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Can someone tell me if the following functionality is possible with EE tags or if it will require Javascript or PHP.

Explanation:
I would like to create a form on a webpage that allows a user to enter their name.

• When the user clicks submit, their name appears in a live numbered list on the page where the entry form field resides (or, a different specified page).

or,

• when a user registers for the site and selects a check box, their name is automatically added to the numbered live list (on a specific page).

With either of the above possibilities, the goal is to be able to manage the “live” list and users through EE admin.

I’m in the process of learning EE, hacking through the KB with a basic Core practice site. But, I don’t foresee my light bulb moment coming soon enough to get me past this feature in the near future .. and, will be looking for dev assistance after I purchase EE, if this functionality will require advanced programming.

Thanks

Can you be a bit more specific?  Are you wanting something ajax specific?  Or is this “live” list just a list of like the last ten registered/active people?

It sounds like you might need a plugin, but this shouldn’t be too hard to do, on first glance.  Some further explanation would be helpful, though.

I want to create a running list of people who support a cause - register or enter name - name appears in list on live web page, not simply the last ten people who added their name. 

In other words, unlimited number of names.

Eventually, I will be having an application built (ajax, flex, php) with a far more robust feature set that will incorporate the list, but I would like to create this basic list functionality to get started.

I think that’s easy enough to do.  You could do it with the simple commerce module, in fact… with it’s promote to member group function.  Don’t charge anything, but it would promote the users to a usergroup.  Then, on your “live list” page, you just display all the members in that particular member group.  Auto updates, you can also manually update it via the admin cp.  Shouldn’t be hard. 

This needs the personal or commercial version to do this, of course—not core.

I appreciate the quick response and suggestion.  I’ll look into the simple commerce module as potential solution.

Time to belly up and pay for this monster.

You could do this in a much simpler way.  Just let all members in that group post entries to a weblog made for collecting their signatures, and use the weblog entries tag to list the last 10 entries made to that weblog…