I'm trying to implement the following feature: - A page exists on the website (public page) that allows users to submit content to be included in the sites STK event calendar. The user fills out that form (in which they will include the required information for an STK Event, as well as some additional information that will be used to determine which part of the website tree to create the node in) , and then hits submit.
Rather than just dumping the content directly onto the site, we want to require a moderation step. What's the best way for the public site to submit form information to the authoring instance so it can then be entered into a moderation workflow? I've thought of one solution which could be relatively simple - have the form's submission send an email to a mailbox that the author instance polls periodically and have something consume the email and parse it into the event node and then dump it into the inbox of someone who moderates these messages... using SMTP as the transport mechanism seems a bit ridiculous though. Another thought would be to expose a page on the author instance and make it accessible to an anonymous user and have the public instance submit the form directly to that page (or submit it to the public instance which then, in turn, submits it to the author instance so the author instance's URL isn't ever exposed to the public and the author instance could still sit behind some kind of firewall and allow inbound traffic from just the public instance machine). This seems to me like a better method to use because it cuts out the email middleman. If anyone has any other thoughts on this, I'm all ears. Ryan ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
