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  • is this possible - moving existing php/mysql site to joomla/rockettheme?

    Posted 17 years 4 months ago
    • hey everyone,

      i'm new here and have been working on building my first site using joomla and rocketheme. it's a site for our church - you can see it here if you like: http://www.gcfcrossett.org.  it's pretty basic - using elemental with no major mods, but it will be great for what our small church is looking for. i've been incredibly impressed with both the templates themselves and the help and support amongst members here at rockettheme. this is my first post, though - the tutorials and reading other posts have been very helpful to me already, and i'm looking forward to getting involved in the near future.

      today i'm hoping to find out if what i'm hoping to do for my next project is possible, then later i'd like to make available a paid job to help me incorporate these ideas.

      i have a Christian non-profit site that i would love to transfer to joomla using rockettheme - the site is mostly functional, but has not been used, (because of two deaths in the family and subsequent responsibilites), with the essential working parts of the site built with php and mysql. i don't know anything about php - that part of the site was done for me - but basically, a user would follow these steps:


      1 - user selects an organization amongst a list of many organizations that is pulled from the database.

      2 - that organization has an id, and then on all subsequent pages, information is dynamically inserted from the database into various points and positions on all other pages, starting with mysite.com/org.php?orgid=1.

      3 - on that page, the user would then select a merchant or a category from drop-down lists, with information and results for each category and merchants also pulled from the db and displayed on following pages, and all links to merchants, dynamically modified to include each selected organization's id, example - merchantsite.com/organizationmodifier=defaultorgid, changed to merchantsite.com/organizationmodifier=chosenorg1.

      4 - each page then would have info pulled from the organization table of the db, plus the category table and merchant table, and the user would then click to visit a merchant site using a merchantsite.com/organizationmod=chosenorg1 link. (used for essential tracking purposes).


      you can probably tell i don't really know what i'm talking about, but i like learning. i hope all this makes sense. in summary, once an organization is selected, all following pages should be modified and information brought from the database, and all outgoing links modified. this would only change if the user went back to the intial selection page and chose another organization. it is the same principle i assume, as if i used a login and password, and then modified everything after that. i suppose that is another possibility.

      anyway, do you see any potential problems doing this with joomla and rockettheme? would i be able to do this using all types of joomla content, in all sorts of module positions, with various dynamic modifiers in various modules on each page?

      i will most likely use and modify mediamogul to do this project. the site is already partially functional with the above described functions, so little or no no database creation is needed, just moving these functions to joomla, modifying code if needed to work with joomla, adding a few areas/tables to display db content, and a bit of assistance in theme modification.

      my site's current design is ok - but i would love to switch to the modern-looking, forward-thinking rockettheme joomla sites. it seems like it will be so much easier to modify and to update in the long-run if i go with joomla - and rockettheme is by far the best i've seen out of anything associated with joomla - templates, support, everything is great.

      i appreciate any advice you can give me on this. also, is there a particular forum here that i should use to post the job request, when it does come time to ask for the paid help that i'll be seeking?

      thanks so much,
      matthew
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