How to build a news page - forum tutorial

[Alex]

Hi,

I am starting to play around with Processwire, I am looking at the news page example forum post here:

http://processwire.com/talk/index.php/topic,442.0/prev_next,prev.html#new

which talks about creating individual news story pages then displaying them on a news index page.

Mine is not working yet, i have literally cut and paste what was in the above forum post...

I created a news_story.php and news_index.php

just using the basic example site templates

Can someone point me in the right direction how to display the news stories on the news index page? Would be much appreciated to get me started on processwire basics.

Here is a link to the live pages:

http://www.hoof.net.au/pwire/news-page/

the code is here:

news_story.php

<?php 

/**
* News Story
*
*/

include("./head.inc"); 
?>

<h1><?=$page->title?></h1>
<div id='bodycopy'>
    <?=$page->body?>
</div>

<?php 
include("./foot.inc");

news_index.php

<?php 
include("./head.inc"); 
?>

<h1><?=$page->title?></h1>
<?php

// start the news stories list
echo "<ul>";

// get the stories for this page
$stories = $page->children("limit=4, sort=-date"); 

// note if you set the stories to sort by date descending on the /news/ page
// in the admin, then you can omit the "sort=-date" above. 

// cycle through each story and print it in a <li>
foreach($stories as $story) {
    echo "
        <li><a href='{$story->url}'>{$story->title}</a> 
        <p><strong>Date:</strong> {$story->date}</p> 
        {$story->body}
        </li>
        ";      
}

echo "</ul>";

// get values for our placemarker headline
$start = $stories->getStart(); 
$end = $start + count($stories);  
$total = $stories->getTotal(); 
$num = $input->pageNum; 
$lastNum =  ceil($total / $stories->getLimit());

// output the placemarker headline
echo "<h4>Showing $start - $end of $total Article/s | Page $num of $lastNum</h4>"; 
           
// output pagination links
echo $stories->renderPager();

include("./foot.inc");

Regards,

Alex

[Pete]

Can I just ask - did you create te news story itself UNDER the news index page? Looking the navigation on your page it looks like they're at the same level as a child story shouldn't be displaying there.

If its not under the index page, go to the Pw admin and click on your news index page to open up the options, then click on your story, click Move and drag it so it's under the index page (it'll become indented).

[Alex]

Hi Pete,

Thanks - yes worked straight away! Thanks, I think i am on my way now, loving it so far.

I added a date field in the Setup area and changed my news_story.php so it displays that date:

<?php 

/**
* News Story
*
*/

include("./head.inc"); 
?>

<h1><?=$page->title?></h1>
<p><strong>Date: </strong><?=$page->date?></p>
<div id='bodycopy'>
    <?=$page->body?>
</div>

<?php 
include("./foot.inc");