# Adding functionality and multiple sites

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-functionality-and-multiple-sites/117897>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [October 22, 2007, 8:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-functionality-and-multiple-sites/117897 "2007-10-22T08:02:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Niko\_Kotiniemi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@Niko\_Kotiniemi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Niko_Kotiniemi)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 8:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-functionality-and-multiple-sites/117897/1 "2007-10-22T08:02:44Z")

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I’m planning on starting a component-type (borrowing the term from  
Joomla, with which I’m more familiar with) project and wondering if it  
could be done inside Radiant as some sort of custom page as opposed to  
making it from scratch based on the ruby and rails books. I’m quite  
new to both Rails and Radiant but since there’s no tight deadline, I’m  
figuring it would be okay to learn as I go along.

First: the component would be a sort of inventory & product  
description set of pages in which each product and each view (e.g.  
list products) would have their own page. Basically a tree-like  
hierarchy although in some cases externally (to the visitor) there  
would be several parents to a single page, I’m sure this could be made  
with sidebar linking or some such solution, therefore I’m inclined to  
ask if it can be done? (in essence having specialized pages that  
include information from a database, just like php-includes in  
otherwise static pages). The page caching is no problem in this case  
as the information will change so rarely as that the 5min cache will  
have no detrimental effect.

Secondly I read through most of the Radiantcms site and several  
extensions piqued my interest, I have to ask (I expect they can’t, but  
still no harm in asking if someone has tried):

- Are the multi-site hacks and multi-language hacks compatible with  
Radiant 0.63?
- Has anyone used multi-site and multi-language hacks combined so that  
under one radiant installation there are several sites some of which  
have multiple languages? If so, any problems or issues I should be  
aware of?
- If the above can be done, can different users have different access  
level to different parts of the administration hierarchy? I mean, if a  
radiant installation has three sites, and user 1 would be allowed to  
post/modify articles in one of them, but not all three?

Any insights appreciated, sorry for the long post - I tried to cram  
all the questions bugging me into one mail.

Kindest regards,

Niko Kotiniemi