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I am stuck. Really stuck. I do not know a page type from a checkbox or what is best to use when and where. I do understand text, text-area, file, image, and URL. I'm not sure of all the other ones :* I've been researching but coming up empty or coming up with more information which just goes over my head. I am trying to get the basics. When I say basics, I mean just trying to set up fields in PW. So far all I have are these below and I'm running out of time: I will pay anyone who successfully walks me through this. I understand the very basics of PW and have put together a couple personal sites already. But those sites weren't on a week time-frame and they were pretty static. PM / Message me and I promise to send you a paypal payment for your time and help. Please. This is urgent. Here's what I'm looking to do: I need to set up a music site / showcase for a label. Each artist has to have their own page which will contain each of their albums. I will also need a main catalog page of all the site's music. The Artist Page The artist page will contain: bio and pictures of each of their albums which will be a link to the album's page Album Page Album Description Individual tracks for Download Track Lyrics Full-Length Album Download Catalog Page This page will contain a searchable listing using a JQuery Datatable (http://www.datatables.net/). It will contain a listing for each song on the site which also must contain the information below. It has to also be searchable by: Track Title Song Publisher Songwriter Mood (each song needs to be associated with a mood: happy, sad, upbeat, etc) Genre (rock, pop, jazz, etc) Artist Name Play button (to preview the song) When a listing is clicked on, it should go to that particular song on related album page for that artist. All the songs have to be integrated with Foxycart as well, but I should be able to make that happen. If not, if you have any experience with Foxycart as well, I will also pay for help for that as well. This is a serious offer. The more help I can get, the better for you. I need to know: Which fields to set up How to Organize / Structure the Tree What Templates I should create Possible Code Basically, what will will do / how would you do it. Thank you very much. I look forward. Again, I am not a complete newbie. I know how to code advanced HTML / CSS and highly technical inclined and have built very simple sites with PW before, but not like this and not this fast. I have a week and that's it. I know enough PHP to follow along, but I'm not proficient. My jQuery sucks.

Hi everyone. I really need help /guidance knowing if this can be done and what direction I need to take. I have a week to develop and deploy a front end music catalog. I have some limited experience with PW, developing only very small sites....nothing of this magnitude and complexity. If you could guide me to the technologies I need to look at and point me in the right direction, I will be very appreciative. I need to create a searchable page for essentially a music catalog which will pull information from artist's pages. Each track / entry needs to have a number of sections associated with it (track title, length, genre, publisher, songwriter, mood), and maybe an external-pointing link to lyrics. Each line / track will also have to have a play button and link to the music purchasing page for that particular artist. All those sections / fields listed above need to be able to be searched / filtered as well. Easier if I just show you a link to something similar. http://www.noideaband.com/songlist/ That is a WP module and I want that basic look / feel / functionality. It needs to basically pull all of the music files / products from individual pages and into the catalog I don't know. Maybe I am in over-my-head but I am really not sure where to start :/ So here is the site structure I must have: Home - Music Catalog (contains all the songs/artists on the website. This must be a searchable database front-end) - Artists -Artist Name (contains info about artist, etc) -Album 1(contains individual tracks, bio, genre, lyrics, etc) -Album 2 -etc Thanks in advance for whatever information you can bring to the table.

Whoa, Abantecart looks very promising! I thought I searched all of the internet, however I didn't see any mention of this shopping cart. Great reply! I've been diving into the Foxycart documentation more deeply and even received a reply from the developer.Apparently, it will accomplish everything you could ask for in terms of a music store and it seems like the "keeps out the way of your CMS" philosophy is even more appealing. So this may be where I lean for the moment. Even though there is a cost, it almost seems worth it. Macrura - I wish I could get even $4k for this. This client isn't even on a budget. When I say no budget, I mean it's like $300 Yeah I know....sad. Only reason I am even thinking about doing it is because of a possible future return (cut of the action) sort of thing - long story. What is everyone's thoughts on "piece of mind" using the ecommerce software / platform. Do you look for a company that has been around a long time, has a lot of users, reviews, etc... or do you use whatever will work. I am just wondering because it seems like whatever you choose, it takes a bit of time and work to get it all setup in the end and you wouldn't want to repeat the process again, right?

What did you end up using?

Curious if anyone is doing this currently with Processwire. I would hate to use Wordpress for a project, but it seems for someone who isn't very talented at programming (I can hack through reading / googling), their plugin system may be my best bet as it seems they have something that will work for my needs. I just really hate managing / hacking Wordpress sites. I am taking a look at Foxycart, but unless I dive into it, I will not know if it will be what I'm looking for. I'm specifically looking for something that has: An integrated music player (not flash please) The ability to sell separate tracks as well as the complete album Integrates within the PW site itself instead of external Statistics showing how many downloads occurred for each particular artist / song as well as statistics for overall sales, etc... I've been researching for days. Thanks everyone

I installed a fresh PW dev version about an hour ago on a Wamp machine. It too had a password requirement. Ended up having to create a user in PhpMyAdmin with a password :/

Thank you. Interesting reads. What is specifically getting exported when you export the database? I ask because I have a fresh PW install on the development machine. I want to export the server database and import on my local/dev environment. I'd like to populate the dev database with at least top-level page content. I don't need every blog post or media upload. Can I selectively choose which tables get exported? I ask because it makes editing the templates easier when I can see some of my live site content. If not, the templates/pages are empty. Also, what if I want to add/test some new fields in the admin area and only want to update the live server with the new additions only? Is that possible by merging somehow? Or do I have to basically recreate everything on the live server from scratch in terms of fields and the local dev machine is just to used for "experimenting"? Is that how dynamic-site developers work? Still would like to know more about the Git workflow in conjunction with Wamp and multiple machines if anyone wants to chime in on that. Sorry I am asking so many questions. I am just trying to wrap my head around all of this. I've always been a static-website kind of developer until now. I just want a workflow that allows me to change/edit templates, add/edit fileds, apply cms updates and have all these managed through Git, synced trough multiple machines

Please read this first as this is very similar to what I currently do: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?1183418-Using-git-with-a-CMS-for-version-control-and-deployment. What I want to do with multiple machines I see all this talk about using the cloud with your local dev. environment and linking your local server to it so that you may edit and work on your files across multiple computers. I too am even contemplating this workflow and see why it’s so popular. However, it just seems like an extra step when there is Git available. Tell me if the workflow I am considering makes sense or not please. Although I have been researching for the four days, I am still new to Git and command-line, but I have become familiar with it over the weekend and really want to use a command-line/Git workflow. I have always developed sites the old-fashioned way (code, ftp, rinse, lather, repeat). Here is what I am contemplating: Develop locally in the default installation of WAMP. Commit files into Git local repo which my WAMP would be instructed to reference for it's "www and data" directory Push local repo to hosted private repo (Bitbucket) Pull hosted repo into live production server (not automatically since I want full control over when) If on another computer, pull / clone from Bitbucket and repeat My thinking is this could work with multiple computers as well, thus eliminating the need for Dropbox since the hosted repo will always have the most current version anyway. If I wanted to work on the site on another computer, couldn't I just clone the repo? The only hiccup I see is having to export/import the database each time. However, I am sure there is a way to automate this as well? I am interested in trying to come up with a way to keep the CMS's and it's database in sync as well. Is it possible to use the method I describe above? I’m curious to hear your thoughts and suggestions. Thank you very much for your time and knowledge. I would love to start a discussion on this because I really want to implement a better workflow, especially using Git with CMS's and if possible, it's databases.

Yes!! Thank you adrian! You are the man! I will be trying this out soon and will let you all know how I made out Thank you!!!

That would be awesome! I wish I was that advanced in my PHP to be able to tackle such a task, however I am not. I am still in the beginner stages of how to use PW If anyone would like to attempt this, please!!!!! I know many will appreciate it. I will definitely check out your module for page creation. Seems like that would help in that area as well!

Instead of creating a field one by one, is there any way to create multiples at the same time? For instance, if I wanted 3 text fields, it would be so awesome if I could type 3 comma separated names, labels and descriptions thus reducing time and increasing efficiency. I would love this feature!

I went ahead and made a "powered by processwire" animated GIF if anyone would like to use it Have two versions - one for black backgrounds and one for white. I made it kind of large so you can shrink it to whatever size you'd like. I am using a setting of 140 by 47 pixels. You can see the one for black backgrounds in action at one of the sites I designed here. I am searching for a GIF animator that will allow PNG files so I can have it completely transparent on any background. Will upload soon. For White Background For Black Backgrounds

maybe this will help? http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php Take a close look especially at the comments. Hope that helps!

Hi Matthew! Thank you very much for the compliments, and also taking the time to read through the pages I need a better spell checker indeed. I have since made the corrections. Thank you very much for noticing. As for the "Active Page State", I haven't decided yet how I wanted to implement on the main navigation (want to do something different). The number of pages are so small, I figured I could get away with it for a while As for the external link to Tumblr. I don't necessarily like it either, but I was pressed for time. I definitely enjoy using Tumblr for blogging, and their mobile app makes it quick and painless. However, I want to eventually pull the Tumblr posts into the main site so visitors will never have to leave. I haven't figured the easiest programming route to take with that as of yet, but I will as soon as I get a better handle on pulling API data from other sites

www.rockybourgoyne.com Processwire is awesome. Period. Using Form Builder and Markup Simple Navigation Module for navigation. Simple use of the CMS thus far, but am looking forward to doing more advanced things in the future with it.

Reason I ask is because my client uses Yahoo Small Business for their host. Well, believe it or not, yahoo does NOT allow .htaccess files to be uploaded for whatever dumb reason!!!! Can you believe that!?I have the site completely done and integrated with PW. I would have never guessed that a host wouldn't allow .htaccess. Now I am stuck with an impatient client breathing down my back. What am I to do??!!! OMG The client is not willing to switch hosts. FML!

Thanks for the reply! That site only gives the width of the specified grid element, not the browser size, correct?

Think I found a solution. http://benfrain.com/easily-display-the-viewport-size-of-your-page-for-responsive-designs/ Looking forward to still hearing your ways.

I'm getting into the whole responsive design thing and learning about breakpoints. I don't want to media query default breakpoint sizes since I'm removing myself from the device-based-breakpoints mindset. Instead, I'm focusing on the design based breakpoints, making adjustments where the design dictates. Since I am not using standard sizes, how do I determine/see the size of my browser as I adjust it at various sizes? I'm looking for a quick way. Thanks guys.

Where's the download buttom for this Module? I don't see it. Nevermind. It's installed by default, just not enabled. I'm an idiot..Please ignore

I don't know what that means. I'll look up output formatting, unless you would like to explain for me? :) Would love to know. Thank you. It works!!! I didn't set Max Images to 1. Thank you!! Just for the heck of it, how would I know/check the image is uploaded? By checking the files folder, correct?

Hi Grays, welcome to the forum. Even though I have been playing with PW for a couple months now, I too am still very green and new to it. I was in the same boat as you and still am trying to grasp the basics, but take the advice of everyone else above. The people here on the forums are very helpful and friendly. Don't be afraid to ask questions. There are a lot of smart peeps here and I find this is one of the most friendliest, most responsive CMS forums of them all. Make friends with other newbies (such as myself) and follow the questions they ask. Seach the forums for the ones asking basic questions and those will more likely be the newbies. I think for me, the best thing I could do was to take it slow and lower my expectations. I fell in love with PW right off the bat and wanted to be a a pro in it. But, even though I had read a few PHP books and took some courses beforehand, in reality I was lost and dissapointed. It's more a mental/confidence thing with me, but once I accepted the fact that it was going to take some time, and I wasn't going to be an immediate whiz, things got easier. So. I started off (still am) doing the basics, one thing at a time. Break up your site into smaller parts and work on each one by one. When you get something simple working, your pride will fuel the next challenge and before you know it, you'll be at the top. Analyze the code here in the forums and don't just copy/paste. Try to really understand it by cross checking with how PHP works. A great thread started not long ago on learning PHP is here. You may not understand it in one try, I know I didn't. Sometimes it takes days or weeks for something to "click" in your head. Read, re-read, read again. Things DO get easier but it takes time, and time is the secret. Practice helps. It's inspiring what you can do with PW and what keeps me going is knowing this is the best CMS out there. I have researched and tried almost all of them over the years, but nothing compares to PW. I am inspired every day to continue learning and not giving up because it's absolutely worth it. MY breakdown to how I am learning: Take it slow. Break code examples down line by line. Moving on to the next line only after knowing what each before it does. You'll get it! Don't attempt something expecting results the first time. Take pride in humiliation. You can only learn after making mistakes. Read this PW wiki Study Codecademy PHP course along with a couple PHP books. Try to go through every forum completly. Go through each page one by one, bookmarking where you left off. I do this before I go to bed. Before you know it, you'll have read all the forum topics and can know be updated when new threads post. ask questions. I know this can be kinda hard because you don't want to look like an "insert insult", but the truth of the matter is if everyone is afraid to ask then it's hard for newbies like you and I to find answers to basic questions. It's a win win for everyone and the CMS itself. breaking down basic elements of a site one section at a time and searching the forums for how to do it (navigation, multi-level navigation, photo gallery, forms, etc..) You may have to read multiple threads but it's all there. Good luck and don't give up! I can never look back at any other CMS, even during times when I'm frustrated or lost! I only get frustrated with PW because I do not know YET how to proficient. I was frustrated USING other CMS's because of how they were built and I knew their code. Says a lot right there.

Thanks guys. I have learned a lot since this post started. I seem to have a new problem regarding an image's path not referencing. This is a new project so the names have changed a bit, but I didn't want to start a new topic. I am referencing a single image field called column1_image. The image tag is coded below. That should display the image but it's not. <img src="<?php echo $page->column1_image->url; ?>" class="border"> In the site source code, it references the files folder but doesn't display the image name at the end. The image is in the files folder too. <img src="/anything_pw/site/assets/files/1/" class="border"> I really wanted to figure it out on my own since it's probably me doing something wrong, but I either need sleep or am losing brain cells BTW, for other newbies, "anything_pw" is my project's folder name. Thank you.

Where/how do I access the Form Builder forum? Thanks!

I have two jobs and even as 1 has slowed down, I just purchased a dev license because to me it's worth it, and it's supporting PW!! I know using it and PW will make my site building go 10X smoother! Thanks Ryan so much, looking forward to using it. I can't tell you how many times I have had to find form processing scripts and the $$$ I have wasted on scripts which ultimatley broke or failed.