List all articles in section *without* specifying section

sparkymalarky · 2007-10-15 12:18:43

If I have a section, say “mysection” that someone is browsing, how do I list all articles in that section? I know I can do a article_custom and actually specify the section name “mysection”, but then I have to have a different form for each section as I’m hardcoding the section. Is there any way of displaying a list of articles in the “current” section as it were? I thought recent_articles might restrict to the current section but it doesnt appear to.

Thanks

Marcus

Dragondz · 2007-10-15 13:11:29

Hi marcus

you can use txp:article that list articles in the section or category

sparkymalarky · 2007-10-15 13:16:26

Mmmm – I’ve tried that but then when a user navigates to one of the articles in the section the list output by the article tag only points to the current article, not to all articles in the section.

I should maybe explain what I’m trying to do…

Basically I’m using txp for a fairly static site, so sections each have a multiple articles that represent pages in the site heirarchy:

Section1 – page1, page2, page3
Section2 – page4, page5, page6
Section3 – page7

Each section has a single “sticky” article that is displayed on the sections default/landing page “/Section1”, the rest are listed in a sidebar as a navigable list. So when someone goes to page2 in section1 the list should still display page1, page2 and page3.

If I can do it without hardcoding a section name I can have a single page template for all of these pages, if not I have to have 3 different pages where only the section name in this list will change.

Marcus

Last edited by sparkymalarky (2007-10-15 13:21:27)

michaelkpate · 2007-10-16 13:36:52

Have you looked at the functionality offered by txp:if_section? I often use this statement to make the same page code reusable.

redbot · 2007-10-16 17:17:49

Have you tried combining article_custom with asy_wondertag plugin (tags in tags)?
You should use it this way:

<txp:asy_wondertag>
<txp:article_custom section=”<txp:section />”
</txp:asy_wondertag>

In this case you won’t need to hardcode section names. you only need one page template

sparkymalarky · 2007-10-24 14:35:58

Perfect – just what I needed. Will check out the plugin now. Thanks

ABDC · 2008-02-06 14:29:18

That would be the perfect plugin, but I cannot find it on textpattern.org? Where can I find some information please?

ABDC · 2008-02-06 14:32:07

OK, found it sorry. Here it is: http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=18593

jordi · 2008-02-06 15:04:52

I may be missing something here, but I think Dragondz is right, as txp:article pulls only articles from the current section. Wouldn’t this be enough for what you try to accomplish?

If you put the tag in the sidebar, say like this:
<code><txp:article limit=“3” form=“myform” />

and in “my form”:
<code><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></code>

you should get links to all 3 articles.

Last edited by jordi (2008-02-06 15:10:58)

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