The one where I talk about Mambo and Football
Posted on June 27, 2007
Filed Under Football, Life |
I’ve been very busy over the last few days hence the lack of posting. This busy period has been caused by my latest web project, Scottish Junior Football News which I’ve built using the Mambo platform. Not the most intuitive interface I’ve ever used. Wordpress is much better. However, the aim of the site is for user submitted content to make up the bulk of it.
I’m having some issues setting correct permissions for users. They can either do nothing at all or rewrite the entire website. I want them only to be able to submit news items, transfer talk and match reports, not completely rearrange the front end. I can see this one causing me to tear my hair out. Could be tricky. Posts are out there on the Mambo forums at the minute requesting details of how to achieve my aims so fingers crossed.
Junior football is something that I’ve come back to at various points in my life. I think it’s because for me it has a lifelong association with my Grandfather. I used to go to a game with him every weekend from the ages of 15 to about 17. He liked his football although to be honest I’m not sure his enthusiasm for a game a week matched mine. It’s testament to the type of man he was that he went along anyway. Junior teams tend to be located in small communities outside of major cities and there was no way I was getting anywhere without him and his car.
Contrary to what a lot of people think, Junior football is not youth football. Rather, it is a separate football association unique to Scotland. Players are all adult and are semi-professional. It bridges a gap between the amateur and professional game. It has it’s own televised cup final every year and has a culture all of it’s own. You’re a juniors man or you’re not as far as I can see. Black and white.
What I remember from those days is the colour and the excitement of junior football. Teams with weird names such as Kilbirnie Ladeside, Auchinleck Talbot, Dundee North End and Bonnyrigg Rose. Old teams with proud histories, some as old as Scottish league teams. Some matches attracted large crowds, particularly if it was a cup game against one of the large Ayrshire sides.
What I remember most from those days though is the afternoons spent with my Grandad more than 20 years ago when although I thought he was old, he wasn’t really. He was only in his 60’s. I’d give anything now to relive five minutes of that time.
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Any reason why you didn’t consider Joomla? It’s built on mambo technology but, for example, has the user roles you require out of the box, similar to the user roles of wordpress.
Thanks Sarah. Joomla doesn’t have the basic level of user input either. The lowest setting you can give is author. I ended up downloading a component called JA Submit which suits both Mambo and Joomla and allows this, however it broke Mambo and wrecked the site.
The upshot is that having lost all the data etc I decided to just switch to Joomla and rebuild the site from scratch anyway. What a day yesterday was. I’d had a few registered members already on board as well.
Ahh I thought Author only allowed front end article submitting and nothing more!