Forum OpenACS Development: Re: CMS forms + widgets versus Classified Ads

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7: Re: CMS forms + widgets versus Classified Ads (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 06/18/03 11:30 PM
We really want to tie this to acs constructs, not SQL DDL, because we want to be able to override them easily.  And one way to do this is to define a new type that doesn't exist in SQL.  For instance the rich text widget in the form templating code combines SQL text and boolean columns to form a text item that may be flagged as HTML or plain text.

We need functionality of this sort.

We need to straighten this mess out.  We need to start reusing code rather than reinvent it.

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8: Re: CMS forms + widgets versus Classified Ads (response to 7)
Posted by tammy m on 06/18/03 11:45 PM
Don,

Totally agreed. How do we do that?

I'm going through CMS code and Classifieds code now, trying to find a way to display an entry FORM from a content_type in CMS, accept input from that FORM into the database (new and modified for first documents and then revisions) and display the final created page to a user. Lots of packages in OACS do this, but AFAIK none of them accomplish it in the same way and I would think the CMS  (and Templating) should be the place for this code but then the CMS code seems the most clunky to use:(

Anyway, I'd love to help if there was any clear map to an end goal;)