ModX and Foxycart - setting up pages..

Sorry if this has been covered elewhere, but I cant find it. (I’m also pretty new to modx, so forgive me if I use the wrong terms..)

While my team is developing the frontend, I want to get started and start to input items into the backend.

I have my document tree set up with the product categories as main menu items like so:

Home
Jackets
Accessories
Boots

How do I start to make pages for the items in the shop?

Do I make a child page under jackets for men’s and women’s jackets? and the actual jackets as items that are children to those?

So:

Home
Jackets
Mens Jackets
Jacket 1
Jacket 2
Jacket 3
Womens Jackets
Jacket 1
Jacket 2
Jacket 3
Accesories
Mens Accys
item 1
item 2
item 3
Womens Accys
item 1
item 2
item 3

Thanks in advance. ad

That’ll work.

I’d be inclined to have the "mens" etc be a TV and use filtering for the display, this way you’ll easily be able to let your visitors look for mens or womens products in general.

i guess i have to figure out what a TV is now....

Ok... sorry! Your idea will work just fine, just won’t be as flexible.

so.. what is a TV (I assume its not what i watch Lost on.....)

http://sottwell.com/how-template-variables-work.html

so you would use the TVs for things like Size?

I’m trying to get my head around using modx for a store.

Does anyone have a tutorial?

TVs are really (arguably) the single most important piece of MODx to fully comprehend. In a nutshell, they’re basically like the "document objects" (pagetitle, longtitle, content, publish date, etc.) except they can be almost _anything_.

You can use a TV for a file upload field, an image upload, a select box, checkboxes, radio buttons, date/time, etc. So when you’re setting up a store you usually have something like Sizes and Colors or Styles or something.

So you’d create a TV for Sizes, and set the possible values to whatever sizes you have for that particular template type (like S||M||L||XL||XXL maybe). You’d have another TV maybe of checkboxes for available colors.

You’d DEFINITELY want to use an image TV for the main product image, and maybe have a few other image TVs for alternate images. That’d be the easiest way to get started I think.

Greetings atracksler,

I’m going to be putting together video tutorials explaining how to integrate Foxy Cart into MODx to make your site and ecommerce site. This is the first tutorial...I hope to producing many more in the coming weeks.

http://my619.com/foxy-cart-modx-tutorial-1