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#1 2006-05-06 18:21:55
- Krigsoffer
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- From: DK
- Registered: 2005-12-08
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Category-sections to follow the "archive" template!
Is it possible to make the category-sections follow the “archive” page template?
If so, then how i might ask?
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Re: Category-sections to follow the "archive" template!
Make a category listing use the same section and template
Is that what you are looking for?
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#3 2006-05-07 11:06:07
- Krigsoffer
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- Registered: 2005-12-08
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Re: Category-sections to follow the "archive" template!
Yes, i think so. But i can’t get figure out how to use it!
Following Thebombsite’s instructions, seems to be a little harder than i thought. And through that, i realized that i suck at coding…
So, my stupid question would now be: Is this the way to make the category-archives dependant on the “archive”-template?
The idea is that my front page, only has one article posted at a time1.
So when visitors enter the various category-links, they will see all existing articles, from the corresponding category2.
1 “default”-template: < txp:article limit=1 />
2 “archive”-template: < txp:article limit=[insanely high number, representing infinity] />
Get it?
… Hope you do, because i’m a sad man right now…
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#4 2006-05-07 11:46:21
- els
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Re: Category-sections to follow the "archive" template!
Yes, that should be right. Because the <txp:article /> tag is context sensitive, it will only show articles in the category that is requested. Be sure to code the links to the category pages the way Stuart explained in his post, so if you want a link to the article’s category page in your article form this would be: <a href="<txp:site_url /><txp:section />/?c=<txp:category1 />"><txp:category1 title=1 /></a>, and a navigation menu would become something like this:
<code>
<ul><li><a href=”<txp:site_url /><txp:section name=“name-of-section” />/?c=<txp:category name=“name-of-your-first-category” /><txp:category name=“name-of-your-first-category” title=“1” /></a></li>
<li><a href=”<txp:site_url /><txp:section name=“name-of-section” />/?c=<txp:category name=“name-of-your-second-category” /><txp:category name=“name-of-your-second-category” title=“1” /></a></li>
<li><a href=”<txp:site_url /><txp:section name=“name-of-section” />/?c=<txp:category name=“name-of-your-third-category” /><txp:category name=“name-of-your-third-category” title=“1” /></a></li>
etcetera…
</ul>
</code>
You could of course also do this
<a href="http://yoursite.com/name-of-section/?c=name-of-your-category">Title-of-your-category</a>
but if you ever changed a category or section name or title you’d have to change all of the links to it as well.
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