I've started testing XOOPS as a CMS system to replace the aging, non-dynamic and frankly annoying static HTML that was previously in use for a site I admin (www.bb.org.nz).
I've installed XOOPS (v. easy! :) ), played around with all the default modules, found the excellent multiMenu module (which I'll be using to link to sub-sites), and after reading around here a ton, I've decided to clone the excellent 'News' module, and reuse several times
. Turns out that module is REALLY flexible!
But still have two problems to get around, and am unsure of how to go about it.
There is a need for one page/section of the site to be a very large tabulated list, with the values coming from an MS Access database. Similar to this page:
http://d3229106.x59.kiwihosting.net.nz/company/index.html
ATM that list was made by hand (arrrggghhh), and is as a result VERY out of date. So:
1) Are you guys aware of any modules/tools that would aid the creation of such a section of the site? If I have to make a module, so be it - but I would REALLY appreciate a pointer in the right direction if anyone has had to do a page with content all out of an Access DB before
Finally, there are a few sub-sections of the site where I would like to include content that has been running for a few years already. While a cloned 'News' module would come close to what I want, the content is current in CSS'd HTML files such as:
http://d3229106.x59.kiwihosting.net.nz/publications/officers/2004_02/index.html
2) What is the best way to add existing HTML content like this into a site. Given there are many such pages, is there any XOOPS module out there that will display the content (between <BODY> </BODY> tags) of an existing HTML page inline (inside your XOOPS sites' interface with menu's etc), using the CSS stylesheet etc that is in-use by the content page? Similar to a 'News' module - but instead of showing a short news item that you post, showing the contents of an existing HTML document (which is W3C compliant).
(if not, at least I had the forethought to use the same CSS template between all HTML content pages
)
Any help/advice much appreciated.
