Hi all, I've just stumbled upon October, and I must say I'm impressed. I'm currently trying out different options, and I was wondering if October would suit my needs? I'm also trying out Processwire, and I think it's an excellent framework, but I'm looking for something that might be a touch easier to use.

So here are my questions:

1. I am assuming it will be easy enough to use October with Foundation 5?
2. Is it possible to create our own permissions and user groups? i.e I want new users to have access to certain parts of the site or page, and regular users to have access to more pages etc.
3. How hard would it be to create an integrated forum like the one here? I don't want to use third-party software for my forum etc.
4. What is October like performance wise?
5. Will my users be able to create content and edit content from the front-end if I use forms etc? If so, is there any built in sanitizing?

Thanks.

1. I don't know... but I would guess yes. Just create your own theme (i've not done this, but doesn't look difficult)
2. Right now, this is very easy to do w/ backend (ie, permissions/groups on the backend is built in to octobercms). For frontend permissions, you would need to create your own plugin OR use https://github.com/rainlab/user-plugin. That plugin does not have groups functionality, but would be easy to add (I think you basically just have to create a groups database, a pivot table users_groups, and simple interface in backend). All the authentication stuff is built into the rain library as the rest should be easy. I will be doing this soon for a project and will probably be pushing some "pull requests" to that plugin.
3. I have no idea... there is the forum plugin: http://octobercms.com/plugin/rainlab-forum . I have not tested it
4. I've found it very fast (its slow locally on my windows computer, but on my server behind nginx it is crazy fast).... click and I'm there. That said... I'm not running it on a shared host, shared hosting sucks.
5. You can create that functionality. I do not know if you can use the backend forms functionality (ie... http://octobercms.com/docs/backend/forms) on the frontend. As for sanitizing, laravel and twig have ways of doing this. For example, you can e() escape your content before giving it to the template... or use twigs method of escaping. You could also use something like htmlpurifier.. I've seen a couple laravel packages for it (see: https://github.com/mewebstudio/Purifier).

I'm busy with a front-end user managment plugin. You can make your own custom fields, and user groups / permissions. I'm also busy with an advanced forum plugin :) So you guys have to wait.

Thank you for the replies. I'm the type that prefers to do everything with Sublime Text, so it's nice to see we can do it that way as well.

@Shahiem, your plugins sound nice. I like the simplicity of this forum, and I'm personally not after anything too bloated.

@Beewulf I myself use Brackets for developing my website (sometimes combined with the /backend) It's a blast to use! :)

@Shahiem, I have a project I'm working on that needs frontend user/groups... I was about to build of the existing users plugin (from rainlab)... do you mind sharing your code (on github maybe) so we could work on it together?

I use the Rainlab user plugin as example, but I put my own twist on it. One of these days I'll put my code on Github :)

@Shahiem +1 :)

I use the Rainlab user plugin as example, but I put my own twist on it. One of these days I'll put my code on Github :)

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Hi Beewulf, Just wondering how you got on with this, I've just posted a similar list of questions. Have you tried october with Foundation 5 yet? I've been looking at processwire too.

Thanks