Textpattern CMS

#1 2006-10-28 05:37:05

MrShidojo

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Registered: 2006-10-28

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newbie - article association question

Wide-eyed textpattern newbie here, I’m wondering if anyone can help me envision how this would work:

Say I have two sections, “Calendar” and “Archive”

What I’m shooting for is to be able to optionally associate a Calendar article with a Archive article. As well as optionally associating a Archive article with multiple Calendar articles.

There would be a “one to many” relationship between articles posted in either section. It would be ideal for these to be represented through the RSS/Atom feeds, so I can enable some plugin-viewer ideas I have.

Is this just a matter of creating custom fields for the articles and “linking” variables to other articles? Is there a cleaner or better way to go about this?

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

#2 2006-10-28 16:05:47

els

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Re: newbie - article association question

Categories (<txp:link_feed /> has a ‘category’ attribute), custom fields, or tags?

#3 2006-10-29 20:33:30

MrShidojo

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Re: newbie - article association question

Thanks Els

that short reponse actually helps me a good amount – weighing out the options.

Looks like it’s using custom fields with encoding arrays of calendar posts into a string.