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here is my project in a nutshell:
- Site for an artist cooperative apartment complex.
- web team edits pages about the co-op.
- artists have profiles they can update in a very limited way.

That limited way consists of having 2 types of forums the artists in the
building can fill out. The process would look like this:

1. New user registration.
They fill in name, headshot photo, brief bio, website URL, twitter, etc.
This can be edited later but is required now.

2. moderator approves user.

3. they can add projects.
They fill out a form with a project title, description,
flickr/youtube/soundcloud URL for EE to embed, style and display on its end.

Any number of new projects can be added. The artist can log in and change
the “fields,” but never ever get to choose anything stylistically in order
for all the profiles look uniform and consistant in design.

And so that is my task at the moment. That all being said, how easy would
this be to accomplish in EE? what kinds of extensions should I look into?
how would you go about this task?

thanks for all your help and advice!

- jeffrey
tilsnerartists.org

I would probably use a combination of Zoo Visitor and Safecracker.

I should post this here too. This is the response I got from support:

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EE works by allowing you to define your content. You then create the fields necessary for the various types of data. This makes end user experience much simpler and easier.

For the little bit that I know of your project I could see you having at least two channels. The first would have all of the Artist Info. The second would be project info. You could then use an add-on like Playa to relate these two items. This would allow the most flexibility as then you could associate multiple relationships. So if you have multiple artist on a single project or an artist with multiple projects etc you could bring them together for display.
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so far we have these plugins to look into:

playa
SafeCracker
zoo visitor

the client should be cutting me a check this week to cover the cost of an EE license.  I hope I can hit the ground running and figure EE out fairly quickly I’ve never used it thus far.

I would probably use a combination of Zoo Visitor and Safecracker.

cool. I will look into those. would I need playa if I had zoo visitor? do they both tackle the same problem?

also, if anyone thinks these are are better options out there, please share a better solution!

event calendar integration: solspace / calendar
soundcloud integration: devot-ee / soundcloud
flickr integration: ee-hive.com / flickr-for-expressionengine
vimeo/youtube integration: duktee / video-player
user access: Zoo Visitor, safecracker, playa
(sorry for the lack of URLs apparently I can’t post links until I have a license)

anyone?
would I need playa if I had zoo visitor? do they both tackle the same problem?

Playa is for handing relationships between entries. For example, I use it to relate all kinds of entries (file downloads, industry applications) to their associated products. It provides a more flexible way to manage those relationships than native EE. I haven’t used Zoo Visitor, but from what I’ve read its power lies in the fact that your member database is stored in a regular channel, so you gain all the flexibility that goes along with that. Playa would work nice in conjunction with Visitor if you wanted to relate certain member fields with other channel entries. So no, Playa and Visitor don’t accomplish the same thing.

So if you are going to have a bunch of artists (that will actually be site members, meaning they will need to log in) and you want to relate them to (or let them own) projects, then yes I think Visitor in combination with Playa would allow this.