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Thanks for answers. So I understand, from both of you, I should have a specific template and not an universal basic-page one. It's fine. However I'm still unable to display all categories and all links on the page. $links = $pages->find("template=links"); foreach($links as $l) { $content .= "<li><a href='{$l->url}'>{$l->title}</a></li>"; //fine for displaying categories but missing the repeater. // echo $l->render(); doesn't work, copy all the page (including header, etc..) } So how I get all children but also their own children ? How I could refer to the repeater (which have already his template) ? It's probably something about the each() @blynx mentions. However I have no idea what to do with it and couldn't find any examples in the forum. Sorry for my ignorance. Mel

Hi I read tons of posts/tutorials about categories and variations on the same subject. However, I think there is something I don't understand or just use a wrong design. Does someone could kindly explain where is my problem? Directory (basic-page template) -- Category (links template) --- Link 1 (repeater) I have no problem to output the content of the repeater on his own page of category. However, my problem is to list everything on the directory page. I suppose I can do a $page->find("template=links") but it make no sense to add that on a general basic-page template. Or do I should have a specific template for the parent page? Or some kind of function I can reuse? (I have the exact same problem for my gallery page with a category and their children) Thanks. Mel Links template $content .= $page->render('links'); /Fields/links function renderLinks($page) { foreach($page->links as $link) { echo "<h2><a href='{$link->http_link}'>{$link->title}</a></h2>"; echo "<p>{$link->summary}</p>"; echo "<p><a href='{$link->one_image->url}'><img src='{$link->one_image->url}' alt='{$link->one_image->description}' ></a></p>"; } } $content = renderLinks($page);

Hi Still on my quest to build my website. Since now I know how to basically display fields, I'm now at a design' step. I know I can do, what, and how, I want using PW, but there is so many possibilities! Could you help to choose the more efficient technique and/or point me pro and cons of each of them? My page is a classic team page Team Some text Director 1 (photo+text) Director 2 (photo+text) Other members ~35 photos separated in differents categories (photo, name and position title) Some text Method 1 : a page for each section. Pictures uploaded in one field, as described here. Using photo tags to create the different sections and description for name and position. Method 2: each person is a page. A field "category" will be added to displayed them correctly. Method 3 : repeater but I'm not sure yet how it works and his advantage or inconvenient. I have 35 photos to upload for now (one time upload, after I will add/modify only 2-3 by year). I was thinking using a module to batch Import via CSV to create pages (which seems to speed up with method 2) (However, I don't know if it's working for images). On the other hand, method 1 is also easy for uploading pictures in 1 click. However, adding description in batch seems more complicated and less easy to maintain (more clicks to see them). Also, subsidary question. If I want to re-use some pictures in an other webpage, is it easier to reuse from this page or just reupload and recreate a child page in an other page? Do I miss something? Thanks Melanie

Oh wow, thanks so much. I put in practice those new knowledge! (but probably come back later with more complicated stuff... ;-)

Hi, So, first question... To learn how to use PW, I tried to build a really basic news system. So I created a news template with 4 fields - title, date, summary, image. Done. After, as I was not sure I started from basic-page.php and tried to modify by using HTML from my old website. After many trials and errors, I succeed to display something. <?php namespace ProcessWire; $content = "<article><h2>" . $page->body . "</h2> <header class='news-meta'> <strong>Date : </strong> " . $page->get("publish_date") . " </header> <div class='news-content-text'> <p>". $page->get("summary") . "</p> </div> <div class='article'> text </div> " . "<p><img src='" . $image->url."' alt='". $image->description . "' ></p> </article>"; //image doesn't work!! // If the page has children, then render navigation to them under the body. // See the _func.php for the renderNav example function. if($page->hasChildren) { $content .= renderNav($page->children); } // if the rootParent (section) page has more than 1 child, then render // section navigation in the sidebar (see _func.php for renderNavTree). if($page->rootParent->hasChildren > 1) { $sidebar = renderNavTree($page->rootParent, 3); // make any sidebar text appear after navigation $sidebar .= $page->sidebar; } So my questions : I don't like it, way too much concatenation and I'm lost between " and '. How I should do that? Why this template is not similar to main.php with a part in php and one in html? In fact, my problem is that I'm not sure how to mix them Why page->body doesn't throw all fields of the template? More specifically, what is it? I can't find it in the cheatsheet... Why basic-template.php have an open <? php but any closing bracket? Thanks!! Mélanie

Thanks for your answers. I decided to give a shot and try version 3. To be honest, I don't really know what is namespace and what to do with it but since I start from scratch, it may be better to go with the future stable version. I don't think I will really need modules other than the core so it shouldn’t be a problem. Next step is now finding my design...

Hi, I'm in process to convert my existing website to another CMS. After extensive searches and trying tons of demo, I found this one. I played the demo and also create a local install. It seems great, and will probably fit my needs, mostly because of the built-in multilingual support. I currently tried the 2.7.2 version but I was wondering if I should start developing on the beta version? Is it to a level enough stable or I should go with something more stable but without the new functionnalities? I expect to work for the next weeks (maybe all the summer) on my website, since I have to learn, build the skeleton and I have a lot of content to transfer. Thanks Mélanie