Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] PHP-GW as backend to public site?

[Patrick J. Walsh (mr_e)]

Chris,

	At the moment, this will require a small amount of programming on your 
part.  But if you wait (not very long either... I've taken a very short 
break to get through finals, but will be back in a couple of days) then the 
SiteMgr app will have hooks support and some more blocks.  With this 
support, SiteMgr will be able to display information from other 
phpGroupWare applications on the public web site.  When this is complete, I 
will issue a tar.gz file of SiteMgr for people to use.

	If you don't want to wait for the hooks support, you can still use 
"blocks".  Install the latest version of SiteMgr from head of CVS into a 
phpGroupWare 0.9.14 install (make sure you have the updates from the 0.9.14 
branch of cvs too).  Take a look at the existing blocks -- they're just 
snippets of PHP code that sets a $content variable.  They are based on 
postnuke and phpnuke blocks and blocks from these programs that don't make 
db calls should work.  You can look at the block-phpGWCalendar.inc.php file 
to see how a phpGroupWare specific block is done.  It's not too hard.

	Otherwise, I'll let the list know when the hooks support is going so 
developers can take advantage of it.  I'll also make a SiteMgr page on the 
website that people can refer to.

..mr_e



--On Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:55 AM -0400,
--"W. Chris Shank" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use PHP-GW in a content management capacity as well as it's
> collaboration capability. For instance, I'd like the home page of the
> public site to display any public calendar events for that day and also
> display a current poll. there are a few more things i'd like to do, but
> they all fall along the same basic theme - extracting small - specific
> amounts of data - and displaying it on a single public page. any guidance
> or help in this area is appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
>
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