OK, this gives me a lot to get going with!  Should take me a while.

As a first step, I'm looking at the below with a coder's eye and have added
where I think I see what it's doing. This without looking at much
documentation yet to fully understand the syntax.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:01, The Editor <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 1) Create a page called action.storeitem with content like this:
>
> [if equal {p1} item] > if the first element of the page name is "item".
> [form]
> name: [text title "{:title}"] > "title" is the field on this page,
> ":title" is the infovar, which populates the field here.
> price: [text price "{:price}"] > ditto.
> size: [text size "{:size}"] > ditto.
> categories: [text categories "{info.categories::{p}}"] > I can't figure
> this one out.
> description:
> [box content][(source {p})][box] > gets the description from the page
> content.
> [submit] > button.
> [session savedata name,price,size] > saves the three fields as info vars.
> [session edit {=content}] > sets the page text to the value of the content
> box, so it shows when viewing page.
> [session info "field={p} value='{=categories}' target=info.categories"] >
> this is the other half of the bit I don't get.
> [form]
> [else]
> <(search group=item template=[[{+p}&action=storeitem|{+:name}]])> > lists
> valid pages to run storeitem against if this isn't one.
> [if]
>
> 2) Put this on item.footer:
>
> [if admin][[{p}&action=storeitem|EDIT]][if] > put storeitem action on page
> for admins.
>
> To create a new item, just create a blank page item.1231231
>
> > 2) How to deal with multiple categories?
>
> 3) Put this on categories.header (or footer).
>
> [(search group=item if="inlist {p2} {info.categories::{+p}}"
> template="title")] > searches item.* pages using that syntax I don't get
> again. Looks for second part of page name (category name) in each
> item.page's categories.
>
> This will generate a list of all the pages that have the category.
> Note your categories should be saved as a csv list, if there are more
> than one, like
> cars,clothes,food. You will also want to create a custom template
> based on how you want to display the pages.  You will want to also
>
> 4) Create a blank page for each category (categories.car,
> categories.clothes).  To generate a list of all available categories,
> just do [(search group=categories)]
>

So there's predominantly one bit I don't get:

info.cateogories in three of the lines above, plus the other syntax used
around it.

-- 
Allister

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