Hello peoples!
Well, I finally found the time to download & install XAMPP & xoops w/publisher onto my laptop, so that I could test it out and see if it might be suitable. Unfortunately, it does not have all of the capabilities I am hoping for. What I would like to do is to allow people to submit their "stories" and select any and all "tags" which may apply to them, so that stories would then be listed under any and all tags which have been selected. The way it is currently set up is far too restrictive - only allowing them to submit an article under a single "category". The way I envision my site working is to allow them to select more than one "tag" or "category", so that when readers come to the site, they can select one of those tags and see any and all stories related to it.

Is there any way to add a module which will allow for this to be added to the publisher functionality? Does such a module exist?

Um... thanks linux-ws, that was really nice.

Does anyone have a link to a website which is using the publisher module in the ways that I have described, so that I might see it "in action"? It would be hugely appreciated - I'm having a little trouble just "imagining" how it would work (I can imagine what I want, just not sure how to use publisher to do it).

Thanks in advance,
RM

Thanks noo-b! I have been looking around, but unable to actually find a site listed as using this module. It's a little hard to know what is possible without seeing it in action - would you have a link to a site which is using this module? Sorry to be a pain - I just don't have a lot of time to download/install/test different modules, so it would really be helpful to be able to see something that is already up and running...

thanks again!
RM

Well, this isn't the topic that I'm going to be doing (at all!), but this website has a lot of the capabilities that I want:http://www.lovestory.com.au/

Thanks for your quick reply, Mamba. I'm not really looking to build a "news" site - what I'd like to do is to have a website which has "stories" - not news stories, but personal stories. So I'd like to allow people to submit their own stories, with their own pics. The news module would just be a small section of the site, and not the main part.

Hi Folks,
I am going to be putting together a website which will consist (mainly) of stories relating to a specific general topic. In order to attract readers (and hopefully, advertisers), I would like to allow people to submit their own stories, which would then be reviewed by myself or a select few "editors" before being published on the site. Ideally, I'd like to allow submitters to also attach a pic or two (to go with their stories), and allow readers to rate stories and possibly even to discuss them.

One of the main things I want to do with the stories is to allow submitters (and editors, for that matter) to attach one or more "tags" which categorize them (like "funny", "uplifting", "inspirational", etc.). Visitors to the site would then be able to click on one of these tags to find those stories.

I might also want to include a news module, which linked to stories about the general topic, and a couple of modules allowing for ads.

Now, my questions are these:
Having worked as a PHP developer in a past life, I could probably build a website which does all of these things, but I've got a life, so I'm actually hoping to find something that will cover much of this (and be easily edited to provide whatever else I need). Do you think that Xoops would fit the bill?

thanks in advance...