I need to set up a wiki for a VFX company. It's gotta be simple, just a wikipedia-like site where any registered user can post, edit, and add new stuff (e.g. resources, articles, questions, notes, feedback, etc.) about work being done. That's the main content area. The left-hand sidebar (picture Wikipedia's layout for this example) is a simple list like so:

- Home
- Categories
- Category
- SubCategory
- SubCategory
- Category
- SubCategory
- SubCategory

So the Categories section is like the 'wp_list_categories' command in WordPress where each category links to an index of everything posted under that category. I've been trying to set it up with TikiWiki since yesterday and can't get it to work out... have tried PHPWiki and MediaWiki briefly and had even less luck. Any ideas? Need to do this pretty much ASAP, so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks much.

You say you've tried several pre-made solutions, but i don't see any mention of what went wrong with them. If they're in PHP, i'm assuming their open source, so you could probably modify them to work. What problems did you have with them.

Also, i see what you are trying to accomplish, but where are you stuck? The listing of sub-categories, or the displaying of the indexes?

The listing of the categories is the issue. I've got it to work somewhat so far [http://animivirtus.com/vfxwiki/] with categories set up, users can view and categorize things they create, and there's a categories page they can access, but I can't list the categories in the menu. I can get the indexes to display, but only through a "Categories" link that leads to a new page with the categories listed, which then lead to the indexes of everything under that category.

I looked through TikiWiki's category pages in the documentation and there are a few mentions of functions that sound like they print a list of categories, but I either didn't use them correctly or they don't work.

It is open source, and the TikiWiki one is PHP, but I know next-to-nothing in PHP, so I wouldn't want to touch it that way... it just seems to me to be a pretty basic function, seen all over the web, so with a pre-made solution I thought it'd be a simple matter.

Thanks for responding!

Perhaps this post can help you:
http://www.pixel2life.com/forums/index.php...amp;hl=category

We decided on using a different service as our solution...but thanks for spending time, pointing out the article! Too technical for me, but I have wanted to get into this stuff for a while... maybe when I have more time. Anyway...thanks.