Can users add a new page? Need clarification before I buy

[gordon79]

Hi,

First of all - great CMS.  I must say, very impressive, easy to use and extremely simply to install. 

I am ready to purchase for use on my client's web site - however they will need to add new pages to their web site. 

Can they add new pages to their web site using snippet master and if so, how? 

Many thanks for your help.

Gordon

[admin]

Hello,

At the moment (version 2.2.2), this feature is not yet implemented.  I will be adding it eventually, however. 



The only thing I can suggest for now is to create some blank pages and put them into their website somewhere.  When they need a new page, they can then select to edit one of them and then add the link as needed...

[gordon79]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Do you know when you will be adding this feature?  Any idea of timescale?

Thanks,

Gordon

[admin]

Hopefully within the next few months. 

[gordon79]

Hi,

Just wondering if you had anymore idea of timescale for the add a new page feature?  Before xmas?

I'm finishing off a web site at the moment and will need a CMS but the add a page feature is crucial.

Many thanks!

Gordon

[admin]

Honestly, it's very diffucult for me to say a time anymore, due to the fact that all my previous timelines keep getting drastically changed. 

It's middle of November now, and I'm booked solid for at least another month with other work.  Then December starts and my wife is nagging.. er.. asking me to spend some quality time with my family.   

So in all likelyhood it will be middle of January before I can do this.  Sigh.

[jaymanson]

Hi Henri,

I've been playing around with adding functionality to add a page myself, as it's something I would also like to see in Snippetmaster. I've just finished creating a working script which sits outside the SM installation that allows my clients to add a page, specify the filename and also the snippet names too. After every possible validation I can think of, it then creates the file from a page template written by the web designer.

I'm going to do a bit more work on it this weekend to allow an admin user to specify the templates and perhaps even allow page creation from a selection of multiple templates.

I realise that this may become a feature in SM in the future, but I'm teaching myself PHP and it's a good way for me to learn When you do add this feature, could you also add the ability to disable it at a user/group level, as I may not wish all my clients to be able to do it!

I've been more that happy with my hosting and SM so far, so you're welcome at any time to see if there's anything you can use in my code - might save you some time to spend with the family  Just let me know!

Jamie

[admin]

Hi Jamie,

I will absolutely be adding the ability to manage this feature from the user level.  No worries there.

Once you're finished with the code, I would love to see it. I've worked a little bit on this feature, but to be honest I haven't yet done anything significant beyond mapping out how I want it to work, etc.. (ie: The design is done, but I haven't started the programming for it yet.)

I am returning from my current travels in 2 weeks, and then I'll be furiously finishing up all the programming for the next release of Snippetmaster.  I was hoping to have this feature added, so if you already have some code I can use to have a jumpstart.  You can send anything you wish to share to me directly here:

Thanks very much! 

[bdgardengirl]

I see that this hasn't been commented on for a while, but was curious if this feature was ever added. I too would like to get this set up for a client and it would be nice if she could add her own instead of me providing a bunch of dummy pages. Please let me know! Thanks

[admin]

Not yet.  It's about 80% completed. I'm working on figuring out how to handle permissions... (ie: How to set which users can and can't add new files...)

Which is a good question to ask you for your opinion.  It's much easier if I can just set permissions to either "yes or no", but I also wanted to add some more complicated options.

For example:

- Should User X be able to add new pages?  y/n
- If yes, then limit them to adding only in specified folders?
- If yes, then limit them to using only templates?  Which templates?  How to associate the user with each template...

I think what I might do for the next release is just keep it very simple and allow the user to create new pages or not.  There will be no templates or anything like that. 

Then i'll add the ability to create new pages based on templates later in another version...

Does that sound ok?

(So user will be able to add a new file, which is basically just an empty file. They would then need to copy and paste from another file to make it work with their site design..)

I'm not sure that's enough though.. I think I need to do the template ability, too? 

Let me know...