Navigation & pagination by sort criteria

merz1 · 2010-09-11 07:10:36

In the German sub-forum there is a thread asking for a title Index.

Feature request: Enhance the article and article_custom txp:tags limit and sort attributes by an optional navigational meta level.

Proposals:

indexpage="1" … Result: Push ‘A’ & get (only) all articles starting with “A…” (etc)
Granularity: Match n ‘letters’. match="2" = “Aa”, “Ab”, etc.
stopwords="comma, separated, list" (optional): Titles starting with ‘x’ should be sorted after the following word. Examples: The, it, ‘, “, der, die, das, etc.

Info: This question also came up (a while ago) in the tru_tags thread. I was asking for a similar keyword A-Z index feature because tag clouds/lists don’t make much sense if you have more than n keywords. The same is valid for article archive pages.

Last edited by merz1 (2010-09-11 07:23:50)

merz1 · 2010-09-11 07:20:14

Workaround: Maybe some kind soul can take the great but orphaned plug-in rss_suparchive by Rob Sable and enhance it.

Article listings by date or by category/section. Archive menu by month or year with totals

Last edited by merz1 (2010-09-11 07:20:58)

jsoo · 2010-09-11 14:27:56

merz1 wrote:

stopwords="comma, separated, list" (optional): Titles starting with ‘x’ should be sorted after the following word. Examples: The, it, ‘, “, der, die, das, etc.

This can be done with soo_article_filter. I’m not quite sure how you want the other two items to function (your proposed indexpage and match attributes).

merz1 · 2010-09-11 17:01:25

Thanks Jeff! soo_article is in the right direction. I will try to explain backward to finally get to the result:

Regarding stopwords your index_ignore and index_field attributes are what I meant. index_field is even more & good to have :)
My match proposal is best explained with the typical address book picture. All names starting with ‘A’ on one page would be match="1". In a bigger address base you might want all names on one page starting with ‘Aa’. Second page would be ‘Ab’. This case of finer granularity can be covered by match="2".
The indexpage thing is the tricky part (the ‘…’ in the proposal) to explain.
- Negative: If indexpage="0" the output is the standard list only sorted by sort="".
- Positive: If indexpage="1" the output only outputs one page/list for one matched match="n" criteria.

Navigation: To get to the multiple outputs the indexpage="1" attribute generates we need links (the ‘navigation’ part) to get to the single index pages. Those structural links we normally achieve by using links to sections or categories. Until now TXP does not have index links for all sort criteria.

Personal note: I feel like the use of tag-in-tag parsing with variable, if_different or even involving the brain twisting yield tags could solve the multiple index links issue but I can’t get hold of a solution.

jsoo · 2010-09-11 18:27:02

Of course the devs may well go for it, but I think this sort of feature will always remain in the realm of plugins. Incorporating it into core would make add complexity to what is already plenty complex (the underlying logic of article). But it looks like a straightforward problem to tackle with a plugin or some raw PHP.

merz1 · 2010-09-11 20:06:57

Thanks Jeff for the thumbs up :) Sometimes I am happy that I am no developer.

Mainly I wrote it down because lately there have been some threads asking for a ‘link to some sorted selection’ and esp. the last one in the German forum which I think makes some sense. I only tried to transcribe the wish for index links into an understandable feature request.

And because I understand quite well that TXP is no address database and no catalog publishing CMS I do understand that the motivation to realize this feature might be pretty low.

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