Converters, area, length, pressure

(Gab) #1

Morning - I would like to know where to start in my CMS so that I can make the following converters: area, length, pressure, speed, volume and weight. An example I found online is https://www.google.com.au/?gws_rd=ssl#q=length+converter

(Anthony Ponomarenko) #2

Hey Gab,

How are you planning on using these converters on your site? There a many ways you could attempt this. A Standard Page with JS to perform the calculations would work. This could be nested in sections of your site. Setting them up as Snippets could also work.

(Gab) #3

Hi Pono - just the same as the online converter url. Put in a number and it converts on the screen. So a standard page for this is ok?

(Gab) #4

oh and what do you mean by “snippet”

(Anthony Ponomarenko) #5

I would start by creating a Standard Page an build your converter in there.

Once built i would just nest this Standard page into the locations where you want the converters.

Snippets are reusable Content Containers extracted from a Root Node that you set (https://matrix.squiz.net/manuals/content-types/chapters/snippet)

To use Snippets, all the code would need to be within the one Content Container, which may not be best if your code it quite complex and large.

You could also look at creating a Content Container Template (https://matrix.squiz.net/tutorials/2016/how-to-create-a-content-container-template) and then apply the Template to Content Containers where needed.