Listing all articles in the same section as the current article

Andrew Ingram · 2008-01-01 21:54:00

Hi all,

I’m new with textpattern, and i’m having a bit of difficulty listing articles how I want to.

When I view a section I can display a list of all live articles for that section easily enough, but I can’t display that same list when you’re actually viewing the articles themselves.

ie:

/section1/ = shows the sticky article for section1 and shows a list of all live articles in section1
/section1/article-title = shows the specified article and also a list of all live articles in section1 (including the one we’re looking at)

I’ve searched around and can’t really find anything that helps.

Thanks.

thebombsite · 2008-01-01 22:00:55

Create a form called “listarticles” (or whatever you want) with code similar to:-

<li><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></li>

then in your page where you want the list to display:-

<ul><txp:asy_wondertag><txp:article_custom limit="9999" form="listarticles" section="<txp:section />" /></txp:asy_wondertag></ul>

Change the form name to whatever you called it. You will also need to install the asy_wondertag plug-in to allow you to use “tags within tags”.

Last edited by thebombsite (2008-01-01 22:02:57)

Andrew Ingram · 2008-01-01 22:37:34

Thanks, it works great. Is there not a way to do it without the plugin?

Also, how does article_custom differ from article?

jstubbs · 2008-01-01 22:47:53

article is context sensitive, i.e pulls articles based on the section it is in. article_custom is not context sensitive, so it can pull articles from any section. However, paging does not work with article_custom.

Gocom · 2008-01-02 00:26:23

Thanks, it works great. Is there not a way to do it without the plugin?

You could type the section manually to the <txp:article_custom />
You could turn automatic comments including off in prefs and use <txp:article /> instead of <txp:article_custom />. Then comments / form can be included to the article form with <txp:output_form form="comments_display" />
Or you could use some PHP and have no need for plugin

<txp:php>echo article_custom(
	array(
		'limit' => '9999',
		'section' => section(),
		'form' => 'listarticles',
	));
</txp:php>

Cheers!

Last edited by Gocom (2008-01-02 03:07:02)

thebombsite · 2008-01-02 02:41:03

Unfortunately TXP won’t allow tags within tags by default so the plug-in has to be used. The only problem with the plug-in is that it doesn’t work under all circumstances though I tend to find that it generally works with article_custom and rarely works with article.

As Jukka suggests you could just type the section name into the tag but then it will only work for that section whereas the method I show will work anywhere. Indeed if you wanted to be even more specific you could add category="<txp:category1 />" which would narrow the selection even further.

As Jonathan states the article tag is context-sensitive so as Jukka suggests again you could use article instead but that will cause problems with comments probably showing up twice which is why you would need to turn automatic comments off in the preferences.

Or you could start learning PHP. :(

Personally I think my method is much simpler, cleaner and more flexible but the choice is entirely yours. :)

Last edited by thebombsite (2008-01-02 02:41:26)

Rambling · 2008-01-03 02:45:14

thebombsite’s method worked perfectly for me. I want to show the name of the section above the list of links, so I tried using <h3><txp:section /></h3>. This inserted the name of the section, but I’d really like to insert the title of the section since I use section names that are shortened versions of my section titles (which is due to the need to avoid breaking links from the site I’m converting into a Textpattern site). Is there a Textpattern tag to get the title of a section?

iblastoff · 2008-01-03 02:53:17

textbook is your friend

specifically, <txp:section title="1" />

Rambling · 2008-01-03 03:04:08

iblastoff wrote:

textbook is your friend

Whoops, I guess I overlooked that. Thanks!

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Listing all articles in the same section as the current article

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