[howto] Are you lost and confused with the default section?

kit · 2006-02-20 21:07:57

Textpattern is lovely but the concept and use of the default section had me bamboozeled for days – actually I’m still confused. However, by adding the following code to each page to replace the title tag I can see:

Which section the page uses
Is it an article list or individual acticle
Search results
or Category List
BUT cannot catch the Author list – how do you do it?

<code>
<title>
<txp:page_title separator=” » “ />
(section:
<txp:if_section name=”“> default
<txp:else /> <txp:section title=“1” />
</txp:if_section>
, type:
<txp:if_individual_article> individual article
</txp:if_individual_article>
<txp:if_article_list> <txp:if_search> search <txp:else /> <txp:if_category> category list <txp:else /> article list </txp:if_category> </txp:if_search>
</txp:if_article_list>
)
</title>
</code>

I hope this is of use to newbies other than myself.

(Putting this code in a form would improve its reusability)

rsilletti · 2006-02-21 00:00:39

The URL would go this way: <code>http://yoursite.com/author/The+Author+Name</code> (clean URLs)

Nice idea, I use something similar to this in an article form; too many homegrown tags to post here however. The question of by author search lists… I suppose thier is a way, but I can’t think of a “currently present in the system” tag solution, but it should always be self evident in the current URL.

kit · 2006-02-21 09:30:27

It needs a “if_author” tag which would works the same way as “if_search” or “if_category”. Do you think this would be worthy of inclusion in later versions of textpatterm?

rsilletti · 2006-02-21 15:44:02

In what live site circumstance would you use it?

Mary · 2006-02-21 19:08:10

Making lists of articles by author, of course; you may not want the list to look like your default page. :)

Sure, it’s possible, I’m even sending in a patch.

Edit: and there’s a plugin that can be used in the meantime: rss_if_author

Last edited by Mary (2006-02-21 19:19:10)

igner · 2006-02-21 19:22:19

Mary – I don’t remember seeing the patch posted to the dev list (but I’ve been busy with non-txp projects, so I might have missed it). Just curious what your solution was/is.

I needed this behaviour for www.bigtakeover.com and ended up hacking publish.php to check if author is passed in, and if so, to use a page “author”:

added around line 387 in publish.php:
I changed
<code> // by this point we should know the section, so grab its page and css $rs = safe_row(“*”, “txp_section”, “name = ‘“.doSlash($s).”’ limit 1”);
</code>

to

<code> // by this point we should know the section, so grab its page and css if($out[‘author’]) { $sp = ckEx(‘section’,‘author’) ? ‘author’ : $s; } else { $sp = $s; }

$rs = safe_row(“*”, “txp_section”, “name = ‘“.doSlash($sp).”’ limit 1”);
</code>

It’s probably not necessary to shift $s into a new variable ($sp), but I didn’t feel like tracing through the code to see if $s was used beyond that point, so just to be safe I didn’t simply overwrite the value of $s. Also note that I went for a fast and easy fix in this case – if the request is for an “author” page, use page named “author” if it exists, otherwise failover to the default.

rsilletti · 2006-02-21 21:08:25

I assign sections to authors, but yes, I do see your point; and yes, do be careful of the kids with the violin cases.

rsilletti · 2006-02-21 23:20:55

A couple of questions:

Is rss_if_author intended to be used just in an article form, or can it be used in a page context as well, for author search page settings like if_search.

And, are there any holes in this approach that you can see?

<pre> function ras_if_author($atts, $thing) { global $pretext; extract(lAtts(array( ‘name’ => ‘’, ),$atts)); extract($pretext); if($name == ‘’) { return parse(EvalElse($thing, $author)); } else { return parse(EvalElse($thing, in_list($author, $name))); } }
</pre>

Mary · 2006-02-22 01:33:33

> “…I don’t remember seeing the patch posted to the dev list…”

Haven’t sent it in yet, hence no use of past tense. ;) Just sending it in right now.

> “Is rss_if_author intended to be used just in an article form…”

Yeah, looks like it.

You want to global $author, rather than declare and use $pretext. They both return the same result, but $author doesn’t need to be extracted, so you save a function call.

Last edited by Mary (2006-02-22 01:33:57)

rsilletti · 2006-02-22 03:55:02

Yes, works well that way, Thanks Mary.

Plugin link <a href=“http://textcastle.com/index.php?s=file_download&id=35”>Txp:ras_if_author</a>

kit · 2006-02-22 13:27:22

Thanks it works a treat. However, it would be nicer to have a easy way of redirecting category, search, and author lists to specific pages rather than use lashings of conditional tags in the default page. I almost gave up on txp when my beautifully styled home page colapsed into choas as I slowly discovered what else uses the default page. But that’s a problem for another thread.

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by kit (2006-02-22 16:07:09)

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