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I never used a CMS before. Instead I've coded all the dynamic stuff I've needed, which due to time constraints never does more than it absolutely needs and usually does a little less than it needs to. So far I like phpWCMS better than anything else as it's closer to my own mindset on how to work. Unfortunately there are a few things that are not obvious to me, and before I dig in, a little nudge in the right direction would help (at least tell me if it cant be done...)

The site I'm practicing on is for a small, single screen, art house, movie theatre. Needless to say the film listings are the center piece of the site, and I expect to use one article per film. Here is what I'd lite to see happen:

- the most recent films (3 or 4) listed in the main content section of the top page.

- All upcoming films (8-10) Listed in another section titled (not surprisingly) "Upcoming films"

- All past films appear in a "Past Films" Section

So far I figured that I can either manually sort the films or enter them in order and sort by date/time entered. I can make them dissappear at their closing date, so they drop off the list. Then I can manually move the articles to the Past Films section, and reset their expiration date.

Here are the question marks:

- can an article be made to display in two places? Or will I have to copy by hand to have the current films in two spots?

- the two current films list will never exceed a certain amound, but Past Films will start getting pretty big. Is there a way to paginate the listing, to limit number viewed to 10 or 20 at a time?

- Is there some kind of event-plugin that might aoutomate some of these functions?

- Are there any other thing I should consider here?

I'll proably have more questions as I get deeper into the program, but these are the main things I need to know before I decide wether to go deeper into this.

thanks

Geof

Hi Abruzzi,

here is what I can say about ur expectations:

the most recent films (3 or 4) listed in the main content section of the top page.

Use RT {NEW}

- All upcoming films (8-10) Listed in another section titled (not surprisingly) "Upcoming films"

Use RT {RELATED} keywords

- All past films appear in a "Past Films" Section

So far I figured that I can either manually sort the films or enter them in order and sort by date/time entered. I can make them dissappear at their closing date, so they drop off the list. Then I can manually move the articles to the Past Films section, and reset their expiration date.

Indeed

Here are the question marks:

- can an article be made to display in two places? Or will I have to copy by hand to have the current films in two spots?

Use iframe, or search in forum there have been answers to that (I don't remember them, sorry), I think it is something with content part or redirection (I really don't remember).

- the two current films list will never exceed a certain amound, but Past Films will start getting pretty big. Is there a way to paginate the listing, to limit number viewed to 10 or 20 at a time?
- Is there some kind of event-plugin that might aoutomate some of these functions?

Yes, again search forum (there is a MOD with go to 1-2-3-4...)

Generally, all your questions (I think) have been answered in the forum, use search function
i.e. something like: "page AND listing"

Cheers

Kosse wrote:

the most recent films (3 or 4) listed in the main content section of the top page.

Use RT {NEW}

The main problem is that this shows only the date and title. It seems more to build a list of latest changes. What I'd be looking for is a complete summary view of four oldest articles in a catagory.

Kosse wrote:

Here are the question marks:

- can an article be made to display in two places? Or will I have to copy by hand to have the current films in two spots?

Use iframe, or search in forum there have been answers to that (I don't remember them, sorry), I think it is something with content part or redirection (I really don't remember).

I've searched and not found a solution. In fact, the best I can tell there isn't one at the moment.

Geof