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Basically am wondering is if there is a way to use magento as an actual cms system.

i.e. i have an html chunk (static block?!) with some parameters (page_image, pagetitle)

<div class="thumb">
    <img src="[page_image]" />
    <p>[pagetitle]</p>
</div>

I would like to loop through a set of cms pages, and print a thumbnail section with that information.

I am a complete newbie to magento, and i cant figure this out with just the basics i learned through the tutorials xd.

What am actually asking are a few points:

  1. How can i create custom fields for specific cms-pages?
  2. How can i loop through those specific cms-pages and print a thumbnail sort of view

links to tutorials are much appreciated!

Thank you for your patience!

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To create custom fields for Magento CMS page section, you can follow below links
https://www.atwix.com/magento/adding-custom-attribute-to-a-cms-page/
https://magento.stackexchange.com/a/53094/2443

To display CMS pages as thumbnail view, you can use below code.

$cmsPages = Mage::getModel('cms/page')->getCollection();
foreach ($cmsPages as $cmsPage){
     echo $cmsPage->getTitle();
     .. GET AND DISPLAY YOUR REQUIRED DETAILS ..
}

Edited:

To loop through the specific cms Pages, You can use addFieldToFilter for filtering. like,

Mage::getModel('cms/page')->getCollection()>addFieldToFilter‌​('YOUR_FIELD_NAME', 'YOUR_FILTER_VALUE')

reference

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  • Thanks! I will try it and let you know. Can i somehow filter my cms-pages i want to show in that Mage::getModel('cms/page')->getCollection(); ?
    – hahaha
    Feb 4, 2017 at 15:13
  • You can use addFieldToFilter for filtering. like, Mage::getModel('cms/page')->getCollection()>addFieldToFilter(''YOUR_FIELD_NAME', 'YOUR_FILTER_VALUE') reference seanbreeden.com/stackoverflow-magento-addfieldtofilter Feb 4, 2017 at 15:27
  • sorry to ask so many questions, but am a complete newbie! Where do i put the code with the foreach loop you gave me? i will create a layout for the page i want the thumbs to be in, and put it there?
    – hahaha
    Feb 4, 2017 at 15:33
  • Yes, exactly, you have to put it in your phtml file where you are going to add your page's html code. Feb 4, 2017 at 15:38
  • hey man i did everything in the atwix tutorial and although i get the new field to show on the cms page, the value is not stored! I dont know what i missed, if you have some previous experience with some details i might have missed please let me know, i did this tutorial 3 times!
    – hahaha
    Feb 16, 2017 at 10:39

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