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#1 2020-08-30 00:46:02
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Loop with articles from two sites ordered by date
Good night people! I haven’t been to the forum in a while, I hope you are all well.
So, I have a website created in textpattern where I did a new installation of Textpattern in a subdirectory. I used the same database with a table prefix as requested in the installation. Everything went well.
Now, I want to make a loop that contains the articles from the main site and also from the site that is in the subdirectory and then sort by the most recent ones. I did all this with the etc_query plug-in like this:
<txp:variable name='loopoffset' value='0'/>
<txp:variable name='looplimit' value='5'/>
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<txp:etc_query globals='variable' data="SELECT * FROM textpattern WHERE Status = '4' UNION ALL SELECT * FROM elctextpattern WHERE Status = '4' ORDER BY Posted desc LIMIT {?looplimit} OFFSET {?loopoffset}">
<h1>{Title?}</h1>
<p>{Posted?}</p>
<txp:else />
<p>Nobody here.</p>
</txp:etc_query>Ok, work completed so far, the problem arises when I need a pagination for the next articles and I’m not sure how I can do that. Any idea?
Thanks
Last edited by Myusername (2020-08-30 05:00:28)
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Re: Loop with articles from two sites ordered by date
Sorry I cannot think of a way but is there a strong reason you did the second install or could both contents co-exist in one db?
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#3 2020-08-30 05:44:59
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Re: Loop with articles from two sites ordered by date
colak wrote #325662:
Sorry I cannot think of a way but is there a strong reason you did the second install or could both contents co-exist in one db?
The reason for the second installation is basically a lot of content on the website. I need more organization mainly on the back end. Every day my website produces a lot of content on many subjects, and having them all mixed up is a mess.
So, I believe that this new installation is interesting, I manage to keep some content separate, including categories and sections of that content. However, on the front-end, I would like to keep a feed with our latest updates, from whatever part of the site.
Is it a bad idea?
Anyway, I got a satisfactory result this way:
<txp:variable name='looplimit' value='10'/>
<txp:variable name="loopoffset" value='<txp:evaluate query=''<txp:page_url type="pg" /> * <txp:variable name="looplimit"/> - <txp:variable name="looplimit"/>'' />' />
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<txp:etc_query globals='variable, thispage' data="SELECT * FROM textpattern WHERE Status = '4' UNION ALL SELECT * FROM elctextpattern WHERE Status = '4' ORDER BY Posted desc LIMIT {?looplimit} OFFSET {?loopoffset}">
<h1>{Title?}</h1>
<p>{Posted?}</p>
<txp:else />
<p>Nobody here.</p>
</txp:etc_query>As I will not use <txp: article> on the homepage, I think it works.
Last edited by Myusername (2020-08-30 05:47:05)
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