Hi Guys
I'm currently building a site for an educational company which is split into two sections - the public area (the standard public site - visitors can browse services, contact form, home page, etc) and a students-only private area (not the cms admin but a students-only zone with resources, timetables, policies, forum, etc).
I can see how to do this with groups/roles/permissions/etc - but the two areas require different themes and this is where I've gotten stuck.
As an additional requirement I'd like the students-only zone to run off a separate domain (http://my.domainhere.com) - not *necessary* but preferred if poss.
After trawling the forums and Google and scouring the SilverStripe book and documentation, I've got a few options that I think might work but I just don't have the dev experience with SilverStripe yet to know which is the best path to go down.
Could an SS Wizard offer some advice/guidance on how to implement the above setup?
So far I've considered using the Subsites module - but I'm mostly concerned about the lack of documentation and its stability. I know I could do the separate domains with this mod, and be able to switch between the public and private zones of the site with it but... I'm just not sure.
I also found something (prob in these forums but I can't recall) adding a choice of theme via the admin at the top level of the tree and then letting it cascade down... I'm being a bit vague because it was just before Christmas that I looked at this method but hopefully I've made sense enough that you can understand what I mean :)
I would really appreciate either some pros/cons of either or both of the above methods, or suggestions for a better way to implement this. Feel free to shoot me questions and I'll do my best to be as specific as you need. Thanks in advance!