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  Posted: Oct 22, 2005 - 08:30 PM

  I am toying with the idea of building a movie review module, my thinking on this would be to start with the news module. As this stands I believe this offers 4 initial fields- title, article lead in, the article proper and notes.
  
  Which as they stand could be modified to - title, plot, review and recommendation. So far so good.
  
  But this does require additional fields- eg cast member 1-5, director, distributor and a rating (reviewer rating as opposed to user rating) and possibly an amazon link
  
  To achieve this I am guessing that I will need to change - the install file to take into acount extra fields and that since most of what is being added is text, I would have to look what is being done with story lead in and duplicate this for the new fields (with maybe a little tweaking) I also have an idea for adding a stills gallery to each review based on this-
  
  http://forums.postnuke.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=42552&start=0
  
  I am also guessing I will have to tinker with the search to make it all serachable and add story.
  
  before I embark on all this I would welcome any suggestions, potential pitfalls- and any other stuff that you feel I should know.
  
  regards
  herman

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  Posted: Oct 23, 2005 - 04:54 AM

  i would check the Reviews (or even ProdReviews) module, and take from that, it has comments built in, ratings, lead in,
  
  only problem is the Review module isnt pnRendered.

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  Posted: Oct 26, 2005 - 06:37 AM

  cannibus

  i would check the Reviews (or even ProdReviews) module, and take from that, it has comments built in, ratings, lead in,
  
  only problem is the Review module isnt pnRendered.

  
  
  Thanks for that. But Ive had a major rethink, for what I need to achieve I didn't really need a module at all. There was no reason why I could not have put all the info I needed in the story lead in.
  
  Sometimes I guess there is always the temptation to look for a complex solution where one is not really needed.
  
  It maybe a bit cack handed but if I combine all this with auto links that point to a search then I can create a pseudo movie database.
  
  This leaves me one thing to investigate and I am in business, how to allow HTML in articles but not in comments, any ideas would be again appreciated .
  
  Seems however I can build a working movie database around news
  
  Incidentally if these lines in news/index.php :
  
  

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  switch (pnConfigGetVar('storyorder')) {
  case '1':
  $storyorder = "$storcol[time] DESC";
  break;
  default:
  $storyorder = "$storcol[sid] DESC";
  break;
  

  
  
  is altered to sort by title and aricles is posted in catagories a-z and topics are set to years eg 2005,2004 etc then I think I would pretty much have achieved what I set out to achieve.
  
  This can be used to display video/dvd covers for each article/review:
  
  http://forums.postnuke.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=42552&start=0
  
  and then bobs yer uncle.
  
  all the best,
  
  herman

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