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building voting community with ezpublish 3.0 ?

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spencer jakob

Wednesday 16 April 2003 5:23:43 am

Hi all?

I like to build a _voting_ community.
Is it possible with the _groundfeatures/system_ (object, classes) of ezpublish 3.0 without modification of the kernel/system.

the following features should get realised:
1. - vote can have 1 ore more question
2. - question can have 1 ore more answers
3. - depending on the question the user can choose on or more answers
4. - answers can be of the type: text, image or link
5. - the answer of a users with more _userpoints_ (specific user variable) counts more then the answer of a user with lesser _userpoints_.
6. - possible to publish a vote _from_ / _until_
7. - all users should be notified if a new vote/poll is published.

also there should be:
- some sort of forum where the users con post comments on a vote/poll
- some sort of Downloadarea. An admin can publish files plus metainformation in different categories for the users.

sorry for so much questions, but i don't know if this is possible without big modifications of the kernel, though the
documentation is really great.

thanks and best regards
spencerj

Jan Borsodi

Wednesday 16 April 2003 5:50:26 am

You will have to make your own module but no kernel modifications are needed.
What you need to do is to create a new extension with your custom module. You should check the documentation for information about extensions.
The voting system could also be created as a datatype, this means that you can create a new class with voting and have regular content objects as comments on the the vote objects.

File handling is already present in eZ publish.

--
Amos

Documentation: http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation
FAQ: http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/faq

spencer jakob

Wednesday 16 April 2003 9:31:42 am

thank you for the answer!

i searched the site and documentation manual/sdk,
-http://ez.no/sdk/ref/view/modules/
-http://ez.no/sdk/kernel/view/module_system
but didn't find anything specific to module creation.
sorry did i missed something.
I would prefer to build the voting system with the datatype system.
How and what, would i have to implement than. I guess it starts with the Information Colector. Are there some plans whis DB persistence.

thanks and greets to norway
spencer

Dan Zembrosky

Monday 28 April 2003 11:56:11 pm

let me know if you suceed, i would like that type of functionality as well.