Occasionally, we may wish to create a weblog that our members can post to, without giving them access to the control panel at all. The Stand-Alone Entry Form is essentially a recreation of our Publish page form, but is an integral part of our main website.
Note
The code in this section has been adapted from the Stand-Alone Entry Form documentation at http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/weblog/entry_form.html. For the purposes of this book, not all tags are included. Please refer to the ExpressionEngine website for complete documentation on this feature.
To demonstrate the Stand-Alone Entry Form, we are going to add the form to our Toast News
weblog, allowing our Editors member group to post Toast News
weblog entries without logging into the control panel.
1. Go to the Templates tab, select the news template group, and click New Template to create a new template called post_entry. Create an empty template and click...