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#1 2014-11-11 10:44:27
- dorka
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- Registered: 2012-10-04
- Posts: 90
How do I wrap articles in a list in separate html tags by category?
Hello, my txp guard angels :-),
here is my code:
<txp:if_article_list>
<h1><txp:section title="1" /></h1>
<txp:article status="5" sort="Category1 asc, Title desc" limit="999" form='portfolio_form' />
<txp:else />
<txp:article status="5" limit="999" form='<txp:section/>_article'/>
</txp:if_article_list>Here is the content of “portfolio_form”:
<txp:if_different>
<div class="cat_title">
<h2 ><txp:category1 title="1" /></h3>
</div>
</txp:if_different>
<div class="article">
<a href="<txp:permlink />" itemprop="url">
<div class="video">
<txp:article_image width="0"/>
<h6><small ><txp:title /></small></h6>
</div>
</a>
</div>What I want to achieve is wrapping the list of articles in each category in a separate html tag. How does one do that in text pattern!?
Thanks
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Re: How do I wrap articles in a list in separate html tags by category?
It’s not easy with native tags, but how about this hacked-together approach:
Page:
<txp:if_article_list>
<h1><txp:section title="1" /></h1>
<txp:variable name="first_item" value="1" />
<txp:article status="5" sort="Category1 asc, Title desc" limit="999" form='portfolio_form' />
</div><!-- /last article_list -->
<txp:else />
<txp:article status="5" limit="999" form='<txp:section/>_article'/>
</txp:if_article_list>Form:
<txp:variable name="cat_title"><txp:if_different><txp:category1 title="1" /><txp:else /></txp:if_different></txp:variable>
<txp:if_variable name="cat_title" value="">
<txp:if_variable name="first_item" value="1">
<div class="article_list">
</txp:if_variable>
<txp:variable name="catlist" value="0" />
<txp:else />
<txp:if_variable name="first_item" value="0">
</div><!-- /article_list -->
</txp:if_variable>
<div class="cat_title">
<h2><txp:variable name="cat_title" /></h2>
</div>
<txp:variable name="catlist" value="1" />
</txp:if_variable>
<txp:variable name="first_item" value="0" />
<txp:if_variable name="catlist" value="1">
<div class="article_list">
<txp:variable name="catlist" value="0" />
</txp:if_variable>
<div class="article">
<a href="<txp:permlink />" itemprop="url">
<div class="video">
<txp:article_image width="0"/>
<h6><small ><txp:title /></small></h6>
</div>
</a>
</div>It may be able to simplify it further with a little rejigging, I haven’t tried. With something like smd_if, it might be simpler still as you could maybe roll some of the tests into an ‘or’ condition to simplify things.
This solution is based on flip-flopping flags, a bit like a state machine might work, but there are edge cases such as the start and end of the lists which need special dispensation, hence the extra <txp:variable> and <txp:if_variable> shenanigans. I didn’t bother building in any extra logic for the very end of the list, just assumed that there would be a list and hard-coded it in the Page template. If that’s not the case, you may need some extra logic to conditionally display the final closing div.
Alternatively you could probably use etc_query to retrospectively wrap the contents in one line of plugin awesomeness, but I’ll leave that to etc to explain :-)
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#3 2014-11-11 15:15:39
- dorka
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- Registered: 2012-10-04
- Posts: 90
Re: How do I wrap articles in a list in separate html tags by category?
Bloke,
you are genius! I took you an hour to answer and it took me 2.5 hours to understand what you have done. I got it finally! :-) I could’ve cut&paste and go on of course, but it just doesn’t feel right!
Thanks a lot and have a nice day.
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Re: How do I wrap articles in a list in separate html tags by category?
dorka wrote #285674:
took you an hour to answer and it took me 2.5 hours to understand what you have done.
Hehe. Just glad it worked. As I say, there’s probably a way to optimise it or use a plugin to make it clearer what’s going on. That was just the first approach off the top of my head.
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Re: How do I wrap articles in a list in separate html tags by category?
That’s more a curiosity, but it’s shorter, indeed:
<txp:etc_query data='<txp:article status="5" sort="Category1 asc, Title desc" limit="999" form="portfolio_form" />'
query="div[@class='cat_title']"
>
{.@@data-count=1}
<div class="shadow-box">
{following-sibling::div[@class='article'][preceding-sibling::div[@class='cat_title'][1]/@data-count]}
</div>
</txp:etc_query>This will leave your <div class="cat_title" /> with data-count="1" attribute, but it should be harmless.
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