Hi all,

I've been slowly retrofitting a site with Couch and things are going very well. The documentation is fantastically clear.

Nonetheless, I do have a couple of dumb questions...

First off : if I'm not logged in to the backend as a super-admin, when I type the site's URL I just get a blank white page. The source code is completely empty. Is this expected behaviour? I would like my client to be able to see the work in progress. I have a redirect at the root which drops the user into a "fr" folder, as French will be the default language (see code below). What have I done wrong?

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<?php require_once( 'couch/cms.php' ); ?>
<cms:template title='Referral' order='16' hidden='1'>
<cms:redirect url='http://test.study-technologies.com/fr/' />
</cms:template>
<?php COUCH::invoke(); ?>

Secondly : it's not very clear to me how my client will be able to add and remove pages. I currently only have one template which is clonable (for the News section). The other templates are all "singles". I'm struggling to understand how my client would go about adding a new page, or indeed removing an existing one.

Whilst the docs are brilliant from a designer/developer's perspective, there doesn't seem to be much documentation explaining things from a client/user's perspective. I will obviously need to teach my client how to use Couch, and it would help immensely if these questions were elucidated.

Thanks for a brilliant CMS!
cheers,
Ric

[trendoman]

2nd question:
Client will be able to do what developer creates for her.
Add-remove pages can be done for clonable templates. For ordinary ones, there is only editing of editables left.

1st question:
Once you actually code some html to reveal your work in progress, it will be displayed on the page. Your redirect code looks valid.

2nd question:
Client will be able to do what developer creates for her.
Add-remove pages can be done for clonable templates. For ordinary ones, there is only editing of editables left.

1st question:
Once you actually code some html to reveal your work in progress, it will be displayed on the page. Your redirect code looks valid.

Thanks Trendoman. For your first reply I had begun to understand that this was the case. However, I'm not sure I understand your second reply. What do you mean by "code some html to reveal your work in progress"?

Thanks!

[trendoman]

You said that source code is empty.
Please, don't expect Couch to do designer's work and create html code out of nowhere. Empty - means there is nothing there, as i assume there are no other bugs in the setup.

If you have something like
<h1><cms:show my_heading /></h1>
And my_heading is a properly set editable, filled with content in admin backend, then it will show itself, won't it?

I assume you realize that already. So, probably, there is something that needs to be corrected in code. Post it here and I help find the problem that prevents your existing html code to show up.

OK, I understand better what you mean now. Much appreciated your taking the time to help out here !

Well, the problem seems to be with the redirect, because if I type the full URL of the page, with "index.php" at the end, it shows up fine :
http://test.study-technologies.com/fr/index.php

However, if I type the URL at the root, which triggers the redirect, then I get a blank page :
http://test.study-technologies.com/

I have changed the code in the redirect to include the full URL, but it makes no difference :

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<?php require_once( 'couch/cms.php' ); ?>
<cms:template title='Redirection' order='16' hidden='1'>
<cms:redirect url='http://test.study-technologies.com/fr/index.php' />
</cms:template>
<?php COUCH::invoke(); ?>

I must confess, I'm a bit stuck.

[cheesypoof]

Move the redirect to outside of the cms:template block. On a phone, apologies for being terse.

[trendoman]

Yeah, that is a something

Brilliant. That did the trick! No worries about the terseness, you were super efficient