this might be answered very simply with a no but i have to ask.
i have a static website i want to add some plugins i see MT has available.. can i install MT in a subdirectory and use a plugin (the plugin specifically is MajorDojo.com's Contact form http://www.majordojo.com/projects/movable-type/contact-forms/) in my main site? i saw the tutorial and it has an html code to apply the contact form anywhere in the site, but does it have to be in MT's directory to work?
If your question is whether or not you can use a plugin effectively as standalone software, then the answer is "no." You can install MT, ContactForm and other plugins and use them to create pages and forms at certain paths, but you cannot just use a plugin as standalone software.
that cleared part of my question.. but let me try rephrase:
can i install MT and the plugin in www.mydomain.com/MovableType/ and then use the code from the contact form plugin in www.mydomain.com/contact.html ?
What do you mean by "use the code from the contact form plugin?" You can install MT anywhere you want that you can access in a browser, and then have it write a page to contact.html if that's what you're asking.
>> What do you mean by "use the code from the contact form plugin?"
what i mean is to use the HTML code provided by the contact form plugin and use it in a static page outside the MT's subdirectory. The thing i dont like about CMS, or that i am not rdy for it is that i dont know how to do custom template designs yet.. and clients dont like generic templates.
>> What do you mean by "use the code from the contact form plugin?"
what i mean is to use the HTML code provided by the contact form plugin and use it in a static page outside the MT's subdirectory. The thing i dont like about CMS, or that i am not rdy for it is that i dont know how to do custom template designs yet.. and clients dont like generic templates.
You probably could, but it would still be using the MT backend, and a copy-and-paste job might break paths in the HTML if you're not careful. The only good choices here are to either write some PHP or Perl code to handle the form processing yourself, or read up on Movable Type and the Contact Forms enough to be comfortable with managing it from Movable Type.
thanks for your help and advice :)