Can someone help me with my site structure? Sections/Category setup

Question

Thank you for your time and patience I'm a newbie to the Craft world. I've been all over the Craft Documentation and this site trying to figure out the best approach for a site I am putting together. The prototype I did makes sense however when it came time to put it into Craft I'm hesitant or lacking confidence in the setup. I just need a sound board to bounce off my setup.

Current Section setup:

• Home (Single)
• Company (Single)
• Products (Single and Structure with multiple entry types)
  • Product Category A
    • Type A
      • Size A
      • Size B
    • Type B
    • Type C
  • Product Category B
    • Product
  • Product Category C
    • Type D
    • Type E
• Support (Single)
• Contact (Single)

How would I best create a template structure for the products section? How can I setup categories to help create this structure?

URL would ideally be site.com/products/product-category/product

or do I even need products? Just jump to the product-category?

I want to have a category page, comparison page (Size) and dedicated product page. The category page with the type category wouldn't need an intermediate page.

Answer 1

It's fairly straight forward. You could go with a single "layout" file and then a template file for each unique template that utilizes that simple header/footer layout

• templates/layouts/_layout.html
• templates/index.html (homepage)
• templates/products.html
• templates/support.html
• templates/contact.html

Extending a layout:

{% extends "layouts/_layout" %}

Your product template would then just need to be coded to handle the category handle in the URL.

For instance, listing entries (products) that are assigned to a category (untested):

{# get categorySlug from URL segment 2 #}
{% set category = craft.request.getSegment(2) %}

{# get instance of category #}
{% set category = craft.categories.slug('categorySlug') %}

{# get entries related to the category instance #}
{% set entries = craft.entries.relatedTo(category) %}

{# loop through the entries #}
{% for entry in entries %}
    <a href="{{ entry.url }}">{{ entry.title }}</a>
{% endfor %}

That's obviously just an example, but should get you going in the right direction.

Related reading material:

• https://craftcms.com/docs/templating/craft.request#getSegments