I want members to share stories
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Hey Guys,
First off, I know NOTHING of programming at all. But this is what I want to accomplish:
I want my registered members to be presented with a simple form on their member profile…with three things….Title, Story, Category.
When they submit a story, it appears in multiple places:
1)on the front page, in a section RECENT STORIES
2)on their member profile in a section MY STORIES
3)on a BROWSE STORIES page where they will be sorted in one of 10 categories.
If anyone could give some simple advice…with very little coding…that would be great….I thought about maybe using a blog system where comments are disabled…but thats not working too great.
Please Help!
First off, I know NOTHING of programming at all. But this is what I want to accomplish:
I want my registered members to be presented with a simple form on their member profile…with three things….Title, Story, Category.
When they submit a story, it appears in multiple places:
1)on the front page, in a section RECENT STORIES
2)on their member profile in a section MY STORIES
3)on a BROWSE STORIES page where they will be sorted in one of 10 categories.
If anyone could give some simple advice…with very little coding…that would be great….I thought about maybe using a blog system where comments are disabled…but thats not working too great.
Please Help!
im not sure if people can even see this forum post??? I could not find it myself, once I posted it until I searched for the title…DOH!
Just wanted to drop in and say I found this post...
And unfortunately, what you want is not going to be easy to put together. It'll require some significant developer experience.
If you're looking to outsource this for $$$, post in the Jobs board.
If I was to approach this problem, I would create a single page with the form that users fill out. It would save the stories into a database table (and potentially notify you that a story was submitted / ask for approval to make it "live")
Then there would be a block that displays a number of stories based on category (sorted by the most recent first).
So what I'm trying to say: You're going to have to 1.) Learn a whole bunch of programming, 2.) Pony up some $$ for a developer to construct this, 3.) Find another way to allow members to share their stories.
Depending on the number you expect to receive, you may be able just to build a form using the form block and then manually add the stories to the pages you want (not ideal, but it's free).
And unfortunately, what you want is not going to be easy to put together. It'll require some significant developer experience.
If you're looking to outsource this for $$$, post in the Jobs board.
If I was to approach this problem, I would create a single page with the form that users fill out. It would save the stories into a database table (and potentially notify you that a story was submitted / ask for approval to make it "live")
Then there would be a block that displays a number of stories based on category (sorted by the most recent first).
So what I'm trying to say: You're going to have to 1.) Learn a whole bunch of programming, 2.) Pony up some $$ for a developer to construct this, 3.) Find another way to allow members to share their stories.
Depending on the number you expect to receive, you may be able just to build a form using the form block and then manually add the stories to the pages you want (not ideal, but it's free).
