Jørn Wildt

Hey guys I have been playing with pagesetter and it looks really good. I am trying to figure out if I can recreate the reviews section of postnuke with pagesetter. Utimately I want to have the reveiws section but with a lot more questions and customize the results.

Can I do this with pagesetter?

Can I have category folders and underneath the last 10 page submissions and then next to it the last 10 top voted submissions and make each submission commentable?

Thanks

[Edited on 29/9/2004 by rixride]

[Edited on 29/9/2004 by rixride]

Yes...

ohh.... and the answer to the second question is yes... but I dont know about the voting...


[Edited on 29/9/2004 by GreenJelly]

Thanks Green Jelly, the more I am using it the more it is making sense.

Do you know where I could look at some example configurations of specialized set up of pagesetter. Not just news but other things like Lists and directories etc... Is there a site that utilizes that. I have seen what comes in the Manual but I would like to see what else pagesetter can do.

Thanks

Keep us posted rix,

I'm looking to do the same thing. I want to set it up for album reviews with image submissions through photoshare. But I have yet to understand quite what is happening with smartys and the templates.

What would be nice is the ability to have Sub-Publications. That way you can have the main pub all catagorized and such, then the visitors to the site ccould give personal reviews on the item including a rating(possibly have math munctions that can be done on the sub-pubs and be called up from the main pub so that you can get an average ratting). This could also be used as a comments type adition to any pub type so that you could have as much or as little info asked of the user.

Take Care,
Michael

Ferret... thats talked about here.

http://www.elfisk.dk/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=1435

as far as other things pagesetter can do...

Check out my
Knowledge base (Pay close attention to the articles, some of them are references to other pagesetter publications)
http://www.crayhillsolutions.com/module-pagesetter-main-tid-4.html

Credit Card Providers
http://www.crayhillsolutions.com/module-pagesetter-main-tid-6.html

Main page
http://www.crayhillsolutions.com/

Thats it for my site now.



[Edited on 31/10/2004 by GreenJelly]

That discussion sounds exactly like what I was thinking about. That outline sounded almost like you have acomplished this, is that true?

Also, how did you get it to refer to other publication types from within the list?

Take Care,
Michael

Outline?

I am for a loss!

Check out my shared sections on my website...
http://www.crayhillsolutions.com/Downloads-index-req-viewdownload-cid-1.html

I used SMARTY logic, and it works really good...

I got to create a XML template for it still, but for now it works GREAT! I can refer anything I want, including other websites:) The really cool feature is that I can link to Windows Docs, and because all the text fields still exist (though they are not shown) I can use them to insert search data. For example, I can cut and paste the contents of a Word document in it, without worring about the format, then include the URL... users will get the Word Document when they view it, but it will still be search able...

I am getting really good at making this tool do things that no one thought off. I have got this thing going well into areas J0rn never thought off.

I am really looking to get more into the development of this application.... I just finished a Selector replacement, that keeps compatibility, but also has functionality to help manage state.

I would like to make pagesetter use pnRender instead of its own copy of SMARTY... I would also like to tie into Xanthia SMARTY tags.. I think if we can have blocks within the Pagesetter templates, that this might be another aproach to handling the nested publication issues.

One of the problems with the current pagesetter, that is causing me some headache is the lack of instance within pagesetter. It would be nice if I could seperate a single publication into multiple instances.

Again, this comes down to a lack of plug-ins to the XML form template system (Guppy).

Maybe I dont know it yet though.


[Edited on 11/11/2004 by GreenJelly]

[Edited on 11/11/2004 by GreenJelly]

PG has used pnRender ever since version 2.0!

Is there a Reviews "template" available somewhere yet?

Yeah, I am not sharing it but I will sell it to you...

j/k, ;)
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Referencing previous postnuke GPL post.
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No, I never made time to create this. I hadn't really started to figure out pagesetter until recently. After this post 09/04, I kinda gave up on it for a while. But I knew it could do what I needed, I just needed to pass that learning curve. Which I am starting to get now.

lol, yeah, i know what you mean about the learning curve. Im trying to learn things myself. I still really have no idea what guppy really is and how to use it. I think modifying the PN-News template might be able to give us the results that we want. I think Im going to just try and make a replica of the Reviews module and then just let people make their changes from there. I do wish that customizing the pubedit areas was just as easy as customizing the display templates.