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Automatically numbered footnoted credit, if applicable
I’m about to start running micro-blogs on my site, some of the tip-offs for which will (hopefully) be sent in by readers of the site. For those instances, I want to credit those tipsters’ names along the bottom of the relevant page, referenced by a number on the article.
Doing this with a txp:article_id in x and y forms and two txp:article tags with form="x" and "y" tags on the page is a doddle, of course, but being the difficult chap that I am, I want numbers starting with 1 on each page of 40 blogs, and only numbering those articles with a tipster custom_field filled in. So if only 4 of the 40 are from tips, I want those blogs to show numbers 01, 02, 03 and 04, with the tipsters credited 01, 02, 03 and 04 in that second txp:article bit, and the next page of 40 restarting from 1.
I’d bet my house there’s a simple txp:php solution for this, probably to be embedded within a txp:if_custom_field in form x and something calling it in y; if only I were clever enough to know simple php.
Thanks all.
Hicks, no relation to John, name thought-of before I’d heard of JH
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Re: Automatically numbered footnoted credit, if applicable
You could use rvm_privileged to supply the logged in user when making new entries with smd_query. Also when making requests with smd_query. That’s the combo I’d read on at first. Hope that helps a bit. Not sure how I would do/try that.
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Re: Automatically numbered footnoted credit, if applicable
Thanks Josh.
I was hoping, or thinking, it wouldn’t need a plugin. Is there a way, anyone?
Ta.
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Did I just lose my house?
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Would the txp:if_different tag help? If you used against txp:author to isolate them so that you can sort and number as needed based on any custom fields.
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All right, I think I’ve figured out a way. This is in my x form:
<txp:adi_calc name="whatnotno" value='<txp:variable name="whatnotno"/>' add="1"/>
<txp:variable name='<txp:article_id/>' value='<txp:variable name="whatnotno"/>'/>
<txp:variable name='<txp:article_id/>'/>and in my y:
<txp:variable name='<txp:article_id/>'/>Seems to work in rudimentary tests, without my custom fields (which as I look at them now I can’t add to… another search for me). Perhaps I am learning something after all.
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another search for me
Post back. Love to see what comes next. Seems useful for sites with lots of authors as I’m tied too now. Did the if_different tag not have any potential use in your predicament?
Last edited by whaleen (2010-03-17 04:25:28)
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