Will processwire be a good fit for our listing websites?

[spark]

Hi all,

I've just come across PW as we're investigating various CMS's for a future project and was wondering whether it would be a good fit. So far I'm very impressed with the flexibilty and documentation.

A few questions that hopefully some of you could help me with:

The idea is to have one main admin site which will power a number of listings websites. Each listing site will have similar format and features but the design and content will differ. The main site will be www.admin.com (example) and doesn't require any frontend apart from a login for members. Here our members can login to manage their listings which will be placed on www.listingsite1.com / www.listingsite2.com etc.

I looked through the modules section and saw the multi site option so this will probably do the trick in this respect. A question on this: will having this setup have any effect on SEO or will the search engines view them as completely standalone and individual sites?

Is there a members module that enables me to gear my setup towards members rather than pages? We'd also like to intergrate some form of ecommerce so the payment and renewals can be automated. Ideally I'd like a member to login and see:

- his member profile

- his listings

- his payment status

I'm aware that there will be many gaps in my description above so please let me know any questions.

Many thanks,

Konrad

[diogo]

Welcome to the forum spark. I don't have much time to answer but wanted to refer one thing: members are also pages and they are as extensible as any other page. They can also be connected to other pages on a one-to-one or one-to-many relation via pageFields. Hope this gives you a clue concerning your second point.

[spark]

Hi Diogo,

Thanks for the welcome and your reply. I didn't know that members are also pages - I'll have to look into this.

We're also looking at using Expression Engine for this project and they have an interesting 3rd party module: Zoo visitor - is there anything like this for PW?

Thanks again,

Konrad

[Martijn Geerts]

1. Adds the same flexibility to your member profiles as you have in regular channels
   1. Don't know what a channel is, but a user is a page, using the user template, which can be extended the way you want.
2. Register & edit members directly in Control Panel channel entries
   1. Using the PW api it's easy to create users/pages & update pages/users, or in admin
3. Use all fieldtypes in member profiles
   1. No problem, see post 1.
4. Choose membergroup upon registration
   1. Use a fieldtype of type Page extending the user template, or use roles
5. Comes with a full member profile management example template set (Registration, update profile, update password, update login templates)
   1. Search the forum, there are plenty of examples. Don't forget users are pages.
      1. Registration -> create a page using user template.
      2. update profile & update password -> save page
      3. update login templates -> Don't know what this is

All can be done quite easily. And after you've done this, you'll will feel convenient working with ProcessWire. 

[spark]

Thanks Martijn, I'll certainly look into this. Found some more useful threads on the forum here too so looking into them further now.

Thanks again,

Konrad

[renobird]

Just want to give a +1 to Martijn's post.

There's no grab-and-go solution (i.e. Module) for this, but you can configure the user template quite easily.