I am currently on a project which develops Wordpress - Like website using Angular 6 front-end and PHP 7 and MySQL back-end. All we need to do is, we have different posts on different categories and show them in the website urls like these.
www.sample.com/news/news-1
www.sample.com/category1/post1
www.sample.com/category2/post2
But our post pages must be identical besides of any of articles or category types and, for that reason, we created a mother component called template-component. But the place we got stuck is when routing. All we need to achieve is to make different routes to our pages like upper urls, but keeping our template. Your help or advice are much valuable. (All categories are dynamically generated and can be create/delete or upgrade anytime)
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I am to develop a Joomla 3.1 Template. The template should consist of a static header and footer, as well as multiple pages, all of which need their own styling. Further, the client would like to be able to add 'events' to a specific listings page. Customers should be able to book said events via a simple form.
Thanks to some really basic guides, I have the header and footer down, as well as some simple template options. However, I am now running into some problems;
How would I approach the content section? Ideally, a page would consist of multiple, editable sections. The client would be able to edit said sections in the backend without having to deal with or accidentally changing the layout or styling of the page itself. Since there are multiple pages, I obviously need different views/containers for each of them. Is this possible and if so, how?
Another problem is the documentation, which I found to be very lacking. Even google only got me so far (basic structure, index.php, templateDetails.xml and so forth). Are there any other resources I may have missed or do I really need to refer to other templates (most of which, obviously, aren't free) and use var_dump all the time?
Writing this, I just realized that I could theoretically build a template for every single page but ... that surely can't be right, right?
If someone could provide a basic outline or at least tell me how you personally would tackle a project like this, it'd be very much appreciated.
All the best
Edit;
I just found some video tutorials but since my bandwidth is limited, I cannot watch them. Please take this into account when writing an answer. Thanks.
I have only one word for you :
GANTRY :D
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Joomla revolves around menu items that point to components. For each menu item, you can assign modules to different positions within the template to create a unique page. You only need one template if you really understand how Joomla templating works.
Joomla has very good documentation here - http://docs.joomla.org/
Few things to remember -
Component - this is a type of content or app of sorts. A component will define what content is and how it is displayed. This can be anything from blog articles and categories to an event registration system to a message board or social network. Menu items generally will point to a view in a component.
Modules - these are used to display additional content around the component output. This can be a menu, or a login box, or a weather widget or anything else you can come up with. Modules can be assigned to or excluded from the various menu items on your site.
Plugin - plugins are used to change the final output on a site. They can be used to insert Youtube videos, or forms within content, or even to alter the meta tags on a page.
Understanding how extensions work is an important first step. Once you get how those work, learning how templates and template overrides work will give you most of what you need to know to build a basic Joomla site.
I want to develop a joomla 2.5 porfolio extension.
So I need something in the backend to enter a couple of details.
On my frontpage I want to have listed the six latest projects and there will be a page in the frontend where all projects are listed.
I'm new to this whole joomla thing. At the moment I'm reading through the joomla docs and tutorials.
I'm a little bit confused because I'm not really sure which type of extension do I need.
Can all this be done with a single component or a module or do I have to mix both?
Because what I've understood so far a component can just be displayed as a independent page.
And a module has to be included in a page. Like {lastSixProjects}?
Can some please enlighten me a little bit?
If you want to create a page with portofolio only, you may create a component without a module...
If you want to put your portofolio in eg.: articles pages, search page, in a sidebar etc (like a image slideshow plugin) you must create a module (with a component assigned to it)
Please read this: http://docs.joomla.org/Extension_types_%28general_definitions%29 .
I undestrand that you want to put your portofolio in your front page... in this chase you MUST create a module.
Little explanation:
A module is an extension (similary to boxes, or widgets) that are arranged arround a component (in this chase com_content - on your FrontPage). Eg: Ads Module, Search Box Module etc.
A component is a super complex extension (similary to mini applications). It has an administration part and front-end part. All Joomla! pages loads a component. Eg: Content component, Search component etc.
I hope this will help you.
You want a component. Please read this: http://docs.joomla.org/Extension_types_%28general_definitions%29
Agree on 2 previous answers, you need a component with at least one table to store your projects. Then you need to link to a menu a view of the elements on a table. You should be able to make it work in 15 minutes with this component creator for Joomla http://www.component-creator.com/
This is a very newbie question so bear with me. I'm starting to use Yii as my first PHP framework and so far so good, the project on wich I'm learning is a simple informative webpage, but how am I supposed to handle the subpage concept under Yii? This is what I'm trying to achieve:
Home
Products
Product 1
Product 2
Contact
I have a controller for Home, Products and Contact, now I know that Yii doesn't work with subcontrollers, then how do I create a Product 1 and 2 subpages? Just a different view for each one? Through Gii? Many thanks.
You could do one of two things
You could have a generic product page that accepts a parameter to distinguish between different products (common approach). For example,
www.mysite.com/products?id=1 would show Product1's page whereas www.mysite.com/products?id=2 would show Product2's page (and if there is no id parameter in the query string, then you could just show your Product page)
And you could also have separate methods for each page. So you would have
actionProduct
actionProduct1
actionProduct2
methods in your Product controller and then you could reach your pages as
www.mysite.com/product
www.mysite.com/product1
www.mysite.com/product2
I'm trying to decide which method would be best for an internal linking structure that utilizes 4 main categories, and then pages within those categories using WordPress.
At first I thought I could just use Posts as a method of determining whether or not content belonged within that category... but now I'm second guessing myself. The site structure is like this:
High-level nab:
Category 1
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Category 2
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Category 3
etc
Category 4
etc
Obviously, this is a custom theme. But before I start coding, I want to make sure that I'm storing, pulling and organizing the data properly.
What are you thoughts? Greatly appreciated!
Wordpress is actually designed to be a blog, not a pure CMS. If you do not use the blog function, I suggest trying another 'real' CMS (Joomla, Drupal, TYPO3, many many others).
But to answer your question, why did you reconsider ? It would make it easier to know why your are second guessing...
If you want to accomplish this with the given categories from wordpress, you can use a category to page plugin like this one here. But there are also some CMS plugins for WP that make wordpress to a proper cms and can help you grouping pages - see the plugin resource.
What is the best method, if there is one, of using Wordpress as a CMS for users to input data while not actually building the website on the Wordpress platform?
One possible solution I've found is using a PHP class called "WPGet" (http://peter.upfold.org.uk/projects/wpget) which fetches directly from the database.
You could use Wordpress' API calls, but depending where your "custom built application" sits, it might require including numerous files in your code (not very fun/efficient)
I have a site that requires constant updating. It's a golf club site: results, news etc all updated via wordpress by the club, or individuals with interest (juniors, ladies, seniors each have a mini-site) - and not always by me - so i have a front end, the standard site with static .php pages, which i then feed data to, by calling on posts marked in categories from wordpress, relevent to the site's page. The coding is easy and it's a quick and simple way of using wordpress as a cms, but it does strip away most of the Wordprss functionality, eg. comments, But I even use it for galleries with lightbox.
Like i say - it's nothing major, but sounds similar to what you're asking...?