Have you looked at tags? I think a clever use of tags might get you
where you are wanting to go. By the way, very interesting website.
Not sure I understand its navigation very well but who cares about
that. I like the writing, the art, and that it doesn't look like a
template. Good work, I think I'm gonna have start some coffee now.
Steven
On Apr 11, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Erik Ostrom wrote:
I've noticed a lot of my custom coding with Radiant is about defining
relationships between pages that cut across the tree structure. For
example, on http://barefootcoffee.com/, a coffee has one or more
varietals.
From a coffee page, you can go to any of its varietals, and from the
varietal page, to other coffees that have the same varietal. When
they add
or remove a coffee from the site, the associated varietal pages are
updated
automatically.
Likewise, each coffee has several "marks" (organic, fair trade,
etc.), and
one processing method. To implement these, I've created a bunch of
page
types that don't have anything to them besides a class name and an
association, and some admin page fragments that the customer uses to
say
which coffees have which varietals, etc.
I've been thinking about creating a generic extension to manage these
associations. Roughly speaking, customers could define their own
page types
from the admin UI, and which page types can be associated with each
other.
(I don't know yet whether I'd actually try to generate distinct page
classes
and ActiveRecord associations, or just a new page attribute and one
big join
table.) And the extension would automatically generate select boxes
as
needed for the page admin UI.
Does this sound like a good idea to anyone else? Or a bad one? (Is
there a
simpler way that I've been missing?) And before I get started...
has anyone
implemented it already?
--Erik Ostrom
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