager allows you to create and manage new data tables, as well as create a search for a table. Click the "create a data table search" button in the database table manager module. This will create a search file that searches the database table that your form submits to. In the Page Editor, Drop and Drop the custom table search icon on the page that you want the search to display on. the search on the . The data table search wizard allows you to customize the search to meet your needs..

[long]

I also installed via cpanel and recently updated to v4.8.2 r4

However, the "forms manager" just brings me back to a login page (that's what it did before i upgraded).

I hoping to create just a few simple forms. Is this a feature i have to buy?

Thanks in advance.

Long (Just so you know, I am Long, an entirely different person from Rong...might be a bit of silly confusion there) :D

[Cameron Allen]

Long,

It sounds like your build did not get upgraded properly. The form editor is a base module, and does not require purchase. You should chmod -R 0777 the sohoadmin folder, re-extract the upgrade .tgz file

[long]

I actually upgraded through cpanel and for some reason i don't have an upgrade.tgz file. (all i did was click upgrade in fantastico (cpanel).

i don't even know how to extract a tgz file.

i do everything through file manager (cpanel).


thanks.

long :confused:

[Cameron Allen]

long, if you would pm your /sohoadmin login, along w/ ftp access I will take a look at this.