New Site Help

[GMeagle86]

Hey All,
I need to create a site that has the following features and I want to know how easy it will be (or if there is something out there I can mod etc.):

1. Announcements/Calendar
2. General pages with content
3. Maybe a contact form
4. A database that manages a member list
5. That member list ties into the site so that the members can login, update their profile, view 'members only pages etc'.
6. Have a admin interface so that the admins can manage the members and update/add members, post anouncements etc.
7. Have an e-mail list that can be sent out to all members, or certain 'segmented' members (depending on certain things they are involved in)

Thanks for your help!

[elcius]

And you want the nice people here to make this for you?
have you even done anything your self.

[GMeagle86]

No, I was simply wondering how easy it would be. I'm not that good at working with PHP. I was hoping someone knew of a guide, or a template of something like that which I could use to help me.

Maybe someone knows of a CMS that would work. I've been looking at a few, but they don't seem to do what I would like them to do.

[Blulagoon]

Well, its all fairly standard stuff.

1 & 2 can be dynamic content generated from a MySQL database.

3 is straight forward HTML, 4 & 5 need an authentication system based again on MySQL.

6 If you have limited trustworthy admins you might just let them access something like phpmyadmin rather than try and write something yourself.

7 Look at the mail() function on www.php.net

If I were you I'd look at some of the PHP books around, many of them have examples of the kind of thing you are trying to achieve.

HTH - Blu

[Houdini]

Most any CMS if properly set up and using the proper addons will do what you want, just looking at one and not actually using one will not show you very much, all CMS I am aware of use a database normally MySQL but most also support other database servers. You can make your own contact form and save it as a block with a CMS, the calendar while perhaps not with a standard install is also a module or block that can be added to your CMS, you might want to look at the hime page of them like PHP-Nuke, XOOPs, Joomla, Post Nuke, Dragonfly, you might want to set up a webserver with PHP and MySQL and actually use one or more of the above mentioned just to see what they are capable of.