i need a module that is kind of a cross between a registration module and a form module.
it need to allow for custom form fields to be saved to the DB and work as part of a flow such that once data is entered by the users they click next and see the data to confirm it is correct. at this point they should have the option to edit the data if they notice an error or continue to a payment page.
the payment page needs to have a module that can integrat with payment gateways liek paypal and accept credit cards. once credit card data is entered and the transaction is complete a custom email with a unique userNumber needs to be sent to the user.
i figure im lookign at three separate modules for this typeof work flow. but i hope since this is a standard type of register, pay, email confirm operation there may be a single module i can confugure to meet my needs.
thoughts? suggestions?
Have you looked at DNM RAD by DotNet Mushroom?
http://www.dotnetmushroom.com/DNMRADGeneral/GeneralInformation/WhatisDNMRAD/tabid/2347/Default.aspx
I have not had a use for this yet, but it is a module that I have on my short list in case the need comes up. They do state that they can work with pament gateways.
Good luck.
You might have to be somewhat flexible with your work flow if you want to used 100% canned modules.
FormMaster is a pretty good form solution. You can write to existing database tables, structure SQL tables or just the default is an XML file. It doesn't go through a preview before saving though.
FormMaster Website
Searching snowcovered.com you can certainly find something that can process a payment. That one shouldn't be too difficult.
I'm thinking you may need to sling some code to get the exact experience you are looking for.
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I am using DNN 9.3.2 and Evoq 9.3.7.
I would like to paywall content in a section of the website with teaser content i.e. so that they can read a part of the article but need to pay/ log in to access the content. 'Members' would also need to be able to log in and bypass the paywall. Users would idealy be able to manage their account from here. The paywall would also need to be able to handle a complex pricing model i.e. different prices for different user types, possibly different content available for different user types.
Would anyone be able to advise how best to do this with DNN/ Evoq, and which modules from DNN store (if any) would be useful?
Thanks!
I have never tried this, but in theory any shop solution should give you that functionality. Have a look at OpenStore, which is Open Source and free.
Or a News/Blog module that supports paid content, as EasyDnnNews.
I believe you'll have to brew your own or ask a specialist who knows what they are doing already. The basic principle is as follows:
Protect a page with a role - let's call it Patrons which only paying users will get
Create a page for users to pay on, and if successful, assign them the role
You can also do things like ensure that the role is only given for a certain time, and then the users must pay again.
If you have a subscription model, you would probably run a timer job or something to verify payments have happened again, and if true, extend the role assignment
I'm looking for a simple solution for a cooperative project where specimens will be mailed to me, and I would report several measurements back to the sender.
I need the originating site to fill out a form with some basic information (specimen ID, collection dates, shipment tracking #, etc). Then I need to let the site know I received the shipment - via the same form. Then, after some analytics, I need to report 3 numerical values (biomarker levels) back to the site.
Someone recommended REDCap for this project. I know I can do data collection with REDCap (the initial requisition form), but can I also report the values back with REDCap?
It appears I found the solution, by talking to a REDCap expert. In case someone is interested, here's basic outline:
Create two forms: one for requisiton, another one for reporting data back to user.
Invite REDCap users to my project and give them read-only rights to the second form.
Put other users in Data Access Groups, so they only can see the requisitions (and results) from their own group.
This might work, but I decided to not go this way. In REDCap, an user has all rights by default, and I would have to limit them. In my application there is too much potential for data breach due to mistake in assigning rights and DAGs.
Another solution would be to use REDCap with an email alert module enabled.
Configure a project with two forms:
One for the client to enter the information you need from them, and make that form anonymous - no user account needed, and collect an email address from them (to return results). For the example below let's call this form [request].
The second form will be for you to enter the biomarker levels and whatever else you need to. This form only needs to be viewable and editable by you. Let's call this [results].
Then, if you have the email alerts module enabled (and you'll have to speak with your REDCap administrators about that) you can configure it to automatically email someone with information contained in the record, and to set the logic by which the email is sent.
This solution and the one you were recommended are the same with respect to form design, but they differ in the way the results are shared with the requestor. This solution does not require the user to have an account to access the results. I personally think the other solution (with user roles and DAGs) is the better solution.
I'm trying to search some guidelines to create my first app for a price list. If I search on Google I find only ready system but I'd like to make something customized. My needs are to import a 3-4000 lines excel sheet for products with different measures and give to customers the possibility to make a quotation with their personal discount and place an order our make only a quotation for logged users. Instead for not logged user to see only product without prices. Then I don't know if it's better to make contents downloadable or to load all contents inside the app. I think it's better to download contents, so I can update prices directly without make them download each time an app update. Then a possibility to show some pop-up with products news, sometimes in a month. I'm yet practice with magento, WordPress and sql queries. I think The best for me is to find some kind of cms, for phone app, if they exist. Cross platform maybe the best. To understand something like wish or geek. I wait for your replies. Thank you guys!
Thanks in advance for any help offered and patience for my current web-coding experience.
Background:
I'm currently attempting to develop an web based application for my family's business. There is a current version of this system I have developed in C#, however I want to get the system web-based and in the process learn cakephp and the MVC pattern.
Current problem:
I'm currently stuck in a controller that's supposed to take care of a PurchaseTicket. This ticket will have an associated customer, line items, totals etc. I've been trying to develop a basic 'add()' function to the controller however I'm having trouble with the following:
I'm creating a view with everything on it: a button for searching customer, a button to add line items, and a save button. Since I'm used to developing desktop applications, I'm thinking that I might be trying to transfer the same logic to web-based. Is this something that would be recommended or do'able?
I'm running into basic problems like 'searching customer'. From the New Ticket page I'm redirecting to the customer controller, searching and then putting result in session variable or posting it back, but as I continue my process with the rest of the required information, I'm ending up with a bit of "spaghetti" code. Should I do a multi part form? If I do I break the visual design of the application.
Right now I ended up instantiating my PurchaseTicket model and putting it in a session variable. I did this to save intermediate data however I'm not sure if instantiating a Model is conforming to cakephp standards or MVC pattern.
I apologize for the length, this is my first post as a member.
Thanks!
Welcome to Stack Overflow!
So it sounds like there's a few questions, all with pretty open-ended answers. I don't know if this will end up an answer as such, but it's more information than I could put in a comment, so here I go:
First and foremost, if you haven't already, I'd recommend doing the CakePHP Blog Tutorial to get familiar with Cake, before diving straight into a conversion of your existing desktop app.
Second, get familiar with CakePHP's bake console. It will save you a LOT of time if you use it to get started on the web version of your app.
I can't stress how important it is to get a decent grasp of MVC and CakePHP on a small project before trying to tackle something substantial.
Third, the UI for web apps is definitely different to desktop apps. In the case of CakePHP, nothing is 'running' permanently on the server. The entire CakePHP framework gets instantiated, and dies, with every single page request to the server. That can be a tricky concept when transitioning from desktop apps, where everything is stored in memory, and instances of objects can exist for as long as you want them to. With desktop apps, it's easier to have a user go and do another task (like searching for a customer), and then send the result back to the calling object, the instance of which will still exist. As you've found out, if you try and mimic this functionality in a web app by storing too much information in sessions, you'll quickly end up with spaghetti code.
You can use AJAX (google it if you don't already know about it) to update parts of a page only, and get a more streamlined UI, which it sounds like something you'll be needing to do. To get a general idea of the possibilities, you might want to take a look at Bamboo Invoice. It's not built with CakePHP, but it's built with CodeIgniter, which is another open source PHP MVC framework. It sounds like Bamboo Invoice has quite a few similar functionalities to what you're describing (an Invoice has line items, totals, a customer, etc), so it might help you to get an idea of how you should structure your interface - and if you want to dig into the source code, how you can achieve some of the things you want to do.
Bamboo Invoice uses Ajax to give the app a feel of 'one view with everything on it', which it sounds like you want.
Fourth, regarding the specific case of your Customer Search situation, storing stuff in a session variable probably isn't the way to go. You may well want to use an autocomplete field, which sends an Ajax request to server after each time a character is entered in the field, and displays the list list of suggestions / matching customers that the server sends back. See an example here: http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/. Implementing an autocomplete isn't totally straight forward, but there should be plenty of examples and tutorials all over the web.
Lastly, I obviously don't know what your business does, but have you looked into existing software that might work for you, before building your own? There's a lot of great, flexible web-based solutions, at very reasonable prices, for a LOT of the common tasks that businesses have. There might be something that gives you great results for much less time and money than it costs to build your own solution.
Either way, good luck, and enjoy CakePHP!
I'm stumped and need some ideas on how to do this or even whether it can be done at all.
I have a client who would like to build a website tailored to English-speaking travelers in a specific country (Thailand, in this case). The different modes of transportation (bus & train) have good web sites for providing their respective information. And both are very static in terms of the data they present (the schedules rarely change). Here's one of the sites I would need to get info from: train schedules The client wants to provide users the ability to search for a beginning and end location and determine, using the external website's information, how they can best get there, being provided a route with schedule times for the different modes of chosen transport.
Now, in my limited experience, I would think the way to do that would be to retrieve the original schedule info from the external site's server (via API or some other means) and retain the info in a database, which can be queried as needed. Our first thought was to contact the respective authorities to determine how/if this can be done, but this has proven to be problematic due to the language barrier, mainly.
My client suggested what is basically "screen scraping", but that sounds like it would be complicated at best, downloading the web page(s) and filtering through the HTML for relevant/necessary data to put into the database. My worry is that the info on these mainly static sites is so static, that the data isn't even kept in a database to build the page and the web page itself is updated (hard-coded) when something changes.
I could really use some help and suggestions here. Thanks!
Screen scraping is always problematic IMO as you are at the mercy of the person who wrote the page. If the content is static, then I think it would be easier to copy the data manually to your database. If you wanted to keep up to date with changes, you could then snapshot the page when you transcribe the info and run a job to periodically check whether the page has changed from the snapshot. When it does, it sends an email for you to update it.
The above method could also be used in conjunction with some sort of screen scaper which could fall back to a manual process if the page changes too drastically.
Ultimately, it is a case of how much effort (cost) is your client willing to bear for accuracy
I have done this for the following site: http://www.buscatchers.com/ so it's definitely more than doable! A key feature of a web scraping solution for travel sites is that it must send you emails if anything went wrong during the scraping process. On the site, I use a two day window so that I have two days to fix the code if the design changes. Only once or twice have I had to change my code, and it's very easy to do.
As for some examples. There is some simplified source code here: http://www.buscatchers.com/about/guide. The full source code for the project is here: https://github.com/nicodjimenez/bus_catchers. This should give you some ideas on how to get started.
I can tell that the data is dynamic, it's to well structured. It's not hard for someone who is familiar with xpath to scrape this site.