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#1 2007-06-30 17:15:54

johan_vm
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From: Antwerp, Belgium
Registered: 2005-04-24
Posts: 30
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output an article list, restricted to a certain category

Hello,

in order to complete the (sub)navigation of the site I am working on,
I need to be able to output:

<div id="links">
	<dl id="nav">
  		<dt><a href="#">HEADER 1</a></dt>
  		<dd><a href="#">CONTENT 1a</a></dd>
		<dd><a href="#">CONTENT 1b</a></dd>

  		<dt><a href="#">HEADER 2</a></dt>
 		<dd><a href="#">CONTENT 2a</a></dd>
		<dd><a href="#">CONTENT 2b</a></dd>

                 <dt><a href="#">HEADER 3</a></dt>
  		<dd><a href="#">CONTENT 3a</a></dd>
		<dd><a href="#">CONTENT 3b</a></dd>
	</dl>
</div><!-- end #links -->

the <dt>, HEADERx, is the name of a category, but I can hardcode this. It doesn’t have to be dynamic.
the <dd>’s are the titles of articles belonging to a certain category…

So I should be able to create this:

<dt><a href="#">Category1</a></dt>
<dd><a href="#">Title of Article1 belonging to Category1</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#">Title of Article2 belonging to Category1</a></dd>
...

Is this possible?
I know <txp: article_custom /> accepts a category="....." attribute,
but I don’t know how to use <txp: article_custom /> to only output a list of titles…

I do know how to output this list using <txp: article />, but in this case, I don’t know how to specify the desired category…

Can anybody please help me?


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#2 2007-06-30 17:29:46

johan_vm
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From: Antwerp, Belgium
Registered: 2005-04-24
Posts: 30
Website

Re: output an article list, restricted to a certain category

Sorry, I just found out how to solve this problem…

I can just use <txp: article_custom>, specify the category="Category1", ánd finally specify the form to use: form="ArticleTitle"

I then have to create a form called “ArticleTitle”, that only outputs the title of the desired articles.

I thought it could be solved in 1 step: a tag,
I didn’t think about 2 steps: a tag + a form.

It’s been a while since I coded my last TXP site…

Last edited by johan_vm (2007-06-30 17:33:02)


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