Gallery App or Content Templates?

Okay thats very helpful, just to be clear is this without using the gallery app? It looks like how I did a blog for a client before you brought out the Blog app.

PS: Just want to say Perch is really coming along now. I think the last thing that would really be worth investigating is a small cart inside Perch with a set of default templates as starters.

I know you have the Foxycart option but for those that want to keep customers on site and costs down its not the ideal solution. I have used Opencart for a full blown shop but for smaller sites with only a few items like say a band site its a bit overkill.

PPS: The documentation is getting a lot better so well done for that!

Thanks, which is the best way in your opinion and can both routes make use of Categories?

Are there any sample templates for the listing and detail are these in the quill folder or somewhere else?

Okay thanks for confirming and thanks for links.

Studied the link on portfolio but struggling to work out which templates to put what based on my intended implementation. I read and re-read and think I am struggling with which templates control what.

Any chance you could look at https://dev.marketingalchemy.co.uk/portfolio and the subsequent link it takes you too for the detail page?

I need to figure out what to put in what template and how to get that menu of categories on the listing page.

Have you looked at the test list and detail page?

1. Which template controls which page?
2. To display the Category and Pagination links where do these reside?
3. What do I put in portfolio.php template wise?

Okay let me clarify.

I have an index page portfolio.php, this displays a grid of thumbnails for the portfolio items, there are filter links above to filter by category. Clicking on an item takes you to a detail page.

Currently this is all a static html file just to show the intended layout.

I have experimented a bit on another page https://dev.marketingalchemy.co.uk/portfolio-test however not sure I have it right.

I have this inside my portfolio.php file

<?php
    perch_content_create('Portfolio', array(
      'template'   => 'portfolio_item.html',
      'multiple'    => true,
      'edit-mode' => 'listdetail',
    ));
    ?>

    <?php
    perch_content_custom('Portfolio', array(
      'template' => 'portfolio_listing.html',
    ));
    ?>

Does this look about right?

And how do I add (and inside which template listing or item):

1. Category filters
2. Pagination
3. Link to detail page

I am not expecting you to either. Its just I find it hard finding the relevant info on these functions. While the Portfolio link is useful and I have made some headway, its those 3 things I need pointing to where the info is on the hooks to get this data.

Okay I have made some progress, looking at your docs for pagination it seems to offer the Prev/Next and page 1 of xx, is there a way to just have 1 2 3 4 etc?

Also how do I filter the listing page by category?

Using your two page solution for list/detail https://solutions.grabaperch.com/architecture/two-page-list-and-detail

Works fine.

I have tried the mod rewrite rule to make my current path of portfolio/detail.php?s=xxx clean

RewriteRule ^portfolio/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /portfolio/detail.php?s=$1 [L]

But this does not seem to work, what have I done wrong?

The links stay as portfolio/detail.php?s=xxx

To clarify I have portfolio.php and detail.php using the method explained in your tutorial for separate list/detail pages.It works fine, just cannot get the clean url htaccess to work, yet the same method works for the blog.

Thanks I made the link href="<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" />" and it now works.