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#1 2006-03-07 01:36:52
- boyandin
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- Registered: 2005-09-16
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How to use the same page for article list, category list and search?
Greetings!
I have a start page with main content generated by:
<code>
<txp:article_custom form=“lastitem” limit=“1” />
<h3>Last 9 articles</h3>
<txp:article_custom form=“headline” limit=“10” offset=“1” />
</code>
The problems:
- when I use categories ‘pop-up’ selection, the same content is displayed. What can I use to display the selection by category in this case?
- the same about search results
In both cases above I won’t display the initial content (the last article and 10 recent in a list) along with selections (by category or search criteria).
Could you please suggest the best solution?
Thank you!
Konstantin
Last edited by boyandin (2006-03-07 01:38:34)
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Re: How to use the same page for article list, category list and search?
Hi Konstantin,
First, you can use <txp:article /> instead of <txp:article_custom />.
Results will be exactly the same, but in my opinion, the correct tool is txp:article.
You can read more about this in
txp:article vs. txp:article_custom
Also, if need you need more info, you can read the entries for both tags in the TextBook Tag Listing .
Regarding to what you want to achieve, I’m not totally sure about what you want.
Maybe something like this?
<code><txp:if_category>
…content if a category is being displayed.
<txp:else />
…content if we are not in a category listing
</txp:if_category>
</code>
You can merge that snippet with some txp:if_article_list and I have no doubt that you will achieve what you want.
About the searchs results, there is also a txp:if_search conditional (container) tag.
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Re: How to use the same page for article list, category list and search?
Actually you will require “nested” conditionals, which is a little tricky so I shall show you:-
<code>
<txp:if_category>
blah blah
<txp:else />
<txp:if_search>
blah blah
<txp:else />
blah blah
</txp:if_search>
</txp:if_category></code>
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You can avoid the “if_search” tags and make life a bit simpler by sending your search results to their own section. Read zem’s article on how to do this. It’s a bit old but it still applies.
Stuart
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#4 2006-03-09 00:23:47
- boyandin
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- Registered: 2005-09-16
- Posts: 21
Re: How to use the same page for article list, category list and search?
Thank you friends, I’ll experiment with these. I read once there are problems with nested conditionals, so your advice is very relevant.
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