Taging and matching content

[Peter Knight]

I'm building a site for a college where they teach approx 20 courses.

 

Each course page will have a:

• tutor
• duration
• price

and I'd like each of these to be clickable tags whch loads a page listing matching courses.

 

So if Prof. Beezlebub is teaching religion, I want web users toclick his name and see a list of his other courses etc

In the PW admin, I want editors to be able to specify what courses contain which tags.

 

Can someone give me a very basic overview of whats involved. I don't see a field type called Tags in the Filed setup.

I also want to make sure that a tag from a Courss will load a list of other courses, but not any matching tags from say, a blog.

 

Many thanks

[Fokke]

You can easily create cross-references to other pages using Page field. It's a very versatile solution to any task like this.

Old but still relevant demo:

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

[Peter Knight]

Cheers Fokke. I'm familiar with the Page field and it's brilliant. I'm not sure that it'd match my tagging requirements though ?

[kongondo]

Cheers Fokke. I'm familiar with the Page field and it's brilliant. I'm not sure that it'd match my tagging requirements though ?

Why not? It's been working for lots of people here. Also using this in Blog. Makes it really easy to search for 'items' tagged by a certain or several words.. 

For examples...search the forums using this GCSE for 'tags'

[Jan Romero]

You can create a template called something like “category” and use that to predefine your tags. Then you use a page field to select from those. You can find pages that reference a specific page via a page field by using a selector such as

$pages->find("categories=$page");

If you put this line in your category-template for example, you would get all pages that reference that category in their page field called “categories”.

Alternatively, you can use a simple text field for tags, then split that up into an array of individual tags and link each to a search page that selects pages by doing a full-text search on the same field.

[reems]

You should certainly check the Processwire demosite aka the skyscraper profile: http://processwire.com/skyscrapers/.

The way you can click there from skyscraper to architect, etc. is in my opinion the same as what you want.

And it can, as Fokke says, be done with pagefields.

The tutor, duration and price are the only "tags" you want, or do you need more real tags?

[kongondo]

....And it can, as Sparrow says, be done with pagefields...

You mean as Fokke says . Sparrow is the OP.

[reems]

Ha Kongondo, you are afcourse right. It's already late here . I shall edit my post. Thanks.