Peter Knight

Thanks Soma

I hadn't seen your reply earlier.

it doesn't work for me but once again, it's my lack of php skills here showing. I guess I'm used to tags and Wayfinder and MODX doing all the hardwork for me.

Martijn

Thankyou - I have downloaded the pedigree profile and am looking at the .inc

Unfortunately, it's way beyond my level of PHP understanding. Although I have a sense of what it's doing, I couldn't confidently tweak it to my own requirements.

Mainly I'd like to combine this 

<div class="row">
<ul class='topnav'>
		<?php foreach ($pages->get(1)->Top_Navigation->find() as $topnav){echo "
        <li><a href='{$topnav->url}'>{$topnav->title}</li>
		";
	} ?>
</ul>
</div>

with MarkupSimpleNavigation but I cam not sure how to pass $topnav array to MarkupSimpleNavigation or vice versa.

Sure, since you can define the rootPage: 

I guess what I meant was slightly different?

I made a simple top navigation bar on my site. It's a global navigation bar beside the logo.

But I'm restricting the pages that appear here to 6 or 7 pages which my client chooses via the page fieldtype (called "Top_Navigation".

<div class="row">
<ul class='topnav'>
	<?php foreach ($pages->get(1)->Top_Navigation->find() as $topnav){echo "
        <li><a href='{$topnav->url}'>{$topnav->title}</li>
		";
	} ?>
</ul>
</div>

I was wondering how I could combine the above with 

	<?php 
	$treeMenu = $modules->get("MarkupSimpleNavigation"); // load the module
	echo $treeMenu->render(); // render default menu
	?>

allowing me to inject some classes into my list etc and specify active classes etc etc.

I presume this navigation module can be combined with the page fieldtype?

https://processwire.com/videos/page-fieldtype/

IE My client could pick and choose a bunch of pages they want to appear in a top navigation bar?

I have this working now with the three columns I want  .

I basically select the three pages from a page field on the homepage called "Featured_Content". Each of those pages has a title, image and summary.

<div class="layer layer-is-featured">
      <div class="row">
      
<?php foreach ($pages->get(1)->Featured_Content->find('limit=3') as $featured){echo "
        <div class='small-12 medium-4 columns'>
           <img src={$featured->images->first()->url} />
           <h3 class='feature-heading'>{$featured->title}</h3>
             {$featured->summary}
             <a href='#'>Read more</a>
        </div>
";} ?>
      </div>
</div>

foreach($page->images as $image) {
 $large = $image->width(500); 
 $thumb = $image->size(100, 100); 
 echo "<a href='$large->url'><img src='$thumb->url'></a>";
}

Hi uprightbass360

That would be very helpful. I've no plans to allow any more than 3 but would be very interested to see some example code.

I presume it uses PHP if/else statements ?

Actually, I think I just found the answer to my questions apart from number 2

1. Retain the "Add New" button on the top right of my Admin screen with just "Add new blog post" appearing.

I found some Access settings for the Blog template and this enabled this.

2. Restrict her view of the site tree to just the Blog and child pages

No idea how to do this

3. All her to edit any pages under the blog parent

Access setting for that particular template.

Hi guys

I have a tiny PW site with a blog and want to give my client admin access create and edit her own posts, moderate comments etc.

I've already set her up as a User, assigned her a role of "blog-author" with permissions of:

• View pages
• Edit pages
• View Blog page
• User can update profile/password

However, when I log in as her I am wondering how I could achieve following within the admin IE Not hard-coding or PHP-ing? 

1. Retain the "Add New" button on the top right of my Admin screen with just "Add new blog post" appearing.

2. Restrict her view of the site tree to just the Blog and child pages

3. All her to edit any pages under the blog parent

Particularly confused as to why no. 3 is not working as her role of "blog-author" has "edit-pages" ticked. 

Nico 

Youre right of course - I could always use a very long template name.

I just tried your example and wierdly enough, when I hit submit PW tried to create a separate template for every word in the template title.

So not I have templates called

a

automatically

Gallery

generate

template

this

to

use

-

Wierd !

When creating or adding a new template I'd like a short template description field.

That template description should then also be visible when choosing a template for a page.

If you've a lot of templates, it gives editors some asseurance that the template they are selecting is the correct one.

Cheers. Looks pretty comprehensive and I've got the printer working it's way through it.

Could you point me in the direction of how to output fields from my selected pages?

I've created a page field, added it to my template and then on my actual page, I have selected my 3 pages. That was all remarkably straighforward. But how do I get the field values I want out onto a different page?

foreach ($page->pattern_type as $pt) {
echo $pt->title;
echo $pt->featured-image;
echo $pt->featured-summary;
} 

Thanks diogo

There's just too many ways to do this in PW. Guess thats the beauty of it!

1. Add a "featured" checkbox to each page and show the last 3: $pages->find('featured=1, sort=-date, limit=3');   

That would certainly work. Would my client be able to reorder the sequence of featured items though? They could be from very disparate areas of the site.

2. Add a page field in the homepage where your client can add pages, and show the top 3 from that field.

Thank you for introudcing me to the page field! I hadn't seen it before and watching this, I can't believe how simple and powerful it will be for my client.

I've purchased ProFields anyway but I'm sure I'll find a use for it

Hi 

I have an area on every page of my site which includes 3 columns of "featured" content as determined by my client.

Each feature consists of:

• A page title (and link to parent page)
• An image
• Small paragraph of summary text

I know that I must add these fields to my pages and then populate them with content. The part i'm stuck at is how best to let client my determine which 3 pages get featured. I think number 3 here is the best way but wanted to ask more seasoned users their approach.

Should I ...

1. Create some mechanism for a client to specify a page as "featured" thereby triggering inclusion into a footer. I'd have some API call scanning pages for a checked "featured" checkbox etc

or

2. Create 3 small sub-pages elsewhere on the site consisting solely of the title,image,paragraph fields. I could place them in some kind of sub-folder called "featured". My client would be told to only ever have 3 sub pages and they could edit, rearrange etc

or

3. Create a single page called "Featured" consistign of the new ProField Table whereby client can order and reorder as they wish. That ProField Table would be a row consisting of "Title", "Image" and "Summary".

Love Phillips work on the theme with the split tree/editing

Having used Silverstripe and MODX, split screen editing is much better IMHO.

As a new comer to PW, I appreciate that there's a simplicity in displaying only the tree but I'd love to see this as an option. 

Guys - thanks for all your help. 

I did a reboot of MAMP, rebooted my Mac and did a fresh install of PW and it's working now.

Appreciate all the help though.

I always set up virtual hosts for every project or test install i do. This way the default .htaccess has never failed me and it saves headaches when deploying to live domains.  

What are the benefits of a virtual host when developing locally? And whats the difference between running on MAMP or some localhost?

Are you developing on Windows?

What LAMP server are you using?

I do all my development locally. I have at least five separate ProcessWire installations on my Windows 7 desktop.

MAMP 3.05 running on Mac OSX Mavericks

Might fire up the other Mac and see if I have the same issue and try one of the Windows machines too.

My mistake - I *can* edit the htaccess file and have uncommented the appropriate line

RewriteBase /

So right now I am getting the error as follows. 

• Not Found
  The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.

I presume there should be an index.php file in the root of /processwire ?

Cheers adrian. Understood. I've reverted the folder name back to the original name.

Re the URL you supplied, I can confirm that mod_rewrite is working. Unfortunately I can't make any htaccess chaneges this is a local install. 

Thanks for the help. I'll perform a remote install.

I think you are mixing things up.  The PW directories are /site and /wire.   The /processwire url in the setup script is for admin access purposes.  They are not the same thing.

Ok, fair enough - thanks for clarifying.

Same issue though. Installation says I should visit /processwire/ to access the admin but browsing to this gives me a 404 on a local install.

I did a reinstall with a new database and left the Admin Login URL on the setup screen as "processwire".

After successful installation, I was given the new URL of /processwire/

Looking at my local files, the default folder called "wire" is still "wire" so I'm not suprised to get a 404 error.

Renaming that folder to "processwire" throws the original "forbidden" error.

I think I'll just install remotely for the moment or try the stable branch 

No joy. I located the appropriate the table and indeed it was set to "wire" but changing it to "processwire" or "admin" has no result when I used that new directory within the URL.

Thanks anyway

Interesting bu the admin url is by "wire" by default when I unzip the latest gihub build

Hi guys

I'm attempting to install PW locally for the first time.

I've created and connected to the database but when I visit my admin/manager URL, I get the following error

http://localhost:8888/procewsswire-test/wire/

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /processwire-test/wire/ on this server.

The actual demo site is showing fine with the minimal site profile. This is a download from the dev branch of github.

Just wondering is it a folders permission? I don't think I can CHMOD locally?

Cheers for the reply and apologies re the framework mixup.

I guess I'm approaching this with a few expectations picked up from my other blogging platform. Within that, almost every part of the blog was a mini template which you could tweak to make fundamental layout changes.

Brilliant, thanks

Hmm. I think I see whats happening. Youre basically saying "for each page that uses blog-post as a template, output X".
 
I just realised my output isn't creating a new row for each blog post so I modified it to be as follows.

<!-- START Nested Column containing featureimage and post-summary --> <?php $blogposts = $pages->find("template=blog-post"); foreach ($pages->find("template=blog-post") as $b) {
 
echo "
  <div class='row'>
    <div class='small-12 large-6 columns'><img src={$b->blog_images->first()->url} /></div>
    <div class='small-12 large-6 columns'><p>{$b->title}</p><p>{$b->blog_summary}</p></div>
  </div>
";
} ?>

                <!-- END Nested Column containing featureimage and post-summary -->