Processing excerpts

dave halliday · 2008-05-02 05:00:58

I am very much a TXP newbie but have not seen what I am looking for through searching or reading the FAQs. I have a copy of Textpattern Sollutions and didn’t see anything in that.

I am building this website with TXP: http://www.crossroadsgrocery.com

I have a section (Origins) and plan a number of articles in that section.

Rather than have the articles form a very long section, I would like to have a bunch of short excerpts and the user can either

#1) – click on a “Read More” or on the title of the excerpt and that article would expand out into the full article.

or

#2) – click on a “Read More” or on the title of the excerpt and have that article open in a new browser window.

I have the suspicion that this should be straightforward but I’m missing it for now. I looked through the plug-ins and these seemed more oriented towards generating excerpts.

Thanks you!
Dave

Ruhh · 2008-05-02 05:15:07

You can use a few TXP tags to achieve that:

<txp:if_article_list>
<txp:if_excerpt>
<txp:excerpt />
<a href="<txp:permlink />#body">Read More</a>
<txp:else />
<txp:body />
</txp:if_excerpt>
<txp:else />
<txp:if_excerpt>
<txp:excerpt />
</txp:if_excerpt>
<txp:body />
</txp:if_article_list>

This would go in your default form.

Last edited by Ruhh (2008-05-02 05:15:50)

dave halliday · 2008-05-03 05:37:05

Where should these tags be placed. I tried putting them in several places in the <!— center —> section of the default page presentation code and didn’t get the desired effect. (didn’t get any effect actually.)

The article in question does have an excerpt that I entered.

Many thanks!
Dave

thebombsite · 2008-05-03 10:55:07

They don’t go into a page template, they go into a form template and that form is then called by the <txp:article /> or <txp:article_custom /> tag in your page template using the “form” attribute like so – <txp:article form="formName" />.

If your <txp:article /> or <txp:article_custom /> tags aren’t using the “form” attribute they are calling the “default” form template so that is where you should make the appropriate alterations or create a new form and add the “form” attribute to the tags.

Last edited by thebombsite (2008-05-03 10:59:25)

dave halliday · 2008-05-04 04:49:17

Thanks to all of you — got it working tonight and it’s great! Forms are cool as I can have it running on just the sections that I want and not have it affect the entire site…

http://www.crossroadsgrocery.com/origins/

Now, is there a quick way to do a “Read Less” option?

I can probably figure this out but I am guessing that there is a code snippet floating around and would appreciate having it sent my way.

Thanks again!
Dave

ruud · 2008-05-04 09:08:26

Read less? Visitors can just stop reading if they’ve had enough ;)

thebombsite · 2008-05-04 21:56:58

Well that depends on what you mean by “read less”. If you mean someone is reading the full, individual article and you want a link back to the “frontpage” of a section you could use something like <a href="<txp:site_url /><txp:section />">Back</a> or variations of it depending on where you need to get back to.

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