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List:       midgard-user
Subject:    Re: [midgard-user] Midgard Questions / How Tos
From:       Tarjei Huse <tarjei () nu ! no>
Date:       2004-10-23 10:12:39
Message-ID: 1098526360.5190.14.camel () linux ! site
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Adam Douglas wrote:

>Hi everyone. I have quiet a few questions I would like to ask. Any
>suggestions or direction one could lead me in to answer my questions
>would be much appreciated. Here we go...
>
>
>1. How do you place a link in the <(navi)> to go to the homepage?
>
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I inserted this in navi-dynamic:

69:   $index = mgd_get_article_by_name($nav->get_root_node(),'index');
70:   $root = $nav->get_node($nav->get_current_node());
71:   if ($index->topic == $root[MIDCOM_NAV_ID] && $nav->get_current_leaf() == 0 ) {
72:      ?><div class="nnbe" ><a href="&(local_prefix);" class="nnbs">&(index.title);</a></div><?
73:   } else {
74:      ?><div class="nnbe" ><a href="&(local_prefix);" class="nnbr">&(index.title);</a></div><?
75:   }  

The linenumbers should give you a hit on where to plave the code. 


>2. How do I implement a secure section of my site?
>  
>
Use ssl :-)

>	2a. How do I restrict what content (including navigation menu)
>is visible to specific individual users and by user 	    groups? 
>  
>
Viewer groups in cvs solves this.

>	2b. Is inheritance supported?
>  
>
In what way?

For styles? Objects?

For styles, I just place all my elements - including most of the 
elements in the rootpage (not the code-{init|global|finish) ones)  in 
one root style and let all my other styles inherit that style. Thus I 
gain some inheritance.

>I require a security system that allows for individual access as well as
>group level access. I currently have 5 groups of users that would see
>different content. Certain users would have control over
>adding/editing/marinating user accounts for a specific company/branch
>locations. I would also require to have a interface that would allow me
>to maintain all of this. I assume AegirCMS would handle this under
>persons/groups. I already have a security system like this designed in
>PHP along with an admin interface. However I'm not sure how to do this
>system under Midgard. Oh also I would require further details to be
>store per user then Midgard does by default. Would this be done by me
>adding more columns to the persons table or adding additional tables?
>  
>
Read up on the midgard api. Midgard has a parametersystem for storing 
content to different objects regadless of which object.

>3. How would a user that has editing rights to a section of the web site
>be able to upload PDFs and asking the user for a few details of the
>uploaded PDF? 
>
>  
>
This would be as an attachment. The attachment could be added to a topic 
or an article.

>I have a huge literature section on my current web site that is entirely
>rendered from a database table (files are referenced via file path) that
>is has major details. How can this be done using Midgard? Would
>integrating my system into Midgard be a better approach? Is it possible?
>
>  
>
It wouldn't be hard to integrate the system into midgard.

>4. How can I hide the  <(breadcrumb)> <(last-updated)>
><(edit-this-page)> for those that should see it only?
>  
>
You'll need a loginlink whatever you do. The rest may be moved behind 
that like this:
<? if ($GLOBALS['midgard']->user ) {
?>

<(breadcrumb)> <(last-updated)>
<(edit-this-page)>

<? } else { ?>
<(edit-this-page)>

<? } ?>

}

>5. When developing using Midgard how should one do it? Do all the coding
>in Midgard? Or do some people keep a site running without Midgard
>involved with the same code so one can use an IDE such as Zend Studio?
>Copy/paste code from there into Midgard?
>  
>
There are more ways to skin this cat than there are exiting places in 
Florida =)

You may use the different webinterfaces directly. For snippets, Aegir 
contains a component to export/import the snippets to a filesystem for 
simple editing and bergie has made a webdavextension.


>6. Is it correct that Midgard currently only supports MySQL for the
>backend?
>  
>
Yes

>7. How can I remove the Title on the homepage? I set the Title blank in
>Midcom-admin but Midgard still places the <h1></h1> code in. Which in
>return causes a paragraph break that breaks my design well kicks it down
>lower. Doesn't look as nice to me.
>  
>
The way an article is shown is defined in the articletemplate of the 
midcom in question. If you use taviewer this snippet is found in 
/de/linkm/taviewer/_style/article-show if I remember corectly. Just 
create a article-show element in your style and modify it the way you want.
Tarjei

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