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#1 2005-12-05 11:26:02
- rbl
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- From: Portugal
- Registered: 2004-02-25
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list all articles in a section started by the letter A?
Hi!
I was wondering how to make a simple glossary and would like to know if anyone has any idea on how I could list all articles inside a section that start with a chosen letter?
It could work basically as a wildcard search on article title’s only. I would create a list of links in the template, A to Z , each letter linking to the search result of “search.php?q=a*” for example.
Any idea on how I can accomplish it?
Thanks! =)
Ricardo
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Re: list all articles in a section started by the letter A?
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#3 2005-12-05 14:02:45
- els
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- Registered: 2004-06-06
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Re: list all articles in a section started by the letter A?
I think there may be an easier way to do it.
- Use a custom field to store the first character of the article title.
- Article tag something like
<txp:article sortby="NameOfCustomfield asc" form="index" /> - Then with txp:if_different in the form ‘index’ you should be able to split the output into A, B, C etcetera.
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Re: list all articles in a section started by the letter A?
That’s tedious. So, it should be a computer’s job.
At the worst, some PHP or SQL might do the trick. On the custom field part, for the rest the txp:if_different is perfect for the job.
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Re: list all articles in a section started by the letter A?
I wrote the article linked to above. A couple of points— it was done with gamma 1.19, so I agree that this is not the most efficient way to do it anymore. However, it’s not a tedious as it sounds and it has held up well :). I am just starting to get my mind around <code>txp:if_different</code>. For us the need is to get only the results beginning with a certain letter— a list of everything ordered by letter would go on for miles… Can that be done with <code>txp:if_different</code>?
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#6 2005-12-05 22:24:10
- els
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Re: list all articles in a section started by the letter A?
What’s so tedious about typing A, B or C in a custom field?
I suppose something like this would display everything on one page, but with navigation:
Form:
<code>
<txp:if_different>
<div id=”<txp:custom_field name=“letter” />”><txp:custom_field name=“letter” /></div>
</txp:if_different>
<txp:title />
</code>
Navigation (I can’t think of anything else than handcoding):
<code>
<a href=”#A”>A</a> | <a href=”#B”>B</a> | etcetera
</code>
But if you want one letter per page I suppose you should use categories instead of custom fields.
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