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Okay, so I set my cms up, thanks to your guys wonderfull help, and now im lost. What im doing is making a gaming site


http://www.themaraudersmap.com

Thats the site, now I need a way for my staff to be able to review games and have them added to the site. SO thats why I downloaded and installed this cms. Im not quite sure what I have to do from now on. I Already went to the Article section and made categories

Games
-New Realeases
-Action
-Adventure
-Xbox Live Reviews
-Action
-Adventure
-Previews
-Action
-Adventure
-Demos
-Action
-Adventure
Hardware
-New Realeases
-Controllers
-Internet Connectivity


thats the basic set-up, Im pretty sure I have that right. Now I DID do a test version of a review, and the layout of it is really crappy, you can take a look here.

http://www.themaraudersmap.com/contentm ... ,3,0,0,1,0

now, as you can see the text is not what I want, and I dont want that big red random box


Also, I have no clue how to incorperate this with my site, any help?

Any help would be appreciated, I searched the forums and couldent find anything like this by the way, thanks for everything.

thecore wrote:I Already went to the Article section and made categories

That isn´t the right way.
Have you create a template {RIGHT}{LEFT}{CONTENT} and so on?
IF yes, at this point you should creating a Sitestructure.
e.g.
root
- Games
--- New Realeases
--- Action
--- Adventure
--- .......

- Hardware
--- New Realeases
--- Controllers
--- .....

Please Read the Docu!! http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=15,0,0,1,0,0
http://iolaire.net/phpwcms/Manual.html
After doing this, you create articles and contentparts.

I don´t see a red box??

Gruß Knut

Those tags are not for within an article. Template, instead, as fli-flop states.

Your page has two sets of HTML openeing and closing tags, as a result.

You also have some visible PHP code showing on the page (so it must not be entered in the right type of "content part" or is not enclosed in the tags, properly.

Sorry, I did read the docs but im lost. I have worked with every type of forum, news system, and image system, and have never had this much trouble figuring it out.

Right now what I did was

Take my code source from my index, and made it into a template...all of it went under the header, as I thought It wouldve been easier, now that I look at it...I dont think Im right....ive been overthinking how to work this for the last 20 hours, and I think I figured it out

1.Split my layout, put the left nav under left...right nav uder right, banner and stuff under header and my bottom stuff(copyright junk) under footer...now I think thats right BUT

Now I(as you can see by my layout)want to make it so that people will post reviews, by catagory that is...so when you clicked on "reviews" link you would see a list of the catagorys, you would click the catagory you would want, and it would be set up by latest reviews to the older ones or by alphabetical, doesnt matter.

Then under "new releases" I would have the 20 most receint review showing, so I want the info to pull out of reviews and be updated automatically when a new review is added and be put under the new releases section....I read every document possible and tutorials as well, and I am totally lost, any help would really be appreciated. Im not trying to piss people off. I extensively searched before I posted, and nothing that I found helped. I really hope someone can help me and It is HIGHLY appreciated.

Thank you for everything guys.3



EDIT : Also, I just messed with it a bit, did the template thing I was trying(right nav=right) and all worked a bit better, BUT...now the text wont show up from the article!...I have it completely writen, everythings fine except the article isnt showing, just the layout

http://www.themaraudersmap.com/wtf.jpg

Okay, well I worked for an extra hour and fixed everything except two things...

1.The title of the review is aligned to the left, how can I align it to the center, css maybe?

2.For my "recent reviews" page, how can I gather data from all of the "game" subcatagories, and pull up the top 20 new games?

If you are unsure but what I mean by number 2...

I have my thing set up like this

Games
-New Releases
-New Release Page
-Reviews
-FPS
-Sports
-Etc.
-Etc.

I want to pull the top 20 most newest files from the reviews and have them in new release page, and everytime a new review is set, I want it to automatically pull the link into the new release page...I know it can be done, just not sure how...


I see the link article, but thats manually, is there anyway it can be done automatically or no?