what's the menu/page creation process?

[ROUBOS]

Ok
So the idea is to create a Section-->Category-->Content.
So what is the process?
I have created a section "books" and linked it to a menu item i have created, and it shows under that menu.

Now that I want a Category "fiction" to appear under the Section "books" once its clicked, and the content to appear on the page like small articles. What is the process?

I mean how do we make the Category to appear under the Section like a tree? And who is the content then inserted and linked to the Category and appear on the screen?

Sorry noob here...
if anyone knows of tutorials with step by step guides to setting up a simple site would be nice

[Farhad Sakhaei]

These are different structures of menu items tree that I recomment :

- Table - Content Section 1
   |
    - Table - Content Category 1-1
    - Table - Content Category 1-2
    - Table - Content Category 1-3
    - ...
- Table - Content Section 2
   |
    - Table - Content Category 2-1
    - Table - Content Category 2-2
    - Table - Content Category 2-3
    - ...
- ...
==================================================
- Table - Content Section 1
   |
    - Blog - Content Category 1-1
    - Blog - Content Category 1-2
    - Blog - Content Category 1-3
    - ...
- Table - Content Section 2
   |
    - Blog - Content Category 2-1
    - Blog - Content Category 2-2
    - Blog - Content Category 2-3
    - ...
- ...

You can include a description for any sections , categories too

[ROUBOS]

OK,
so how do we go about creating that?
Define the section.... then a category which we link to the section (there is the blog or table option)?
then a content item which we link to the category
??

EDIT >>> I must be doing something wrong. Ok I create a Section, then a Category, then a content item which is linked to the category

when i click on the section, then the category does not appear on the menu even though i got it as a child.

Any link I click on on the frontpage opens a Not Found page. Is that normal? Even the default Elxis links...

[Farhad Sakhaei]

check your contents , menu items language and publish status

[ROUBOS]

what does System>Global Checkin do?

[Farhad Sakhaei]

You can use help icon to get help and review the system 

[ROUBOS]

OK I kind of gave up on the live server someone else put up...
So got Lampp installed on my local machine running Ubuntu 8.10

Installed Elxis as per the books i bought. "ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΗ WEB SITES ΜΕ ΤΟ Elxis CMS"

installed fine and works.

So now i start customizing the site.
when i try to access the MAIN MENU Items, I get the following error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 41 bytes) in /opt/lampp/htdocs/elxis2008/includes/domit/xml_domit_lite_parser.php on line 189



EDIT>>> These Elxis people running any crash courses I could attend.?
Feel like giving up on this. I really want to learn Elxis... maybe its the long day and its getting late....

[Farhad Sakhaei]

I recommend you to use XAMPP : http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
So you will see that you won't have any problem on local too

[ROUBOS]

yeah I used XAMPP ... just called LAMPP under linux

[ROUBOS]

now getting this error and I cannot work on menu no more.. just as everything was working fine:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 39 bytes) in /opt/lampp/htdocs/elxis2008/includes/domit/xml_domit_lite_parser.php on line 895


 :'( :'(

[Ivan Trebješanin]

In php.ini set memory limit to 32MB...

PS
by (very outdated) default it's 8MB

EDIT: don't forget to restart apache afterwards...

[ROUBOS]

OK thanks, found it in /opt/lampp/etc

changed it and now it works.

thanks you very much... it always good to wake up with a solution to the problem from the night before