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Hi all,

I’m new to EE2, and I have to create a new website for my client.
We dont’ understand how to setup the “tree” of the site related to url and templates:

we have a section called wear (channel “wear”),
and under this other subsections called summer-man, winter-man, summer-woman, winter-woman (channels?).
These 4 sub sections has another template, what I wish to know is if We can do only one template (called “wear-collections” 4 example) or we must create one template for each (summer-man, winter-man ecc…).
Under each of these subsections there are categories for various family wear (and a new design, so another template): D&G, Armani, Valentino ecc…, and under these other sub-categories like shirt, skirt ecc…, then the entry.

I wish to have finally these url:

http://www.domain.com/wear
http://www.domain.com/wear/summer-man
http://www.domain.com/wearsummer-man/armani
http://www.domain.com/wearsummer-man/armani/shirt
http://www.domain.com/wearsummer-man/armani/shirt/article

What’s the best configuration for do that?

Thanks a lot.

Hi - welcome to EE!

EE works a bit differently than CMS’s that have you design a tree structure as a starting point.  You can actually organize your content storage separately from your presentation - including how it flushes out to the site through a URL structure.

Read this:
http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/general/urls.html

Then these tutorials are a great “get your feet wet” exercise. They were written for EE 1 but the principles still apply - and I’ve posted a guide to translating to EE2.

Then maybe run through this series covering a complete site build

Finally this screencast talks specifically about approaches to setting up the back-end architecture.

One way to store the content in EE would to be to setup a single channel called “Products”. Then create custom fields for properties of that product, such as size, color, description, and brand. Use categories for the hierarchy tree, with men and women at the top; for example Men → Pants → Casual and Women → Skirt → Denim. Alternatively, if you have a lot of products that change every season, you could use multiple channels—one for each season year—assigning the same field and category groups to those channels.

This setup gives you a fair amount of flexibility for products that belong to multiple categories, such as unisex items.

Your templates do the rest for the presentation, including showing items by categories and brands, and setting up URL structures. Boyink!‘s links should help you with a better understanding of how the templates pull the content from EE.

Ok we’re working on and now the situation is this:

channel › man-summer
categories › Armani, D&G ecc…
entry › T-Shirt 1, T-shirt 2 ecc…

The problem now is this:
in the last step we have the title, img, description of the product, but we have to attach the other colors version,
T-shirt 1 red, t-shirt 1 blue, ecc… The t-shirt red will have 2 or 3 kind of photos, front, rear ecc… We will use jquery to display in front end in the same page.

We don’t want to publish an entry for the color version because there’s no text related, it’s only images.
We wish to have one and only entry for the product and other multiple images related.

Can You help us? thanks.

Hi Quamm,

Personally I’d handle this with the matrix add-on http://pixelandtonic.com/matrix, but that costs $55.
It lets you associate rows of associated data with one entry - so you could have columns for color and image.

Alternatively, if you know there will be a max number of colours per product, you could just have extra fields to your weblog to accommodate that max, but that’s more clunky.

Or you could probably handle this via related entries - see http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/related_entries.html, but I know you said you want everything in one entry.

There’s probably other options as well which I’m sure others will be happy to share.

With Matrix we think all works.
thanks a lot.

We have another problem now,
we publish all the entry of the catalogue,
but now the man section don’t works.
The situation is this:

channel › man-summer › Armani › entries
channel › woman-summer › Armani › entries (most recent entries and categories)

the man page now don’t publish the items.

the code is this:

{exp:channel:entries  channel="man-summer"  category="{segment_3_category_id}"   sort="asc" }
  {if count == 1}
  <div class="tool">
  {/if}
      <div class="family-box"><div class="img-family-prod">{foto-prodotto}/img/resize.php?url={foto-prodotto-1}&size=250x295{/foto-prodotto}</div><div class="tit-family-prod"><a href="http://{title_permalink={segment_1}/{segment_2}/{segment_3}}">{title}</a></div></div>
    {if count == 3 || count == 6 || count == 9 || count == 12 || count == 15 || count == 18 || count == 21 || count == 24 || count == 27 || count == 30 || count == 33 || count == 36}
     </div><div class="tool">
    {/if}
    {if count == total_results}
    </div>
      {/if}
  {/exp:channel:entries}

The problem is that we have the same name for two different categories, so the segment 3 have the same key.
http://www.mysite.com/collection/man-summer/Armani/
http://www.mysite.com/collection/woman-summer/Armani/

When we call {segment_3_category_id} EE publish the most recent category, not wich is in the right channel, in our case EE publish the Woman Armani category in the man page.

What we have to do?
thanks a lot