Recommended Content Structure?

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Hi everyone! :wave: Kirby n00b here (and first time using PHP). I am SUPER excited to jump in and learn Kirby. Love the NoDB concept.

I run a small site called uxtools that’s currently mostly a VueJS single-page-app. I’m looking to move to Kirby for SEO purposes, and to get my blog off of Medium.

As you can see at https://uxtools.co/tools, I have a lot of JSON pumping through the app. I’d like to ideally generate pages for Kirby for each category and each individual tool.

I was imagining that I would structure my content like this, then:
Main
— Tools
— Prototyping
— Tool 1
— Tool 2
— …
— Design
— Tool 1
— Tool 2
— …
— Versioning
— Tool 1
— Tool 2
— …

That’s going to be a lot of data entry, however! I thought maybe I could generate JSON from those pages, and then use the JSON to power the VueJS app.

Is there a way to automatically generate pages from JSON, or am I looking at this completely wrong? I appreciate any feedback or direction!

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If I get it right, these are two different questions.

  1. Can you read the current JSON and create folders and files from that in Kirby. Answer: yes, that is possible. Does the current content only exist in JSON format?

  2. Can you generate JSON from Kirby pages to be consumed in an app. Answer: yes, of course. There is even a plugin you can use to create your JSON API.

The structure looks ok, unless there are tools that belong to multiple categories.

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  1. The content currently exists as JSON. Are there any tutorials for creating folders/files from JSON?
  2. Cool, that plugin looks great. Ideally, I would compile the JSON locally and import it into my Javascript, but I might be able to make something like this work.

Thanks for the help!

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Do you have a link to something that would let me know where to start if I want to import a json file and turn it into individual Kirby pages?

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You can read a son file like this:

$json = f::read($kirby->roots()->index().'/your-json-file.json');  // or whatever the path
dump(json_decode($json, true)); // with the true parameter, an array is returned, otherwise an standard PHP object

You can then loop through your array and create pages from it.

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Guess I need to dig into the socks for the bits on creating page. Haven’t done that part before, and kind of forgot it was a thing I could do. Thanks!

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Check out the docs, or this forum or my https://github.com/texnixe/kirby-csv-handler plugin

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Ooh, that plugin looks perfect the needs of this specific project I think. Thanks!