Learn how use text content of the content management system in ProdigyView.

1. Text Content Management

2. Overview
Objective
Learn how to manipulate text content of ProdigyView’s
built-in content management system.
Requirements
 Installed version of ProdigyView with a database
 Understanding of base content
Estimated Time
10 minutes
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3. Follow Along With Code
Example
1. Download a copy of the example code at
www.prodigyview.com/source.
2. Install the system in an environment you feel comfortable
testing in.
3. Proceed to examples/content/TextContentExample.php

4. What Is Text Content?
Text content is content whose make up primarily consist of
text information. Examples of text information is below but
can be expanded upon depending on the needs of the cms
and the developers imagination.
 Books  News Websites
 Manuscripts  Blogging
 Documents  etc

5. Extends Base Content
Like the other content types, text content extends base
content. This means it has all the fields that base content
has in addition to the fields that describes a text.
Text Content Fields Base Content Fields

6. Create Text Content
Text content is relatively easy to create. In an array, passed defined
fields into PVContent::createTextContent method.
1. Define the content that will be stored as text content
3. Return content id 2. Pass tha array to PVContent::createTextContent

7. Database View
Remember that the text content utilizes both the base
content and text content fields. This is accomplished by
joining two tables. Your two tables in the database should
look something like below.

8. Text Content Fields
The previous slide only showed a few fields that can be set
when defining product content. The complete list of fields that
apply only to the product content type is:

9. Search for Text Content
Using the syntax from the PV Standard Search Query, we
can search for content related to text on the fields for both
base content and text content.
1. Search based on the passed arguments
2. Pass args into getTextContentList()
method
3. Returns an array of arrays that
contains the list of event content

10. Iterate Through The List
Next we can iterate through the list of text content to see
the data we just added.
1. Iterate through the fields base content
2. With the automatic joining of the tables, text
content fields are also returned

11. Retrieving Text Content
Text content can also be retrieved directly using the
content id. The data associated with that event id will be
returned in array.
1. Pass in the content id
2. Content is returned in an array
4. Get the values of the array by 3. Or get the content id through the
specifying the associated index content’s alias

12. Updating Text Content
That array that contains the information for updating an text
content. Simply change a value at an index in the array and
pass it to PVContent::updateTextContent() method.
Remember the content_id variable is required.
1. Append to the content in the text_content field
2. Pass the array back to update

13. Deleting Text Content
The last action to take place is deleting the text content.
To delete content, we pass the content id into
PVContent::deleteContent method.
All the content types(audio, video, event, etc) use the
PVContent::deleteContent method.

14. Review
1. Create text content by passing an array of arguments into
PVContent::createTextContent()
2. PVContent::createTextContent() will return the id of the
newly generated event content
3. Search for event content by using the syntax from PV
Standard Search Query and passing those arguments into
PVContent::getTextContentList()
4. Update content by passing an array of accepted fields in
PVContent::updateTextContent(). The content_id must
be present for this method to work.
5. Delete event content by passing the content_id into
PVContent::deleteContent().
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15. API Reference
For a better understanding of base content, visit the api
by clicking on the link below.
PVContent
More Tutorials
For more tutorials, please visit:
http://www.prodigyview.com/tutorials
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