Making a baby site

I have a few questions. I’m trying to replace a site that my wife setup while I deployed for my baby. It has a growth chart and a milestones section. Anything in Modx that would allow me to make these? Also a ’born on’ date?

Any help would be appreciated.

More information on this would be helpful. I would think separate documents and Ditto would be the best approach but if you could explain how your output should ideally look.

Cheers,

Jay

Making a baby site

I thought that storks brought baby sites, and that th sites would grow to become adult sites, then they go off to work at either an e-commerce site or get a departmental job at a portal. The toughest phase are the adolescent sites

Anyway, kidding aside, I agree with smashingred that independant documents with custom template variables for all the growth aspects (hight, weight, etc..) and use Ditto to display this as a table or grid.

the site structure would be somethng like this, using the dates of the measurement as the pagetitle.

-Growth Chart
--jan-01-08
--jan-07-08
--jan-14-08
--etc...

As for the birth date and other variables, you can set up as many Template variable as needed to personalize your data.

http://www.modxcms.com/template-variables.html

You could also create a chunk to hold the birthdate. Another option would b be to write a little php script (snippet) using a php date() to get the days old (I actually think there is an example on the php.net site in the date() entry.

Alright I got the ’born on’ date part.
I guess I just need to figure out what I want to do for the Milestones page. I was just wondering if something was already implemented that was close to it. For the growth chart I think i’m going to have to photoshop up a chart.

I saw some Flash charts feed by an xml file on http://www.flashkit.com/ somewhere.
I had a quick play with one before deciding it wasn’t what the client really wanted.
Might be worth a look?

Quote from: 2wistd at Feb 21, 2008, 03:02 PM

Alright I got the ’born on’ date part.
I guess I just need to figure out what I want to do for the Milestones page. I was just wondering if something was already implemented that was close to it. For the growth chart I think i’m going to have to photoshop up a chart.

Why not just create a snippet that checks the value of the last measurement and then use a CSS background image of say 1000px and decide that the container height will be a relationship to the height so 12px = 1 inch or some such and then as the child grows and you update the height it wil grow.

If you want to do a milestone growth chart that may be more tricky but you could do it all with CSS and some images pulling the height from your TV.

--- 29" March 30th


--- 26" Jan 25t

--- 24 Sept 15th

You could have the background as a doorframe or some such and have the lines be images and use "comical sans" as your font.