Create a Structure page with entries list

Question

I have created a Structure page 'Products' with a URL of '/products' so that I can write a description etc, but then I would also like to pull in the Products into the template. I'm a little unsure on how best to achieve this.

The Sections are created as follows;

Page
Handle: page
Type: Structure
URL Format: {slug}
Entry Template: page/_entry

Product
Handle: product
Type: Channel
URL Format: products/{slug}
Entry Template: products/_product

In ExpressionEngine I would have pulled in a Channel entries tag for the page and then another entries tag for the products.

Answer 1

There are a few ways to deal with this, but it really depends on how you have the rest of your sections set up. If the structure is exclusively products with only a single root level item called "products" then I would probably suggest storing content for the products overview page somewhere else. This will greatly simplify your products structure (you could even change it to a 'channel' if there is no other reason for the hierarchy). Where you decide to store the product index/overview info is up to you. You could, for example:

• create a single called "products" (with uri '/products'), or
• add it to the "pages" structure as "products" (with a custom Entry Type "products"), or
• create a template "products/_index.html" with description fields, etc. stored in a global set called "productsDescription" (or whatever you like).

Whichever way you choose the product index page will still be "/products/" and the product detail pages will still be "/products/product-slug/".

If you do decide to place the products overview in the "pages" section, for example, you can just check for the entry type using a conditional or switch statement (within the 'page/_entry.html' template), like so:

{% if entry.type == "products" %}
    {# display products index page template here #}
{% endif %}

However you decide to do it, you can load the actual products like so (as Marion suggested above):

{% for product in craft.entries.section('product') %}
    {{ product.title }}
    ...
{% endfor %}

Answer 2

If your channel is products, you list them like this on their index page (which is presumably your '/products' page)

{% for p in craft.entries.section('products') %}
  {# p is our product. display it however #}
  {{p.title}}
{% endfor %}