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DataObject as Pages: The Module

24 January 2012 | Aram Balakjian | DataObjects, Model Admin, Controllers, Search

It's been a while since we published the DataObject as Pages series of tutorials, which have proved to be particularly popular. At Aab Web we use those techniques regularly as a way to allow our clients to mange large amounts of flat content or content that is distributed in multiple places throughout a site. Although the final implementations in each project are often varied and bespoke, they all start with the basics outlined in those tutorials, so it made sense for us to build a starting point to work from (and include some more complex features at the same time). That starting point is this module, catchily entitled: DataObject as Pages.

About the Module

Get the Module on Github: DataObjects-as-Pages: The Module

So first things you are probably wondering is 'what can I do with this module'. Well once you have extended the classes in the Module you will have a fully functioning DataObject as Page system with

Features

Basic Versioning, with Stage & Live versions of each Data Object, managed in Model Admin.
Searchable DataObjects, allowing instant implementation into a search dependent site using the DoapSearchForm and Controller.
Fully extendable listing page type, allowing implementation of filtering systems and tags/category models
Easy implementation: Simply extend the 3 classes, add a couple of static values and you are ready to go!
URLSegment based DataObjects with MetaTitle and Description built in.

So without further ado, you can grab the code from the module here: https://github.com/arambalakjian/DataObjects-as-Pages and then follow the instructions below, where we'll first take you through the most basic implementation, then show you how you can extend it to do some really cood things, like we did on www.mymuswell.com, where all the Articles, Places, events and Deals are based on DataObjects.

Basic Setup

Ok, so you probably want to just get going with this so you can have a play around. We'll here are the 3 files you need to create, just like when doing the Part 2 tutorial, only this time without any actual logic!

mysite/code/ProductListingPage.php (Extends DataObjectAsPageHolder

class ProductListingPage extends DataObjectAsPageHolder 
{

}

class ProductListingPage_Controller extends DataObjectAsPageHolder_Controller 
{
	//This needs to know be the Class of the DataObject you want this page to list
	static $item_class = 'Product';
	//Set the sort for the items (defaults to Created DESC)
	static $item_sort = 'Title ASC';
}

mysite/code/Product.php (Extends DataObjectAsPage)

class Product extends DataObjectAsPage 
{
	//The class of the page which will list this DataObject
	static $listing_class = 'ProductListingPage';
	//Class Naming (optional but reccomended)
	static $plural_name = 'Products';
	static $singular_name = 'Product';
}

mysite/code/ProductAdmin.php (extends DataObjectAsPageAdmin)

class ProductAdmin extends DataObjectAsPageAdmin {
   
	public static $managed_models = array(
		'Product'
	);

	static $url_segment = 'products';
	static $menu_title = 'Products';
}

And that's it! You now have a fully functioning, versioned, searchable DataObject as Page implementation! You can now carry on as normal and add all the fields you want to Product, implement your templates (see below) and see where you can take it.

Templates

You will see there are 2 very basic templates provided with the module, DataObjectAsPageHolder.ss and DataObjectAsPageHolder_show.ss. These are just to get you started but should show you how to setup your own. The modules show function makes use of SilverStripes automatic template finder which follows the naming convention [PageClass]_[action].ss. So for this module our [action] is 'show' meaning we just need to add a second template with _show on the end of our standard template for displaying the DataObject detail page.

Following this logic, if we wanted to create a template for our Products in the code above, we would have the following:

themes/mytheme/templates/Layout/ProductListingPage.ss (the page to list all the Products)

<div class="typography">
	
	  	<% include BreadCrumbs %>
		
		<ul>
		<% control Items %>
			<li>
				<h2>$Title</h2>
				<p>$Content.FirstParagraph</p>
				<a href="$Link">View</a>
			</li>
		<% end_control %>
		</ul>
</div>

<% control Items %> is used to cycle through the DataObjects which are being listed on this page. If you check the 'Use Items as children' under the Behavior tab of the Listing Page, the items will also be returned as <% children %>, allowing you to include them in Menu's etc. You can also pass in an arberary limit to Items(), for example <% control Items(5) %> would give you the first 5 products.

themes/mytheme/templates/Layout/ProductListingPage_show.ss (the actual product page)

<div class="typography">

	<div id="Breadcrumbs">
		<p>$Breadcrumbs</p>
	</div>
		
	<% control Item %>
		<h2>$Title</h2>
				
		$Content
	<% end_control %>

</div>

On this page we use <% control Item %> to go into the current DataObject and display it's data, in this case just the default $Title and $Content.

Extending the Listing Page to do Fancy things

The Listing page is really the core of the module. It fetches and displays the relevent DataObjects and it's here that you can start extending in order to gain more control over how those DataObjects are returned by the Items function. We have built the module to allow you to extend the Listing Page functionality without having to re-write the core functions (in most cases). Primrily this section focuses on the functions you can use to manipulate the DO's that are retreived, but in a future tutorial we will look at creating specific functionality such as a URL based filtering system.

Pagination

Pagination is built into the Module, and enabled by default. You can find the options to change the page size and disable it under the Behavior tab of your listing page, along with the switch to return your Items as Children of the listing page.

Manipulating the WHERE

	/*
	 * Overload the SQL WHERE builder
	 */
	public function getItemsWhere() 
	{
		//Use this function to return a custom filter to the Items() function
		return "Date > CURDATE";
	}

By adding a getItemsWhere() function to your ListingPage_Controller, you can manipulate the Where statement that is used when collecting all the DataObjects to list on this page. This allows you to build filtering into your page, dynamically adding extra conditions to the SQL. As a basic example you could return Date > CURRDATE(); if your DataObject had a Date field and you only wanted to show DataObjects where this date was after today.

Manipulating the Sort Order

As well as using the static $item_sort as detailed above, there is also a function which you can use to set the sort more dynamically:

	/*
	 * Overload the Sorting of Items
	 */	
	function getItemsSort()
	{
		return "MyField DESC";
	}

Manipulating the Join

	/*
	 * Overload the Join builder
	 */	
	function getItemsJoin()
	{
		return [JOIN STATEMENT];
	}

Pretty self explanitory, but here you can add a join to the SQL in the Items() function, so if you needed to filter on a related objects field, you could add the filter in the getItemsWhere() function then return the required Join here.

So there you have it, the first release of what will hopefully prove to be a useful module. Obviously it's in it's early days so if anyone has any suggestions as to how to improve it please let us know!

Aram Balakjian

Aram is a web developer running London based agency Aab Web. He has a strong passion for developing attractive, usable sites around the SilverStripe CMS.

Visit Aram's website: www.aabweb.co.uk

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FullWebService
24/01/2012 1:10pm (1 year ago)

Looks intersting and useful. I'll try it out this week.
RoyalPulp
24/01/2012 2:44pm (1 year ago)

Hi Aram,
wonderful, I have been using "Dataobject as a Page" in many projects now and I will test this module next week.

There's one important piece of code that I use in addition, to write the DataObject-Pages into the sitemap.xml:
http://www.silvercart.org/blog/dataobjects-and-googlesitemaps/

Hendrik
Aram Balakjian
24/01/2012 2:50pm (1 year ago)

RoyalPuly - good point. There is already an absoluteLink() function on the DataObjectAsPage class, so you can use the code on silvercart.com to make it work, but it would be much better to have it out the box, so I will look into the best way to do that.

Aram
Xurk
25/01/2012 1:02pm (1 year ago)

Thanks for sharing, this sounds really interesting!

We regularly use the "DataObjects as Pages" method for our websites and the fact that it is now a module not only facilitates the task of implementing it, but (perhaps the best feature) now also includes DataObjects in the search results... very nice.

Recently we gave UncleCheese's RemodelAdmin a shot which is actually the reverse of this - "Pages as DataObjects" comes pretty close to describing it. Great to know that we can now pick one of the two methods depending on what the project calls for, and not loose any functionality of the class we're attempting to mirror :-)
Matty Balaam
27/01/2012 9:43am (1 year ago)

I realise this isn't an issues at the moment and won't be for a while, but I'm guessing this won't be compatible with SS3 as GridField is going to replace DataObjects.

Do you think you'd have plans to update this module at that point? Do you think it will be an easy enough job to do, or a complete rewrite?
Aram Balakjian
27/01/2012 9:47am (1 year ago)

Hi Matty,

As I understand it, Grid Field is going to replace ComplexTableField, so won't effect this module.

However I will need to update it to accomodate the new DataList class which will supercede the DataObjectSet.

I'll do that once I get familiar with the new changes, but I don't expect it to be a hugely complex task :)

Aram
Matty Balaam
27/01/2012 3:03pm (1 year ago)

Ah, brilliant, great to know this module will be future proof, thanks for your clarification.
Richard Rudy
27/01/2012 7:10pm (1 year ago)

Great Stuff Aram, just popped on to look over the tutorial and lo and behold its wrapped and ready to go

Thanks
jakmax
31/01/2012 10:07pm (1 year ago)

Hi Aram,

i create product page and product, it's all ok.
But i need to have comments in all dataobject page.
I add $Pagecomments in my .ss template, but when i save it posts same comment in all pages.. can you help me? my code is post here
http://www.silverstripe.org/dataobjectmanager-module-forum/show/19101
sorry for my english, i'm from italy
thanks
bye, max
MattIn4D
31/01/2012 10:49pm (1 year ago)

Hey Aram, great module!
I'm creatjng a portfolio with it and it seems the pagination controls are missing from the template? Also I would like to see an example of category/tag filtering if anyone could help me there.
Thanks
Aram Balakjian
31/01/2012 10:55pm (1 year ago)

@jakmax - See forum reply, unfortunately not a stright forward task (until we release a module ;).

@Mattin4D - It looks like it's there, line 20 of DataObjectAsPageHolder.ss: https://github.com/arambalakjian/DataObjects-as-Pages/blob/master/templates/Layout/DataObjectAsPageHolder.ss

Aram
MattIn4D
31/01/2012 11:03pm (1 year ago)

ok thanks I should have checked, I downloaded the day you posted this.
Aram Balakjian
31/01/2012 11:04pm (1 year ago)

Ah yea, I have added it since, keep checking back too as I will be continually updating it :)

Aram
jakmax
01/02/2012 8:36am (1 year ago)

Ok Aram,
thank you very much for your reply.
ok so if I understand correctly I have to create a form that records on a database (like UserForm) and pass an hidden field with the ID of the DO and then invoke in the template a query with the comments that have the id of the DO...
Aram Balakjian
01/02/2012 9:11am (1 year ago)

Hi Jakmax,

Yep pretty much, when you pass the ID of the DO, in the submission function, you can relate that comment to that DO using a has_one on the Comment to a has_many on the DO. Then, say your has_many was called 'Comments' then you just call <% control Comments %> in the template and it will return all the comments accociated with that page.

Aram
jakmax
01/02/2012 10:08am (1 year ago)

ok I think I understand ;-)
I'll try tonight and then I can tell you ..
Meanwhile, thank you very much

Jakmax
Bart van Irsel
02/02/2012 8:52pm (1 year ago)

Hi Aram,

Thanks a lot for sharing this at exactly the right moment.
We're going to look into this for our project which can use this tomorrow!

Cheers,

Bart
Aram Balakjian
02/02/2012 9:16pm (1 year ago)

@bart - Great! Let me know how you find it :)

Aram
jakmax
03/02/2012 12:06am (1 year ago)

Hi Aram,
I almost solved, but when I try to pass the hidden field I get the following error:
[Notice] Trying to get property of non-object
my hidden field is:
new HiddenField ('ProductID', 'ProductID', $ this-> getCurrentProduct () -> ID)
where I'm wrong?
Thanks

jakmax
Aram Balakjian
03/02/2012 1:19pm (1 year ago)

@jakmax - ahh yea, you need to wrap it in an if() because when the form submits, it doesnt actually have a URl ID anymore, try this:

if($product = $this->getCurrentProduct)
{
$fields->push(new HiddenField('ProductID','ProductID',$product->ID));
}
jakmax
03/02/2012 2:12pm (1 year ago)

i tried:

$fields = new FieldSet(
new TextField('Nome', 'Nome *'),
new TextareaField('Commento', 'Commento *'),
/*new HiddenField('ProductID','ProductID','88'),*/

new PhpCaptchaField('Captcha','')

);
if($Product = $this->getCurrentProduct())
{
$fields->push(new HiddenField('ProductID','ProductID',$Product->ID));
}

but the value in DB is 0

:-(
jakmax
03/02/2012 2:19pm (1 year ago)

ok great Aram!

i change my code and it's work great!!

function PostComments() {

// Create fields
$Params = Director::urlParams();
$fields = new FieldSet(
new TextField('Nome', 'Nome *'),
new TextareaField('Commento', 'Commento *'),
new HiddenField('ProductID','ProductID',''),

new PhpCaptchaField('Captcha','')

);
if($Product = $this->getCurrentProduct())
{
$fields->push(new HiddenField('ProductID','ProductID',$Product->ID));
}
// Create action
$actions = new FieldSet(
new FormAction('SendComment', 'Invia')
);
jakmax
03/02/2012 2:38pm (1 year ago)

Thank you very much Aram!
Aram Balakjian
03/02/2012 2:40pm (1 year ago)

@ jakmax - no problem! Glad you got it working :)
Todd
04/02/2012 11:35pm (1 year ago)

Aram --

Thanks for the great module. It's an awesome point to build from. (An aside: www.mymuswell.com is a fantastic site. Well done.)

I just noticed that if you try to have a db field in an object with the same name as the object, it breaks the SQL queries the module uses. (I had a Quote object that had an HTML db field called Quote and another field called Author.) Probably a small thing since it's likely not best practice for a field in an object to share the object's name. Changing the field name solved the problem.
Thomas Apfelbacher
09/02/2012 9:42am (1 year ago)

Hi Aram,

thanks again for a nice and useful tutorial.
FYI: The demo login gives an error: [User Warning] Cookie 'alc_enc' can't be set. The site started outputting was content at line 2 in /.../demo_site/local-config.php

Greetings. Pipifix
Aram Balakjian
09/02/2012 9:52am (1 year ago)

Thanks Thomas, that's fixed now :)
Adam Stead
11/02/2012 2:48pm (1 year ago)

This is a great little module, we regularly use DataObjects as pages, now this module will streamline that progress. Hopefully we will be able to contribute more to it as we use it.
Daniel Schweiger
17/02/2012 7:45am (1 year ago)

hi,
thx for sharing this module.

Is it possible to manage the DataObjects from a own tab on the page, not via ModelAdmin?
Matty Balaam
24/02/2012 8:14pm (1 year ago)

I've been playing with this today, but run into a small problem. I can't get the child pages to show in nested navigation, unless I'm actually on the 'holder' page. Is this expected behaviour?
Matty Balaam
29/02/2012 2:15pm (1 year ago)

I've ran into another interesting issue.

As well as only showing the objects as menu items when I'm on a holder page, it I go ahead and extend DataObjectAsPage with a second class, every object for both appears on either holder page.
Thomas Apfelbacher
08/03/2012 9:06pm (1 year ago)

Hi Aram,
thanks again for this plugin. I've got two questions.
1.) Filter DOs by an enumfield

My DOs are persons. Their are categorized by orginisations they work in. (org1…org4). On my PersonListingPage i want to separate the items in different tabholder (Bootstrap UI Tabs). How to filter these items? Do i have to use function getItemsJoin()? And how to declare the JOIN statement?

2.) I receive an error by searching a title of these persons. "....WHERE (MATCH (Title,MetaDescription,Content) AGAINST ('Musik*' IN BOOLEAN MODE)) Column 'Title' in where clause is ambiguous". The whole Sitesearch is broken. Whats wrong?

Thanks, Thomas
Thomas Apfelbacher
12/03/2012 3:11pm (1 year ago)

It' me again.

I'll answer my first question.
The simple solution to this problem is GroupedBy. The code should looks like this.
<ul class="tabs-content">
<% control Items.GroupedBy(Orga) %>
<li class="personCategories">
<ul>
<% if Children %>
<% control Children %>
<li>$Title
<a class="personDetailLink" href="$Link"> see details</a>
</li>
<% end_control %>
<% else %>
There are no persons in this category, yet.
<% end_if %>
</ul>
</li>
<% end_control %>
</ul>
But it seems that unpublished data items will rendered too. i've got no glue whether this is a misbehavior of the doap-module or the <% if Children %> is misinterpreted.

Thomas
Thomas Apfelbacher
27/03/2012 12:34pm (1 year ago)

Sorry, for messing up your comments section. But i want to answer myself for all the folks out there running in the same issue.

Broken Search: I gave the dataobject 'Person' a database column 'Title'. But thats allready used by the dataobjetcs-as-pages class itself. The following attributes are restricted:
'Status', 'URLSegment', 'Title','MetaTitle','MetaDescription' ,'Content'.

Thomas
Richard Rudy
01/04/2012 4:44pm (1 year ago)

Aram, is it possible to embed a DataObjectManager into a DataObjectAsPage? I have a $has_many relation on my DOAP, but once I replace the default TableList with an DOM I can add the DataObjects, but once I try to view them I get and error on ViewableData.php

Warning: "strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given" at line 268 of /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/X/sapphire/core/ViewableData.php
Aled Brown
08/04/2012 7:31pm (1 year ago)

Does this module allow easy translations of the sub pages for multi-lingual websites?
Richard Rudy
15/04/2012 9:15pm (1 year ago)

Just wondering how I'd call a DataObjectAsPage with AJAX, placing the usual if(Director::is_ajax()) and index call in the DataObjectAsPageHolder doesn't seem to work. It renders with the default DataObjectAsPageHolder_show for the Object in question
Aram Balakjian
16/04/2012 10:41am (1 year ago)

Hi Rich,

You will need to use the $this->renderWith(array('MyAjaxTemplate')); call inside if($this->is_ajax()){} so that it doesn't render a complete page.

Aram
Richard Rudy
17/04/2012 12:37am (1 year ago)

Aram, I have the following in the index() of MyDataObjectAsPageHolderPage_Controller:
if(Director::is_ajax()/* || $_GET["ajaxDebug"]*/) {
return $this->renderWith(array('MyDataObjectAsPageHolderPage_ajax'));
} else {
return Array();
}

When I do ?debug_request the template specified in the renderWith() doesn't even show in the array. And if I call $isAjax is ajax in the template it shows 1

Thanks for any direction you can provide
Michael
02/06/2012 1:20pm (12 months ago)

Great module! Im having trouble using the doapsearch though... How would you call the sear on the page? $doapsearchform or?
Do you need to create a page template to receive the results?
Thanks
Richard Rudy
09/06/2012 8:48pm (12 months ago)

Hey Aram, any plans on tweaking this for SS3. I've started slowly chunking away at it removing code that incompatible and trying to convert stuff to the new ORM
Aram Balakjian
18/06/2012 7:05pm (11 months ago)

Hi Richard, I will definitely look to update the module once I find some time, most likely it will be when we start using SS3 at Aab Web for production projects and need the module ourselves.

Aram
Tate
19/09/2012 1:15am (8 months ago)

How does this scale to SS3
AntonyJay
20/09/2012 1:52am (8 months ago)

Hi Aram,

I've just started playing around with this and got it working successfully with a modified CsvBulkLoader, however I need to be able to clear down existing DataObjects and publish the new CSV DataObjects on upload.

Any ideas on how I can do that?

Antony
graham
26/09/2012 9:23pm (8 months ago)

Hi Aram,

Great module with a lot of potential.

Does anyone have advice on creating a controller that will work on a second page type. My specific intent is to display a small number of the most recent entries on the home page in addition to the listing page described.

Any pointers appreciated!

Graham
Aram Balakjian
27/09/2012 4:19pm (8 months ago)

Hi Graham,

This is very simple, as all DataObjectAsPage items are still DataObjects at heart so you can simply something like this in a function in HomePage_Controller:

return DataObject::get('MyDataObjectClass', Null, 'Created DESC', Null, 5);

Hope that helps

Aram
graham
30/09/2012 7:40pm (8 months ago)

Thanks Aram!

I knew it was something like that and I did eventually figure it out just before I checked in again.

As a newcomer, it's really helpful having so many people willing to give a few moments to offer pointers/advice. I hope to do the same once I become more familiar with things.

Much appreciated!

Graham
webspilka
10/12/2012 2:37pm (6 months ago)

I have next error
[Notice] Undefined variable: table
in code
$results = $itemClass::get()->where($filter);
60
61 if($joins)
62 {
63 foreach($joins as $type => $join)
64 {
65 if($results->hasMethod($type))
66 {
67 $results = $results->$type($table, $join);
68 }
69 }
70 }

which defines the table property?
Stefdv
17/12/2012 10:01am (5 months ago)

Hello, this module is great, but ...

Any change somebody can shine a light on the ajax output ?
I have no idea where to put the

if($this->is_ajax()){
$this->renderWith(array('Ajaxtemplate'));
}

And what would be the structure of Ajaxtemplate.ss .
Micschk
03/01/2013 10:19am (5 months ago)

Hi Aram, this module's really awesome! We've just launched a site which uses it quite extensively.

Just one weird thing, curious to hear if others have noticed; when in dev mode, if I save a record for the firs time (aka create a new item), my browser crashes (Chrome uses 100% CPU). Firefox just presents me with a empty page.

I can see the form being posted though, and Firefox receiving an ajax response from the server containing the updated form. When in live mode, all seems to be working just fine. Sounds like a js loop (maybe entwine missing a class or so in dev mode?).<

When I reload the page, the form has actually been saved and I can publish/save draft etc normally. Any ideas?
Aram Balakjian
03/01/2013 12:17pm (5 months ago)

Hi Micschk, normally this happens when you have a bug in onBeforeWrite or onAfterWrite. Do you have any code in here that could be causing problems or does that happen on a fresh install of the module too?
Micschk
03/01/2013 12:44pm (5 months ago)

Nothing in onBefore/AfterWrite. I'll have to try the fresh install to see what happens, will post back here. Thanks!
Micschk
06/01/2013 8:56am (5 months ago)

Hey Aram, made a fresh ss 3.0.3 install, added DOAP: no crashing. Enabled versioning on the DO: crashes.

It only crashes on initial saving of a NEW item (at which point I only have the 'save' button, not the versioning 'save & publish' etc, which show up AFTER initial save)

I'll try and debug further, will post back on Github.
kBits
09/01/2013 2:07am (5 months ago)

Hi this looks like a great module but I am having a little trouble installing it on a server running PHP 5.3.3 and SilverStripe 3.0.3. The installation seems to go smoothly, but afterword when I try to edit or create a new page in the admin it just hangs and I get no editor. After I remove the module, I am back to normal. Any ideas? Thanks!
kBits
09/01/2013 5:33pm (5 months ago)

Cancel the above comment, my fault I had a typo in TWO of the page types. That will teach me to work without my coffee. The module is installed and working GREAT, thank you for this AWESOME module :0)
kBits
09/01/2013 8:41pm (5 months ago)

I was wondering if you could comment on how to implement categories, as in the tutorial where you build the product catalog?
kBits
25/01/2013 11:28pm (4 months ago)

OK i have figured out implementing categories, but it seems that the BreadCrumbs are a little backwards if you view the product when your Product Listing Page is underneath another page....it goes like this:
ProductCat >> ProductCatParent >> ProductViewPage

I can't for the life of me figure out what is happening in the BreadCrumbs function, but shouldn't it read:
ProductCatParent >> ProductCat >> ProductViewPage

How to fix?
Gaudino
08/02/2013 9:20am (4 months ago)

Hi, this module is very usefull, thanks:-)

How can I except "/show/" from URL? I want to do cleaner URL for my clients.

I think I need to use $url_handlers variable, but I dont know how.

Thank you for advice.
pinkp
19/05/2013 10:18pm (6 days ago)

Can I just ask, am I doing something wrong?
I've downloaded the module from Github link, added it to root folder. Create the 3 files as in the tutorial. Run Dev Build, and then there is nothing different in the CMS?
Your log in example is for 2.4.. It says for SS3 on Github but I don't get any changes in the CMS?
Aram Balakjian
20/05/2013 4:11pm (6 days ago)

Hi Pinkp,

Which branch are you using on Github/which version of SS? I have just updated the master branch to work with SS3.1 and created a branch for 3.0.

You should be using a Model Admin interface to manage the objects, so you should see an extra menu item down the left hand side, whatever you titled your ModelAdmin.

Cheers,

Aram
pinkp
22/05/2013 10:21am (4 days ago)

Hi Aram, thank so much for the reply.
I have just looked and re downloaded version 3 from your branch. Added it to a fresh install of SS3.0.5, created the 3 files in MySite/Code. Done my dev/build and see it add tables then nothing in the CMS admin area. :(
Aram Balakjian
22/05/2013 10:37am (4 days ago)

Hi Pinkp,

Is there no new model admin section?

Aram
pinkp
22/05/2013 11:32am (4 days ago)

no, and I've installed FlexSlider module from GitHub just now and that shows up in the section. thanks
Aram Balakjian
22/05/2013 11:34am (4 days ago)

ok I'll take a look.

Thanks for reporting it.

Aram
Aram Balakjian
22/05/2013 12:02pm (4 days ago)

Hi Pinkp,

Using the 3.0 branch of SS and the 3.0 branch of the module, I created the 3 files as above and I get a 'Products' model admin tab in the left menu.

I'm not sure what the problem is, but I don't seem to be able to reproduce it.

Aram
pinkp
22/05/2013 12:31pm (4 days ago)

Hi Aram,

I have not literally downloaded a fresh copy of SS3.05, fresh copy of the branch 3.0 version of DOAP. Installed the CMS, added the files from the tutorial. DEV/BUILD.

and nothing.

Installed using MAMP, had a magic_quotes warning.. nothing else to report.

What on earth can I be doing wrong!?
pinkp
22/05/2013 12:31pm (4 days ago)

*now, sorry.
pinkp
22/05/2013 12:35pm (4 days ago)

OK major embarrassment!!!

I copied and pasted your page codes with out syntax highlighting... I missed

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from the top of each file! sorry if i wasted your time! at least you know there is not a bug with your code! just me!
Aram Balakjian
22/05/2013 12:36pm (4 days ago)

lol, no worries we've all done it :)

Glad it's working, enjoy the module!

Aram