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[justnew77]

Hi,

I am justnew77 and just new to processwire. I came from MODx so I am actualy not new to CMS.

I can not join my template to the default startsite. How do I di that?

Or how do I create a NEW startsite with my own template?

Greetings from Germany!

[diogo]

Welcome to PW!

You need to elaborate your question a bit more so we can help you. Did you read the documentation or any of the tutorials?

http://processwire.com/api/

http://processwire.com/api/tutorials/development-getting-started/

[pwired]

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[Martijn Geerts]

In MODX you've to setup a whole lotta stuff. With tons of different settings depending on the state of the other. You need an infinitly large brain to know what you're doing.

Play around here, you'll be settled within no time. Welcome to ProcessWire.

[justnew77]

Thank you all for the links. I think they could help me.

I read the "getting started" tutorial but I still can't figure out what I wrote in my first psoting:

I got the start site next to the Icon with the Little house. When i create a new page it is UNDER the start site.

The start site contains the demo site an demo template with ist not changeable.

So how can I Change this?

[Philipp]

Your're looking at the page tree of ProcessWire. It represents the structure you also see on the page itself. As you mentioned, the first Page (/) with the house icon is the start site. You can't delete this page, because everything within PW is a child of this (even the admin pages itself).

In the default installation, this page has the template "home". You could change this but you don't have to (and also it will cause trouble with permissions...).

In the PW admin, go to Setup->Templates to change the fields of the home template. Open Setup->Fields to edit or add new fields you want to use in the home template. We can find the template file for home under the template directory in the PW installation path: /site/templates/home.php . Open it and you will see the markup for the start page. As in the tutorials, you can change everything here and build your own customized start page.

Basically, you just overwrite the default home template with your own fields and templatefile.

You could try to just download the blank profile  and instead of installing a fresh PW, just replace the content of the site/templates folder. After that, you can delete all example pages from the admin and customize the home template.

[justnew77]

Ok thanks. I renamed my template-file to home.php and this works fine.

[justnew77]

Hi,

i want to render out a navigation menu!

I got 3 pages: Start/Home, About and Contact.

I installed the MarkupSimpleNavigation modul and tryed this:

<?php
$treeMenu = $modules->get("MarkupSimpleNavigation"); 
echo $treeMenu->render(); 
?>

But it lists only 2 pages. The home/start page ist not in the list. Why?

BTW:
How can I say the Module what css class he should use

[Martijn Geerts]

look at the documentation

Look at the forum thread

[diogo]

From the documentation of the module https://github.com/somatonic/MarkupSimpleNavigation#markupsimplenavigation-116

$options = array(

    'parent_class' => 'parent',
    // overwrite class name for current parent levels

    'current_class' => 'current',
    // overwrite current class

    'has_children_class' => 'has_children',
    // overwrite class name for entries with children

Those are the options that let you modify classes, check all the other options also. They are many

[justnew77]

Ok now it shows the "root page" correctly. But he did not add the class to the LI

I do it so:

$treeMenu = $modules->get("MarkupSimpleNavigation"); 
		
$options = array(
'parent_class' => 'menu',
'current_class' => 'active',
'show_root' => true
);
echo $treeMenu->render($options); 

But it renders out like so:

<ul>
<li><a href="/dev/">Home</a></li>
...

Without a class Parameter for the parents. (Current class do work)

[justnew77]

Ok, i got it:

This goes with the Parameter

 

'outer_tpl' => '<ul id="menu">||</ul>', 

[Manfred62]

There's no need for a module. Take a look in the example code of the default PW installation.

If you only need a simple list:

<ul id="menu">
<?php		
	$homepage = $pages->get("/"); 
	$children = $homepage->children;
	$children->prepend($homepage); 
		
	foreach($children as $child) {
		$class = $child === $page->rootParent ? " class='active'" : '';
		echo "<li><a$class href='{$child->url}'>{$child->title}</a></li>";
	}

?>
</ul>

[justnew77]

Hm, ok thanks for the Information. I will just Play around with that.