same form outputting differently from one page to another

alicson · 2006-09-12 04:22:59

The simplest way to describe this problem is probably through illustration:

countries page: http://12bakers.com/sheladia/countries#Haiti
category page: http://12bakers.com/sheladia/category/Haiti/

Those two pages are drawing on the same articles, but on the countries page, it correctly prints the 3 sections: Agriculture, Transportation, Water Resources, and a total of 5 articles.

On the category page, it prints the Water Resources section twice (bad!), though still correctly printing a total of five articles. Why would that section be split/repeated?

The form I’m using to produce this (on the category page) is:

The form for the countries page is essentially the same:

They really should produce the same thing.

I have tried taking the exact contents of the countries form and replaced the category form with it.. but Water Resources still repeats. Is there something unique about being on a category page that would cause this? (Same problem with Egypt and some others…)

I updated to the very latest 4.0 revision of Textpattern (rev 1810), though I also tried an older copy of Textpattern. No difference. Am currently with the rev1810.

I am quite stuck. :-/ Any ideas would be much appreciated.

zem · 2006-09-12 06:08:01

Does one of the articles have Override Form set?

Take a look at the tag trace. You should be able to see each if_different call, and whether it evaluates to true or false. That might shed some light.

alicson · 2006-09-12 07:22:46

no Override Form..

Thanks for that suggestion Zem… I’ve never tried to view a tag trace before.

Well, this is what I got:

<blockquote><code><txp:if_category> [<txp:if_category>: true] <txp:category title=“1” /> <txp:article form=”@projectbycat” sortby=“Category2” sortdir=“asc” limit=“9999” /> [SQL (0.004034): select name from txp_section where on_frontpage != ‘1’] [SQL (0.232556): select count(*) from textpattern where 1 and Status=‘4’ and Posted <= now() and ((Category1=‘haiti’) or (Category2=‘haiti’)) and Section != ‘about’ and Section != ‘projects’ and Section != ‘countries’] [SQL (0.016984): select *, unix_timestamp(Posted) as uPosted from textpattern where 1 and Status=‘4’ and Posted <= now() and ((Category1=‘haiti’) or (Category2=‘haiti’)) and Section != ‘about’ and Section != ‘projects’ and Section != ‘countries’ order by Category2 asc limit 0, 9999] [SQL (0.009883): select Form from txp_form where name=’@projectbycat’] [Form: @projectbycat] [article 44] <txp:if_different> [<txp:if_different>: true] <txp:category2/> </txp:if_different> <txp:if_different> [<txp:if_different>: true] <txp:section link=“1” title=“1” /> [SQL (0.009322): select title from txp_section where name=‘sagri’] </txp:if_different> <txp:permlink> <txp:title/> </txp:permlink> [article 97] <txp:if_different> [<txp:if_different>: true] <txp:category2/> [<txp:if_different>: false] </txp:if_different> <txp:if_different> [<txp:if_different>: true] <txp:section link=“1” title=“1” /> [SQL (0.008882): select title from txp_section where name=‘swater’] </txp:if_different> <txp:permlink> <txp:title/> </txp:permlink> [article 211] <txp:if_different> [<txp:if_different>: true] <txp:category2/> [<txp:if_different>: false] </txp:if_different> <txp:if_different> [<txp:if_different>: true] <txp:section link=“1” title=“1” /> [SQL (0.000103): select title from txp_section where name=‘strans’] </txp:if_different> <txp:permlink> <txp:title/> </txp:permlink> [article 212] <txp:if_different> [<txp:if_different>: true] <txp:category2/> [<txp:if_different>: false] </txp:if_different> <txp:if_different> [<txp:if_different>: true] <txp:section link=“1” title=“1” /> [<txp:if_different>: false] </txp:if_different> <txp:permlink> <txp:title/> </txp:permlink> [article 246] <txp:if_different> [<txp:if_different>: true] <txp:category2/> [<txp:if_different>: false] </txp:if_different> <txp:if_different> [<txp:if_different>: true] <txp:section link=“1” title=“1” /> </txp:if_different> <txp:permlink> <txp:title/> </txp:permlink>
</txp:if_category></code></blockquote>

so I see <code>select title from txp_section where name=‘swater’]</code> there once…. but why is Water Resources printing twice? article 97 and article 246…

zem · 2006-09-12 07:37:07

why is Water Resources printing twice? article 97 and article 246…

There are two other articles between those.

alicson · 2006-09-12 07:43:59

Right.. the two Transportation articles.
But why does the same code that produces this double Water Resources output on this category page,
then comes through nicely with this: http://12bakers.com/sheladia/countries#Haiti and doesn’t break up/repeat Water Resources?
:-/

hmm… okay.. this might be a simple sorting issue, right? *goes to try that*

alicson · 2006-09-12 07:48:38

….

well don’t I feel terribly intelligent.

simply adding the word “Section” to the <code>sortby</code> in my article tag solved the whole thing very simply:
<blockquote><code><txp:article form=”@projectbycat” sortby=“Category2,Section” sortdir=“asc” limit=“9999” /></code></blockquote>

Thank you very much for the mind-bending :)

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#1 2006-09-12 04:22:59

same form outputting differently from one page to another

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