It mostly depends on what slider plugin you are using. You can just use a collection list to “print” out all the necessary slide info onto your page, then based on the documentation of the slider plugin, initialise the slider with the correct options.
That’s the general workflow, I can’t be specific as we do not have access to your project.
Like I said, you are over-complicating this. All this info (like an expiry date) can already be managed via the webflow CMS and no additional external app is required.
@samliew, thanks! Do you have a slider plugin you’d recommend for this case? I’m looking for any example code for an external slider connecting with a “collection list ‘print[ed]’ out”
And that’s cool you can tell the CMS to auto-delete items after a selected date. How would I set that up?
@samliew Thank you for curating this slider example. I’d seen jbleroux’s solution although didn’t realize he has a designer preview available, thanks! Sorry to have you search for me.
And thanks for the date-filtering on collection list tip! That’s most helpful.
If anyone has any example code for server-side processing the CMS API to a client side Webflow site, I’d still like to learn that for edge-case client needs that may pop-up in the future. Thanks again though, Sam!
Excuse my ignorance, a lot of that looks like greek to me. Would it be possible to list each item in a collection, along with each of its field, in a list or in a table?
@PiXL3 To fetch data from any server to any app (web or mobile), we need an API. I think you have done the same using Zapier. I would say it’s a good solution.
If you don’t want to use Zapier, you will need to create an API using any server-side programming language like PHP or Python.
Javascript is only used to call that API. That’s what I have done in my sample.
I hope this helps. Let me know if have any questions.
I am having trouble with API image URLs not showing on the published website, would you mind taking a look at my problem? Image upload to zapier to CMS - solved
@PiXL3 You can use any server-side programming language (PHP, Python, RoR) to create your own API. Host it on a server, and use it with your Webflow project.
I haven’t explored all AWS services. But I used Amazon API Gateway once.