This is going to sound dumb, but how do you implement a simple customer facing form in a farcry cms website? All of the tutorials are so focused on the admin interface, I don't know how to approach something this simple.
Let's say I am creating a website for the Rotary Club. I have a tab that says 'Membership Application'. If you click on the tab you get a page with a blank HTML form to enter in all the pertinent details such as name, address, etc. You submit the form and the info gets stuffed into the database for later approval or review of some kind by an administrator. Simple enough in the normal world of HTML or CFML, but how do you do this in a farcry cms website? Inside the admin interface, I can create a member content type and admin interface to the member type. This would allow me working in the webtop to create, edit, and delete member objects. I could then develop a list or display webskin to show the world who our members are. All this is great, but this whole paradigm of information creation and management is centered on the administrative editor working within the webtop where everything is kind of automatic, prebuilt and preconfigured. Very nice for the admin. If I want to build a form that faces the customers/visitors of my Rotary website and allows them to create a member object themselves, how do I do this? Where is this form stored? How is it called? How is it processed? I could obviously do an end-around on the whole CMS system and do a normal CFML approach that talks straight to the database, but that doesn't seem appropriate at all. Overall, it seems like the developer docs mention the broader concept of a web application framework, but spend all their time talking about the CMS plugin. I don't know if I'm supposed to buld my form inside the CMS and expose it somehow with a webskin and specific permissions, or build it outside of the CMS and simply utilize some of the features of the CMS database, or avoid the CMS altogether and simply implement the form as a separate 'neighbor' to the CMS system of views and content. gdhurst --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
