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#1 2007-07-11 18:38:40
- thegrb
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Sections within content
Sort of a basic question, I hope someone can point me in the right direction.
Lets say I have pages that are kind of divided into sections. For example content of any individual page is as follows
—-
Introduction
(content)
Bio
(content)
Added notes
(content)
——
Lets say someone needs to edit only the ‘added notes’. Would you recommend using something similar to the default template to go in and just edit that part or is there a better way to separate each part similar to the way header, footer, content, and sidebar are separated,
I hope I make sense here, I guess my question is to what degree can we divide content into individual pieces and if there is an easy way with templates in textpattern to do this. Thanx
Last edited by thegrb (2007-07-11 18:40:27)
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#2 2007-07-11 18:49:42
- masa
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Re: Sections within content
Separate articles seems the way to go. You can modify the way they’re being rendered on a specific page/section with a custom article form and/or custom template if you want to get rid of any distracting dividers.
Cheers Martin
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#3 2007-07-11 19:22:38
- rsilletti
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Re: Sections within content
You can also add, then modify, static content in your page templates by using forms <txp:output_form form=“yourform” />. You can then reuse your forms in different templates and update or change all instances by updating your form.
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#4 2007-07-11 19:22:54
- thegrb
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Re: Sections within content
Thanx for the quick reply
Do you mean the option like I am displaying 3 (or other number) articles on one page? How do I keep track of the individual pages? I can or have to name each (3 article) page to correspond to the specific entry somehow
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Re: Sections within content
Just use misc forms or another kind of forms to design a layout. Example, you can do like this, just making couple of form, and writing some lines in the pagetemplate.
In pagetemplate default:
<txp:output_form form="header" />
<txp:output_form form="content" />
<txp:output_form form="footer" />
In misc form header:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fi" lang="fi">
<head>
<!-- And another header's staff -->
<title>Your Site Title</title>
</head>
<body>
In misc form footer:
</body>
</html>
In misc form content:
Just now it’s the trickiest part. You have to make sections for those every section: bio, added-notes, introduction. Then you put inside misc form named content simple lines that call content depending a specific section.
<txp:if_section name="bio">
Your bio content here
</txp:if_section>
<txp:if_section name="added-notes">
Your Add notes content here
</txp:if_section>
<txp:if_section name="introduction">
Your introduction content here
</txp:if_section>
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#6 2007-07-12 17:29:50
- thegrb
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Re: Sections within content
Thanx, I will try that.
In the meanwhile I am also trying to work out clean URLs, I have looked at the faq and threads here, thats another story I know
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