Dynamic Content Module?

  • pyronaught

    (@pyronaught)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    I’m in the process of booting DotNetNuke to the curb and am on day #2 of evaluating WordPress and really like what I see. On the DNN platform there was a module called XMOD which allowed you to create templates using special tags that could mix data pulled from database queries into standard HTML page content. This is very similar to how server side pages are built using PHP or ASP code, except XMOD was much more limited in what it could do. The advantage was that you could just drop the module on a page and then link it up to a template you had created and have a dynamic page without having to write a custom module.

    In the WordPress world is there a similar plugin, or would this be done by building a custom theme using PHP? I’m having a hard time searching on this subject since I don’t know the official terminology for doing this.

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  • DavidWSnow

    (@davidwsnow)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    I too am considering mygrating from DotNetNuke and am using Open Web Studio for dynamic content. You can do a lot with just php and MySQL, but if you have a lot of pages and compex queries and output that would be apain in the butt.

    I am looking for some tool or plugin as well.

    You can see what I have done with OWS at http://www.agingsafely.com/listed_homes.aspx
    Listd Homes page.

    Thread Starter pyronaught

    (@pyronaught)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    My biggest issue with DNN, other than how slow and bloated it has become, is that there is really only one forum option and development on it appears to be dead and support (community or otherwise) is completely non existent. The forum is a major feature of my site and it is currently killing me since the DNN forum is inferior to the php based forums my competition all use. Staging and upgrading DNN is a major pain too, then when you run into problems (which happens a LOT), getting answers is next to impossible. It just seems to be a dying platform.

    Another big DNN problem is how freaking expensive the shopping cart modules are. Smith Cart is a never ending money hole due to their short period on free updgrades and then requiring you to pay full price again after that, combined with how buggy it is. Cart Viper is the only other viable solution and while it is superior to Smith Cart, it is also very expensive now. Meanwhile WordPress has a FREE commerce plugin and most other plugins are either free or very reasonably priced.

    Thread Starter pyronaught

    (@pyronaught)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    It looks like templates is the way to do XMOD type stuff in WordPress. Templates gives you a lot more power than XMOD ever had anyway, due to being able to use a real language (PHP) instead of the limited XMOD tags.

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