By meric on

Hi,

This is what I'm planning to do:
I'm currently researching for an alternative to our existing private label sites. Basically, this service would give the applicants a private labelled domain registration site for philippine domains (.ph), which is a subdomain provided by our company (i.e. privatelabel.domains.ph, mysite.domains.ph). Now, I'm trying to find out if we can use drupal to implement our private label sites.

We plan to use drupal's multi-site capabilities, I've tested and got that to work.
The sites we provide are editable via inline editing. Currently they can change the layout, and other editable portions on the fly, while keeping the required HTML forms (registration form), and its links intact. For example, the sidebar, header, footer and the right sidebar can be edited, as it is with drupal. Now, my concern is the content. In our current setup, the main content is a wizard-like registration page, which runs across at least 5 pages. Now we were thinking if we can make the readable texts in these pages editable without actually exposing the source code (just the appropriate html portion) to the private label owners. Can I do this with drupal? It's a risk if they are permitted to edit the whole content body, which is the case in drupal's edit mode for content pages.

Is this possible with drupal? If so, please point me directions on how this can be achieved with drupal CMS..

cheers.

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Macronomicus commented

Well sort of ... there are some similarities, especially relating to your last point.

I am using the CCK module kit along with conTemplate to achieve something on the order of what you mentioned.

I wanted to create some base templates to keep my administrators from messing with the html etc; I wanted them to simply enter in various bits through a controlled form interface. If you look at the CCK modules you will see what I am talking about. I have several things I dont want them to touch like my flash embeding script, save for them simply adding the url to the xml image feed related to that node being created; in this case a Resort.

I created a template which lays out this content type it uses hooks to place various fields from the edit form in a nicely stylized and layed out form. So the editor can get right down to the precise information to add a property and not burn any time pasting html etc. I am having some difficulties with tabs as you have seen in my other post which you responded to; but I think this may be a way for you to control exactly what spots people are allowed to edit the content in.

Im not entirely sure how you would combine this to your setup. One thing I do know is that with conTemplate the body teaser and rss fields become available templatize. So you can organize which fields sit where in the html for the output and at the same time provide with a nice CCK edit form. Now I dont know if your only wanting inline editing but this works really well for me... Save for the small tabs issue im having.

I hope this helps...