[TYPO3] website structure / menu

Timo Proescholdt proescho-typo3 at informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Tue Sep 4 23:34:37 CEST 2007


Hello!

first of all hi everybody!
I have been playing around with typo3 for some time, but
it's the first time I contact the community! I hope to
be learning a lot from you but also being able to contribute
something.. In any case I have to say that I, although it's not
that shiny than other players, already love it!

Well.. to the facts.

I'm in the process of building a bigger typo3 powered website
and would like to ask for some advice regarding the principal
layout.

The website provides information about cities.
There is an entry page A which lets the user select a city,
then there are pages B,C,D.. which hold information about the
respective city and have all the same layout.

My question is how to best built up the site structure so as to
minimize redundancy. Obviously page A needs a template and so
do B,C,D. (all the same).

So what I was thinking was a structure like this

          -> B
         /
root -> A -> C
         \
          -> D

with root having the common template for B,C,D and
A an extra import.
But my problem is that that way A inherits the template
from root. On the other hand A has to be the father of
B,C,D since it has to list its children..

I'm sure there is a way out of this, like having A extra
and letting it generate a menu of non children, but I could
not find out how to do that.

thanks for any help!
Timo Proescholdt



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