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I recently updated my CV online. It was a static HTML website before – I had never even thought about using TXP because it didn’t seem like a traditional layout / format for the CMS. As a static website it remained, well, static for over 3 years. So when I finally needed to update it I almost gave up because of the sheer tedium of coding HTML by hand – that’s when it occurred to me I should probably be using TXP after all. In the end it took much less time to integrate with the CMS than it would have to finish coding by hand – and TXP opened a lot of doors for what was then possible. The site is here (shameless plug):

Aeron Glemann, Curriculum Vitae, Standards-based web application developer, Costa Rica – New York

• There is some fancy JS coding with Mootools.
• I use hak_article_image to manage multiple image articles and the essentials: asy_wondertag and chh_if_data and that’s about it for the public side.

I coded a quick and dirty tagging system using the TXP keywords field. In my forms I have something like this (wrapped inside chh_if_data natch):

<txp:php>
	global $thisarticle;
	assert_article();

	$keywords = explode(',', $thisarticle['keywords']);

	$anchors = array();

	foreach ($keywords as $keyword){ 
		$anchors[] = tag($keyword, 'a', ' target="_parent" href="'.hu.'?q='.str_replace(' ', '+', $keyword).'"'); 
	}

	echo implode(', ', $anchors);
</txp:php>

The target attr because projects load in an iframe. Then I had to hack publish.php slightly, around line 590:

$match = "";
$search = " and (Keywords rlike '$q') $s_filter";
if (!$sort) $sort='Posted desc';

Anyway, check it out - hope you like it!