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#1 2008-02-06 02:01:45

reuben
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2005-05-09
Posts: 18
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custom_field within article_custom tag

I’m just wondering if anyone can spot any issues with the following syntax which would cause Textpattern to throw out a Textpattern Notice: Unknown tag attribute: name error?

<txp:if_custom_field name="TargetAdvert">
<txp:article_custom form="fh-inner-sponsor-eng" pgonly="0" section="Sponsors" id="<txp:custom_field name="TargetAdvert" />" />
<txp:else />
<txp:article_custom form="fh-inner-sponsor-eng" pgonly="0" section="Sponsors" sort="rand()" status="5" limit="1" />
</txp:if_custom_field>

What I’m trying to do is: if the custom field has a value in it, then display content as per the first article_custom but display the particular article ID that’s been put in the custom field. If not, just display a random article.

I’ve tried wrapping <asy_wondertag>‘s around it but that didn’t help either.

I’ve been away from Txp for a bit and I’m a bit stumped even though I’ve managed to make something like this happen several times in the past!

TIA!


Reuben Whitehouse ~ Rocketfuelled

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#2 2008-02-06 02:13:11

Gocom
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From: Helsinki, Finland
Registered: 2006-07-14
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Re: custom_field within article_custom tag

You can’t have tags in side tags with out asy_wondertag or php. To make sure, it’s <txp:asy_wondertag> not <asy_wondertag> ;)

So: <txp:asy_wondertag><txp:article_custom form="fh-inner-sponsor-eng" pgonly="0" section="Sponsors" id="<txp:custom_field name="TargetAdvert" />" /></txp:asy_wondertag>

Last edited by Gocom (2008-02-06 02:13:43)

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#3 2008-02-06 02:26:25

reuben
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2005-05-09
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Re: custom_field within article_custom tag

Ah! Thanks Gocom – I think I’d been closing the tag wrong like so: </asy_wondertag> hence the increased problems I got when trying to use it.

Thanks again, I was going around in circles for a while there!


Reuben Whitehouse ~ Rocketfuelled

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#4 2008-02-11 20:21:14

mercyskye
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Registered: 2008-02-11
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Re: custom_field within article_custom tag

Hello—I am rather new to TXP and was searching for how to put tags within tags, when I came across this response. I couldn’t have found “asy_wondertag” in any documentation, so I’m fortunate to have stumbled upon it here.

However, when I attempt to use it, all the code between it disappears. Here is what I am trying to do:

<txp:if_custom_field name="thumb_list"> Click the thumbnail to view the full-size image. <txp:asy_wondertag> <txp:rss_thumbpop category="<txp:custom_field name="thumb_list" />" mode="float" orderby="dateasc" pagepop="1" padheight="100" cols="1" /> </txp:asy_wondertag> </txp:if_custom_field>

I don’t receive any errors, I just get the “Click the thumbnail…” message with nothing underneath it. I do know there should be thumbnails because when I hard code the field name, it works as expected.

Thanks for any and all input…

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#5 2008-02-11 20:47:18

els
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From: The Netherlands
Registered: 2004-06-06
Posts: 7,458

Re: custom_field within article_custom tag

Are you sure your custom field ‘thumb_list’ holds the exact category name (so not the title)? The code looks all right to me.

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#6 2008-02-11 21:17:01

mercyskye
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Registered: 2008-02-11
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Re: custom_field within article_custom tag

@Els—thanks for your reply.

Here’s what I know:
The category for the pictures/thumbnails is: 2-07-08_images
In the article to be published, under my Advanced Options—>thumb_list field, I have: 2-07-08_images

As I said, if I remove the tag which calls the value of the custom field name and replace it with “2-07-08_images” this works fine. Also, based on your comment, I checked and the category name and title are the same.

It should be noted, also, that as I was clearing this up for publication, I replaced the tag with the hard-coded category name, but forgot to remove my “asy_wonderland” tags. When I went back to my webpage, it was still blank between the tags. Only when I removed them did anything show up (and then it showed up correctly, hard-coded though).

Is there an admin setting I’m missing?…

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#7 2008-02-11 21:34:48

redbot
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Registered: 2006-02-14
Posts: 1,410

Re: custom_field within article_custom tag

I suppose it is a simple typo but in your code are you using <txp:asy_wondertag> or <txp:asy_wonderland>?

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#8 2008-02-11 21:47:04

mercyskye
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Registered: 2008-02-11
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Re: custom_field within article_custom tag

@redbot—LOL. My message has the typo, sorry, but my code as quoted above is actually correct (wonderTAG). Sorry for that.

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#9 2008-02-11 21:53:42

mercyskye
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Registered: 2008-02-11
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Re: custom_field within article_custom tag

To all—please disregard. I figured this out (user error, as I suspected. :-p ).

Thanks,

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#10 2008-02-11 22:23:06

nardo
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From: tuvalahiti
Registered: 2004-04-22
Posts: 743

Re: custom_field within article_custom tag

txp:asy_wonderlandLOL
that should be a tag… maybe it can output DCA’s current location

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#11 2008-02-11 22:32:07

els
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From: The Netherlands
Registered: 2004-06-06
Posts: 7,458

Re: custom_field within article_custom tag

mercyskye wrote:

I figured this out (user error, as I suspected. :-p ).

Forgot to activate the plugin? ;)

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