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#16 2008-03-05 23:07:40
- els
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Re: Plugin search: nested section & article list
No, I didn’t think it would :( As far as I know it is not possible to get nested lists to work properly with if_different. You always end up with one or more closing list tags at the beginning of the list. I have used workarounds like this:
<txp:if_first_article>
<li style="display:none"><ul style="display:none">
<li style="display:none"></li> <!-- not sure if this second line is actually needed for validation? -->
</txp:if_first_article>
<txp:if_different>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<txp:section title="1" />
<ul>
</txp:if_different>
<li><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></li>
<txp:if_last_article>
</ul>
</li>
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Re: Plugin search: nested section & article list
thanks, Ill try that tomorrow and let you know how it goes.
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#18 2008-03-06 00:36:30
- redbot
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Re: Plugin search: nested section & article list
Ok dl33,
as I said I knew it was going to be tricky… anyway here is my last try: at least in my head it should work now (hope not to be too optimistic)
in your page form put
<ul><txp:article_custom form="my_form" sort="section" /></ul>in your article form (my_form)
<txp:if_different>
<txp:output_form form="first_article" />
<txp:section /><ul>
</txp:if_different>
<li><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></li>
<txp:if_last_article>
</ul></li>
</txp:if_last_article>…and in your “first_article” form
<txp:if_first_article>
<li>
<txp:else />
</ul></li><li>
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Re: Plugin search: nested section & article list
Thanks a lot guys. In the end I ended up using Els’ workaround…
However, have a look what I just found http://textbook.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Txp:if_different#Example_2:_Build_an_indented_list_of_article_titles_grouped_by_section
I think this could have been done a lot simpler…
EDIT: Nope, you get the same problem with the double sections… I’ll just stick with the extra ul at the front… Thanks, guys.
Last edited by dl33 (2008-03-06 12:28:59)
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#20 2008-03-06 16:20:09
- els
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Re: Plugin search: nested section & article list
dl33 wrote:
However, have a look what I just found (…) I think this could have been done a lot simpler…
As long as you don’t need list tags around the field that is inside the if_different tags, there is no problem. But ever since the if_different tag was introduced I have been trying to get it working with lists, and I never found a way other than the workaround I mentioned above.
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Re: Plugin search: nested section & article list
I am using Els’ code now: (It works great:-) Thanks)
<txp:if_first_article>
<li style="display:none"><ul style="display:none">
<li style="display:none"></li> <!-- not sure if this second line is actually needed for validation? -->
</txp:if_first_article>
<txp:if_different>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<txp:section title="1" />
<ul>
</txp:if_different>
<li><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></li>
<txp:if_last_article>
</ul>
</li>
</txp:if_last_article>Is it possible to exclude one or more sections from being listed in this menu?
Last edited by dl33 (2008-03-07 23:33:28)
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#22 2008-03-08 00:38:20
- redbot
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Re: Plugin search: nested section & article list
You can specify the sections you want to include in the article_custom tag adding a “section” attribute followed by a comma separated list of sections. like this:
<txp:article_custom form="my_form" sort="section" section="section1, section2, section3" />If you really need to exclude some sections you should operate in your article form embracing it in a “if_article_section” tag like this:
<txp:if_article_section name="section4, section5">
<txp:else />
<txp:if_first_article>
<li style="display:none"><ul style="display:none">
<li style="display:none"></li> <!-- not sure if this second line is actually needed for validation? -->
</txp:if_first_article>
<txp:if_different>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<txp:section title="1" />
<ul>
</txp:if_different>
<li><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></li>
<txp:if_last_article>
</ul>
</li>
</txp:if_last_article>
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Re: Plugin search: nested section & article list
Hi again, I have to adapt the code ever so slightly since my client had some new requirements. I am wondering whether there is a way to use a similar approach with categories instead of sections. (The URL should then be /category/title/) What do I have to change in order to get this working?
Another problem is that the category/section name should not actually be visible. I tried putting   in the place of <txp:section title="1" /> but that only produces one big list instead of three smaller ones.
The code I have now is:
<txp:if_first_article><li style="display:none"><ul><li> </li></txp:if_first_article>
<txp:if_different></ul></li><li><txp:section title="1" /><ul></txp:if_different>
<li><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></li>
<txp:if_last_article></ul></li></txp:if_last_article>and actually referencing this form:
<ul id="menu"><txp:article_custom form="menu" sort="section asc" section="1_was,2_wer,3_wann" /></ul>What do I have to change in order to get this working with categories and without the category names?
The code produces would look like this:
<ul>
<li><ul><!--First Category-->
<li>Title</li>
<li>Title</li>
</ul></li>
<li><ul><!--Second Category-->
<li>Title</li>
<li>Title</li>
</ul></li>
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Re: Plugin search: nested section & article list
Same code than yours, but edit it that it looks like:
<txp:if_first_article><li style="display:none"><ul><li> </li></txp:if_first_article><txp:if_different></ul></li><li><!-- <txp:category1 title="1" /> --><ul></txp:if_different><li><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></li><txp:if_last_article></ul></li></txp:if_last_article><ul id="menu"><txp:article_custom form="menu" sort="category1 asc" section="1_was,2_wer,3_wann" /></ul>Offline
Re: Plugin search: nested section & article list
Sweet, thanks… A lot simpler than I thought it was… Now how can I reflect this change in the URL? I moved all the articles into one section “Content” so the url now reads /de/content/test-article (I am using the Multi Language Plugin.)
Preferably I would like the URL to be something along the lines of /de/category-name/test-article . Is this possible or do I simply have to live with what I have now?
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Re: Plugin search: nested section & article list
If you want use categories, the you need some link plugin, gbp_permanent_links as Textpattern doesn’t handle category based clean urls. TXP should, but clean urls were never actually finnished. In the core there is traces of a /category/title rule, but it’s not working, coz it’s only ghost from old times :)
Last edited by Gocom (2008-03-19 00:43:49)
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