Hello everyone :)

I'm currently evaluating October for an upcoming project, and I wonder what would be the best/usual approach for things like custom fields/templates?

For example a recipe system which stores several sets of amount+unit+ingredient(+comment) per recipe, including the ability to pull out data from the linked ingredient-pages (e.g. calories/weight).

At the moment i primarily use Processwire, so I am reeeaaally spoiled in this matter (I had the basic system described above implemented in about two hours). However, I like Laravel, and October seems to be pretty awesome when it comes to extensibility - so If someone could tell me that (and maybe how?) this could be done in October, that would be great :)

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Watch these 2 screencasts:

• http://octobercms.com/blog/post/mastering-components
• http://octobercms.com/blog/post/building-a-blog-and-forum

Then, for backend forms/lists, there are some scaffolding generators artisan commands. For frontend forms/lists, its like normal laravel (in that you create your own views with forms... probably with components) and use models for saving/lists/stuff.

Last updated 9 years ago

Hi Stefan,

Did you succeed? Because I want to do the same. Hopefully you can help me with it.

Stefan said:

Hello everyone :)

I'm currently evaluating October for an upcoming project, and I wonder what would be the best/usual approach for things like custom fields/templates?

For example a recipe system which stores several sets of amount+unit+ingredient(+comment) per recipe, including the ability to pull out data from the linked ingredient-pages (e.g. calories/weight).

At the moment i primarily use Processwire, so I am reeeaaally spoiled in this matter (I had the basic system described above implemented in about two hours). However, I like Laravel, and October seems to be pretty awesome when it comes to extensibility - so If someone could tell me that (and maybe how?) this could be done in October, that would be great :)

Hi,

The Basic Concept behind october is a little bit different. In october you need plugins to extend functionality. You can use builder plugin for easy start building plugins. In Static pages plugin you are able to define custom fields in your template and can manage it later in your static pages. but the concept like in processwire is not directly available in ocotber!