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Extension Key: cwt_community
Copyright 2000-2007, Sebastian Faulhaber, <sebastian.faulhaber@gmx.de>
This document is published under the Open Content License
available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
The content of this document is related to TYPO3
- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com
This extension provides a wide range of community features for frontend users of a Typo3 website. It mainly consists of the following parts (which are implemented as separate T3 plugins):
Userlist – This view provides an alphabetic list of all community users (fe_users). From here you can add other users to your buddylist and you are able to send messages to community participants.
Profile – Every user has his own personal profile page, where his realname, city, e-mail, online status, website... and a photo are displayed.
Profile Administration – The community users are able to administer their profile pages by themselves. (using CWT Frontend Edit)
Guestbook – Every user has his own guest book, where other users can pin their messages. The guest book owning user can close and open his guest book for postings. Furthermore the user can delete entries from his guest book.
Messages – All community users can send and receive messages from other community members. Therefore this extension provides a personal message box for every single user, where he is able to delete, reply on messages.
Buddylist – Every user can keep his own address book with this feature. The user can send messages from this view directly and is able to see the online status of his buddies.
Welcome – This is intended to be the personal start page for users, which may be shown after login. The user will be informed about new community mail, which might have arrived since his last login. In addition to that new buddy invitations are displayed.
Gallery – This features a personal photo gallery for each frontend user, where he will be able to create his own photo albums and put pictures in it. The authorization system allows to defines access rights (all community members, only those on his buddylist or nobody) on a per album basis. Finally T3 frontend users are able to put comments on each photo.
Search – The community extension provides two different search masks which can be used to find frontend users based on a versatile set of search options: username, age, city, etc..
User Administration – You can enable and disable community users in the backend.
Gallery Administration – The administration of the frontend user galleries is tightly integrated in the backend userlist. The administrator is able to delete complete albums, single photo or even single comments for a photo.
Mailing – The mailing module can send messages to all frontend users or to members of a specific usergroup. The messages will then appear in the appropriate users' inboxes'.
The list above is the full list of this extensions features. However, you do not have to use all of them on your website. Please read the installation section for more information on which features you can combine and which not.
The layout is complete customizable by changing the templates. Additionally all icons used wihtin this extension can be changed via the Constant Editor.
Here you can see a set of screenshots that show the main parts this extension provides.
Illustration 1 - This view shows all community members. From here you can directly send messages to other users.
Illustration 5 - This is the buddylist of a user. From here you can directly send messages to other users.
Illustration 7 - Backend User Administration. In this view you get a brief overview over your community users. Furthermore you can quickly enable/ disable user accounts.
