"Native" categories

Destry · 2016-09-05 06:50:44

After all these years I’ve finally accepted Txp’s default flow for handling categories, and thus the resulting, visible URLs (e.g. domain.tld/category/category-name), which eliminates need for any plugins or special mod_rewrite rules.

But I currently have it set up for one Section only — /articles. Here’s the categories list I use in any /articles section context (e.g. rail, bottom of page, whatever):

<txp:category_list parent="1-articles" exclude="1-articles" wraptag="ul" break="li" form="categories-list-items" />

And here’s what’s in the associated categories-list-items form:

<a href="/category/<txp:category />"><txp:category title="1" /></a>

And then the default page’s main content is built with this structure:

<txp:if_search>
SEARCH RESULTS CODE

<txp:else />

  <txp:if_category>
  CATEGORIES CODE

  <txp:else />

    <txp:if_author>
    AUTHOR PROFILES CODE

    <txp:else />

      REGULAR HOMEPAGE CODE

    </txp:if_author>
  </txp:if_category>
</txp:if_search>

If the context is a category, the CATEGORIES CODE part kicks in, giving whatever you wanted to show, which for me is an articles list:

<txp:article_custom section="articles" category='<txp:category section="articles" />' form="topic-results-list" sort="posted desc" wraptag="ul" break="li" />

That works fine for now, but what if I wanted to expand that for one or more additional sections besides /articles? In other words, what if the incoming category context was from a /docs section?

Obviously (or seemingly, if not so obvious) I’d have to adjust the initial category_list, or create a separate but similar form for use in the additional section(s).

But how would I alter the article_custom tag above to be conditional to the section context? Or is that even possible?

Bloke · 2016-09-05 07:43:52

Destry wrote #301042:

Untested, but does this work?

<txp:article_custom section='<txp:section />' category='<txp:category section=''<txp:section />'' />' form="topic-results-list" sort="posted desc" wraptag="ul" break="li" />

Note the creative use of single and double-apostrophes instead of double-quotes.

Destry · 2016-09-05 07:50:10

Haha… I think the hardest thing about Txp is not overthinking it. Thanks Sifu!

phiw13 · 2016-09-05 07:55:25

Bloke wrote #301044:

Note the creative use of single and double-apostrophes instead of double-quotes.

Oh, that is interesting. I had never seen it used and certainly never thought about using that mix of double single-quote marks. Must add to my collection of snippets.

Is that documented somewhere?

Bloke · 2016-09-05 07:58:13

Destry wrote #301045:

I think the hardest thing about Txp is not overthinking it. Thanks Sifu!

You’re welcome, faithful Túdì!

Destry · 2016-09-05 08:04:48

I should clarify… I haven’t tested yet, but will as soon as I get some minutes. But I have faith in you, Master.

Bloke · 2016-09-05 08:09:23

phiw13 wrote #301046:

Is that documented somewhere?

Sort of. The page needs work though, not least of which to fix the typos.

phiw13 · 2016-09-05 08:41:59

Bloke wrote #301050:

Sort of. The page needs work though, not least of which to fix the typos.

Thanks for that.
eh, yeah, typos… I sometimes wishes my English was passable enough to go playing grammar-and-typos nazi so I could eventually help out.

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