My colleague and I have a project and we've decided that I will create the Data Management System and he will do the WordPress site and just integrate it later using the database of WordPress.
However, when we found out that WordPress' database is complicated/very general and NOT all of the fields in my ERD are there, we encountered a problem integrating.
May I ask if anyone of you here has experienced this kind of situation? Or is there any way that you know how to integrate data from website to the system?
The main goal would be this:
1. A user will order through the WordPress website
2. It will then reflect on the System and will be displayed there, its details, price, description, etc. for the admin to see.
We are using the following tools:
Website - WordPress 4.8
System - Laravel 5.2
Jquery and AJAX Requests
Thank you in advance for your help
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For the past 3 years I have been a PHP developer writing and creating websites in a "Vanilla" fashion (no CMS). When I created or altered a site I would write my own html, php, css and js files. I just started a job this week as a web developer at a small company that exclusively uses Drupal7/8 and Wordpress.
I was assigned, what in my mind is a simple task, of creating a landing page with a carousel and a form on it. In my past vanilla life this would take me all of two hours to have it live. This site however was created in Drupal 7 by a developer no longer at the company.
I have been through both Lynda.com courses on Drupal 7&8 development and have a good grasp on the concepts, but still don't know where to even begin.
Is there anyone out there who has come from a similar background of web development outside of a CMS and has since moved into it that can give me some advice on where to begin?
Thanks!
I followed the step in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsLA7n9fknc
and here was the output I got on the page:
here
You should try to install and use drupal contrib modules to create the carousel and the form, for example:
Create a view with Views Slideshow module, you could start following this example:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/modules/views-slideshow/creating-a-slideshow
Use the webform module to create a simple form, please see the following tutorial: https://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/webform-module
I need to port a CMS (to be sold and needing a certain look and feel) originally written in PHP and using a mysql database on Django. While researching this framework, I found that the default admin has all the base qualities I need. Now comes the difficult question; is it wise to use the default admin (styling it for the project's needs (i.e Django-jet)), or should I create all the pages needed individually (using metronics, for example) and leave the admin as is?
Do you guys have any other suggestions?
Thanks!!
This depends strictly upon project needs. If you do not want to spend too much time in building it from scratch thats fine you can control user access in admin panel using permissions and groups. In the past I have used Django Admin panel as is for my clients and they never cared.
But If its a big project with 10s of models and lots of users using admin panel, then its worth creating it from scratch.
With upgrade in Django 2.0 admin panel is responsive as well, and using packages like DJango-jet completely removes the need for creating admin view from scratch.
I need to create a mobile website for a Joomla website that is already live and running (has been for a while). I have no experience in using Joomla, so hence why I am asking you Guru's on here! I need to be able to display news and their categories, and possibly a few sub pages of cut down text from the full site.
I have found a few Joomla Extensions which hint at redirecting users to a mobile theme.
See:
Mobile Joomla!
Architect for Joomla
Do these include a mobile theme with them? Or do you have to manually create a separate theme for these extensions to identify and use when a mobile device or tablet is visiting the website? If so - can any of you direct me to the best possible route of implementing a "simple" mobile theme based on the current website? And note any common pitfalls + issues.
The website in question is here.
I look forward to your answers - thanks!
Due to the fact that a mobile version (if optimized for mobile devices) looks quite different to a normal website, I would write my own code which accesses the joomla database. For example, you create an own subdomain (no need to check "show mobile version" on every page) and there you can create a very lean and fast php/html5 version, for example. The php accesses the joomla database and gets all the news you need. Writing your own code has some advantages (in imho):
You can create a lean and dedicated version specific for your needs -> less code which handles generic things is needed
You can use some sophisticated gui-tools like iScroll to create a nice gui
I don't think that there's a great community for mobile joomla websites...
I have a web application that needs to be built using PHP/MySQL. The application will require documents to be generated from data in the MySQL database. Such documents will be printed and/or emailed and user will be prompted to run a daily print/email job based on business logic.
This application functionality needs to be made available to individual users such that they can upload data, have the system prompt them as to whether letters/emails are to be generated. The site also needs to be able to support a bulletin board, online live training events and will have admin area as well.
Question: Should a hybrid solution be developed such that the data management (upload functionality, and letter production) be a separate part of the site that authenticated Joomla users can access? That is, the document management functionality would exist separately from Joomla, but be called from within it via a link in the Joomla sitemap. Alternatively, should custom modules be developed from within Joomla to accomodate the document management functionality?
Thanks so much for your input!!
Joomla could do the job for you but based on the amount of things you need that differ from a normal Joomla site I would use a framework to build from instead of a CMS. I say this because it sounds like you need a lot more than just a CMS and it can be more work if you try making Joomla do things it wasn't designed to do. In my opinion Joomla is for "web sites" and not as much for "web apps". Of course those terms have overlap but it sounds like you would be better off with a Framework to go off of instead of working around Joomla to get what you want. However if the site is already done in Joomla it may be less work just to make a Joomla add-on.
Since you have to use PHP I would definitely recommend CakePHP for your framework. As for an integrated forum try looking at the links in this post. If that doesn't work for you, try out Vanilla forums (vanillaforums.org) which are very clean and may be easier to integrate into CakePHP than some of the other PHP forums.
If you decide to use CakePHP, check out Cake Forge to see if you can find anything there to make your life even easier.
If you were to use Joomla, the upload functionality and letter production would be written as a custom component. You can write the component to make sure that the current user is authenticated before generating the documents. I would not develop this as a separate application alongside Joomla; it would be easier to write it as a component.
Many forums and forum bridges are available for Joomla, so that would be something you wouldn't have to write.
I'm not sure what kind of live event support you're looking for.
I'm trying to start building a whole application using phpBB3 user system as a base using CodeIgniter framework. However before starting I would like to hear a piece of advice from any phpBB3 Developer out there.
I've been developing for Wordpress and Drupal. But recently I decided I would build up something fit to my needs instead of using a premade application.
The application is going to include:
Article System
Video Streaming
Wiki
User editable Profiles
and much more
To any phpBB3 Developer :
Where to start?
Any recommendation you could give me?
Any tips?
I've only used phpBB3 as a forum system, but you should definitely check out the phpBB Development Wiki, particularly the API section.
It has all sorts of neat things, like how to add custom pages and use phpBB's permission system.