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Categorising
10 August 2009 at 1:14am
Is it possible for me to categorize sub pages within the cms?
To make things more specific, I have a client page I'm working on. Now these clients have to be categorized so I will have <b>Clients > Client category > Client</b>. This is pretty simple so far and works great but here is where it gets tricky. On my homepage I have a featured client which is randomized. This works great except, as you can see I have created a page for each client category, and because this is a child of 'Clients' it also shows up in the results.
My question really is this:
a. Can I somehow make each client category page unique so I can exclude this from my results in the sql?
b. Is there another approach for categorizing content that I may not be aware of?
Regards
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Re: Categorising
10 August 2009 at 6:57am Last edited: 10 August 2009 6:58am
Hi Harley,
I think you need to delve into complex relationships between data objects (5th tutorial).
If you create 1-to-many or many-to-many relationship between categories and clients, you could build a simpler to maintain web structure where, for example, you could create unique pages for every client where their categorie(s) data could be shown and a categories holder page with Category children displaying automatically corresponding clients, without requiring the creation of a Client subpage for every Category.
Sorry about my English,
Juan -
Re: Categorising
10 August 2009 at 10:04am
You could just create a simple 'ClientPage' class, and use that:
class ClientPage extends Page {
static $db = array();}
class ClientPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {
}
Now, in your page class you can do:
// not particularly efficient method to select a ClientPage at random:
function RandomClient() {
$clients = DataObject::get('ClientPage');
return $clients->getOffset(rand(1, $clients->Count()));
}Since 'ClientPage' behaves in the same way as a 'Page', you can add them where ever you like and the RandomClient method will pick it up.
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Re: Categorising
10 August 2009 at 11:16pm
Thanks for your feedback Juanitou,
The thing is, I need a seperate page for each client, each client will also have access to this page so they can themselves edit it. It's almost like a profile.
Would it be possible to have a client holder, and then a category holder, then client page? Essentially two holders, one inside the other and then the client page?
If I could somehow make the category page unique then that would be easier for me to manipulate.
As I say it works great for me at the moment, but it is just the part on the homepage which has a featured client, by default it includes the category page as well which I don't want to happen.
Regards
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