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Hello everyone,

I wonder if it’s worth using Symphony CMS for a website with a great number of similar pages on same templates with a low number of variables like <KEYWORD> or <CITY>?

Here’s an example of what I’m looking for: http://www.matchmaker.com/mm/dating/alberta-kirriemuir.htm

I’ll have to create some thousands of these pages.

The system will have to grab a text from separate .txt file.

Can Symphony be adjusted for this purpose?

Hi Vladimir, welcome to Symphony!

You can definitely use Symphony for this purpose.

I don´t know how often you will have to update the locations through the seperate .txt file. It will not be very hard once you convert the contents of the txt file to XML. You can use the XML importer extension to import the variables into a Symphony section. With that information in the system, you can e.g. generate a list of URL’s based on the province/city. Once the page is visited, it can be created on the fly with your city name and keywords provided for that city. You can use the CacheLite extension to cache the result of the page if it is a static page.

Furthermore, you can use the Geo Location Service extension to redirect people to their nearest city if you aren’t doing this already. Might be a bit out of scope, just thinking along with you ;)

Good luck!

OMG, dating service on the Symphony CMS. It’s looks like a popularity.

I think it’s impossible with “out of the box” Symphony, but it could be with some custom additions. The point is, at my look, in extracting entries from .txt to the Symphony’s section and tune up a region/age/gender filters then.

Another way is build XML Data Source from .txt “on the fly” and filter directly in that huge XML output. Having in mind thousands of entries this way might require caching

thanks for the suggestions, really helpful.

andrr, not really a dating service, but a content part of it

Carsten, I can’t find an option in Symphony where I can build a page consisted of variables in xml, can you please give an advice, how to do it?

These might be good places to start for how-tos:

• Beginner’s Guide
• Say Hello to the World
• Say Hello to Symphony