Textpattern CMS

#1 2007-01-27 04:25:44

leohart

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Registered: 2006-02-09

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Integrate Textpattern into an existing site

I want Textpattern to power several different parts of a already-finished website.

What I am doing right now is: for those places that i want Textpattern to power, I put a .htaccess that rewrite certain URLs to certain sections of my TXP installation.

Things work okay except for txp:permlink which depends on site_url. However, I cannot configure different site_url for different sections?

My question are:
Is my approach to using 1 Textpattern installation to power several parts of my site correct (good)?
If so, how can I overcome the problem of permlink and different site_url for different sections?

#2 2007-01-27 05:20:26

Walker

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From: Boston, MA

Registered: 2004-02-24

Posts: 592

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Re: Integrate Textpattern into an existing site

One time I decided that I was going to build a site with textpattern but that it was not powerful enough so I could not run the index page using the CMS itself. So I hacked together a site with redirects and all kinds of other things and it did not work as well.

I would suggest either using Txp for the whole site, just as a blog (or other specific sub-system) within a site, or not at all.

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#3 2007-02-14 19:58:45

leohart

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Registered: 2006-02-09

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Re: Integrate Textpattern into an existing site

Well, in my case, I don’t really have a choice since there is already another system in place. Is it possible for me to have different site_url for different sections?

#4 2007-02-14 20:28:00

mrdale

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From: Walla Walla

Registered: 2004-11-19

Posts: 2,215

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Re: Integrate Textpattern into an existing site

Site URL please…

#5 2007-02-15 03:14:17

Elenita

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From: Falls Church, VA

Registered: 2004-05-16

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Re: Integrate Textpattern into an existing site

Echoing Dale, a site URL would help.

To answer your first question, there is no “correct” way to install / use Textpattern. However, it is software that works best at the root of a site; there can only be one Site URL. If none of your Textpattern-powered sub-sites overlap, it may be better to use multiple installations.

For what it’s worth, Textpattern is designed as a standalone application and you might have to do some hacking to get things to work the way you want.

Good luck!

#6 2007-02-15 17:13:16

Elenita

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From: Falls Church, VA

Registered: 2004-05-16

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Re: Integrate Textpattern into an existing site

I’ve been poking around Textpattern Resources this morning, and found the mdn_sectionlink plugin.

I still think you’ll have to retool your workflow a bit, but that plugin might help.