So... lost...

Monday 15 August 2005 12:12:13 am

I've read up the documentation, but I am still scratching my head a little bit on where to begin. I'm interested in trying out ezPublish for an online community for my old high school alumni, but am a bit confused on how to do things the "ezPublish" way. :(

For example, I want people to be able to register, and additionally provide their contact information, whether or not it's visible, etc. Then I want that to be tied in to a contacts listing that is sorted by graduation year.

The programmer in me wants to just jump down into the code and rip it apart to do what I want. The learner in me wants to realize that ezPublish provides a mechanism for setting something like described above up.

Monday 15 August 2005 1:45:11 am

Yeah, but it seems like there would be some kind of "object" to link to a user, like a "user details" object or something that includes their address, graduation date, etc.

Of course, I guess I may just be thinking too much object oriented and expecting the system to behave that way.

Monday 15 August 2005 6:13:09 am

Thanks, I guess you are right. However, how can I enforce certain rules and such on attributes of an object? Like I spoke earlier, I'd like to let people choose if they ant their address publicly visible or not. Also, I will need to group people by graduation year as well so that people can view them.