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
Related
I want to load all categories grids on one page and want all products to be available on scroll down. currently I need to click on each category and the page refreshes for each category. This is the site I am working on(ahmad.esy.es). I want this type of functionality upon clicking the category(http://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-hertsplaice-en11/menu#2254). kindly suggest me what changes should I make in view files (product.tpl, category.tpl) or controller files(product.php, category.php). how can I load all the grids of categories in one page
I didn't look at the site you have posted above - if you cannot describe your issue by words or by submitting a code or image it should be improved.
From what I understand you just want an infinite scroll to display all the products you have in your eshop. It is not mentioned whether you want to preserve the default functionality (category tree with products attached to certain categories) or whether you want only this one listing - basically it does not matter - so I will describe in short how to add such new functionality.
The model
you do not need to touch any model - you can reuse the method ModelCatalogProduct::getProducts()
this will give you the possibility to sort or filter the products except you will have to omit the filter_category_id to load all the products
The controller
feel free to create a new controller (e.g. ControllerProductInfinite) or just to reuse one of the already existing - either ControllerProductCategory or ControllerProductProduct
all you need is basically the same as in ControllerProductCategory::index() except adding filter_category_id into a array passed when calling ModelCatalogProduct::getProducts() and a new template for rendering
The template
create a new template that will meet your expectations and infinite scroll requirements
stick to any infinite scroll plugin/implementation you like (may Google be with you)
I'm working on an Yii application and I have a particular action that renders a page which is separated in 3 different sections. Let's say that the first section displays items from the database from Class A, the second displays items from Class B and the third from Class C. Each class section is in different div and each section could contain a lot of items.
My goal though is to display only 8 or 10 items per section from the respective class and then provide paginator links to navigate to the rest of the section's items. I have all the items in three different arrays and I can display them with no problems, however, without the pages functionality. In a nut shell, I need to somehow make 3 different paginators work on the same page and I have no idea how reading the yii pagination guides so any tips are more than welcome. Thank you!
I think that you had forget the pageVar in your CPagination.
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.
I'm new to Drupal and have a basic question which I cannot find a good answer to. I am trying to dynamicly determine the contents of my website based on a selection made by the user and keep the selection displayed in the routing for SEO purposes.
It's a website for a Restaurant with multiple franchises.
What i'm trying to do is the following:
The user visits my website and gets a splash screen presented with the available franchises or a textbox to enter his postalcode
Upon selecting he enters the main website with the navigational structure adapted to the selected franchise. For example: domain.com/city/, domain.com/city/menu, domain.com/city/menu/dishes, domain.com/city/contact, ...
The contents of all nodes are based upon the city the user selected. Some franchises have extra nodes which should be displayed in the main navigation aswell.
What I have thought about so far is to try to accomplish this with taxonomy but I really have no idea where to start. Parts of the nodes will be the same for all franchises other parts will be different. Menu item prices will also be different.
This is the first website i'm building using Drupal so any advice is welcome.
Thanks!
It will be impossible to explain it all here but yes it is possible to select your content based on user input in Drupal. You will need to look into Views & Panels.
In Views you can use arguments to narrow to a specific taxonomy. With Panels , an argument can be retrieved fron the URL and passed to the Views in order to display the results.
There are a lot of resources available, Merlin of Chaos, the author of the Views & Panels modules has written a book about it. There are video tutorials online. Your best bet is to start with drupal.org.
I have a website which is up and running on drupal. Its product based website. I developed by creating my own tables and writing php code using php filters. I never used module concepts. Since the site is running well, so i am thinking to move to module concept. so wanted some help here, like how to do it.. i have gone through module development concepts also.
requirement.
1. Admin should be able to create new products like Mobile, Camera.
2. He should be able to define product properties and properties for which user will rate on.
3. Admin/ second admin should be able to create new sub products under products like mobile - nokia 8850 , nokia 9980 where he enters details of product properties also.
4. A listing page for all the sun products under main product. and from listing page we go to to main sub product page where user rates the product.
My confusion : should i create a new table or drupal takes care of all the requirements. and how do i start with it.
update : clear picture of requirement
ex :
1. 1st i add a product "MOBILES"
2. Then i add properties for this main product.
3. Then i start adding sub products under MOBILES i.e nokia 1100, samsumg 2200 and etc.
while adding sub products, in this page it gives me a text box for all the propeties i defined while creating the main product MOBILES . So is this possible using CCK.
You're right to consider using modules and following the "Drupal way". Use CCK + Views and Drupal will take care of the table maintenance and querying for you.
As already mentioned, you will need to get familiar with the CCK module. This module will allow you to create new "content types", which in your example would be the different product types and their attributes. Here is a good overview video on CCK. With CCK you can define new content types and Drupal will create the basic content creation forms for you and hide spare you from all the database details when you're working with it.
The Views module is essentially a query builder and will allow you to create views of your content. There are all sorts of related modules that can help you render your data as charts, grids, lists, slideshows, tables, etc.
There is a slight learning curve but once you get past it you'll be able to build new things pretty quick.
Update: Just another thought, if you are really needing to create some kind of classification system you should look at Taxonomies.
It sounds like you could do all of this with modules, without needing to do any php coding at all. Check out (if you haven't already) cck, views, and fivestar.
In response to your update, sounds like CCK and Node Hierarchy should do everything you need.