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#13 2008-06-26 13:36:38
- uli
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
I’ve never developed one: How can I (or somebody using a multilingual site) profit from applying txp:text?
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#14 2008-06-26 14:43:33
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
You could add strings to the language file for often used – longish – text items and call them with <txp:text />.
For example if you tend to use this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth a lot, you add this string
truth => this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truthand wherever you want it to appear call it with
<txp:text item="truth" />;)
(You’d have to load the language file into the db of course, or directly add it to the db.)
The advantage is indeed more obvious when using the MLP pack.
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#15 2008-06-26 15:07:13
- uli
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
Ah, alright, I see! Will keep this in mind, can come in handy :)
Does it also have access to other text strings?
Edit BTW, a smart way to change truths really quickly and globally ;))
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#16 2008-06-26 15:23:46
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
uli wrote:
Ah, alright, I see! Will keep this in mind, can come in handy :)
To be honest, I’ve never found a use for it ;)
Does it also have access to other text strings?
As far as I know you can use all strings in the lang table: e.g. <txp:text item="need_details" /> will display Inevitably, we need a few details :)
BTW, a smart way to change truths really quickly and globally ;))
Hmm… I’m beginning to see whole new possibilities. Change your mind site wide…
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#17 2008-06-26 15:39:23
- masa
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
I’m still puzzled. I’d rather use a form for this kind of snippet, as forms can be easily edited from the backend.
Textbook doesn’t even mention where the strings are stored.
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
masa wrote:
Textbook doesn’t even mention where the strings are stored.
It uses the language file (or if you push your own strings onto $textarray) e.g., <txp:text item="tab_presentation"/>.
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#19 2008-06-26 15:54:00
- uli
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
Els wrote:
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Don’t even need to leave values blank intentionally, you can change everything in the wink of an eye ;)
To be honest, I’ve never found a use for it ;)
I’m always good for mis-using “intended uses”. My mind’s spinning wildly: Put paths to images in the values (e.g. for diagrams), and you have language specific illustrations. Not that I’ve ever needed this, I just store such things in the depths of my brain cells. Mere luxury ;) But can come in handy (mantra against forgetfulness ;)
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
Brain cells? Are we supposed to have those things? Don’t tell the politicians about this. ;)
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#21 2008-06-26 16:44:24
- uli
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
jm wrote:
It uses the language file (or if you push your own strings onto $textarray) e.g.,
<txp:text item="tab_presentation"/>.
I’ve a gut feeling this can’t be the intended use, in terms of “originally intended”. As Martin states, what you and Els/Steve have mentioned here isn’t even documented.
I’m wondering at all because I’ve found this snippet <txp:section_list default_title='<txp:text item="home" />' include_default="1" wraptag="ul" break="li"> at a highly official place, with the shiny (almost unused) txp:text tag right in the middle. … Why that?
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
That may be a simple example of the new tag parser in action allowing tags within tags.
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#23 2008-06-26 17:19:58
- net-carver
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
Els wrote:
As far as I know you can use all strings in the lang table: e.g.
<txp:text item="need_details" />will display Inevitably, we need a few details :)
Not quite. On the public face of your site, only those strings from the txp_langs table that are marked as public or common will get loaded. If you try outputting an admin-side or setup string you’ll just get its name, not the associated text.
Uli
You’re right about the possibility of using this for language-specific stuff. That’s basically what the MLP Pack does with its concept of snippets.
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Re: When creating a site with TXP, I rarely find myself...
uli wrote:
I’ve a gut feeling this can’t be the intended use, in terms of “originally intended”. As Martin states, what you and Els/Steve have mentioned here isn’t even documented.
The text function feeds the item value into gTxt(), which is used to output values from the lang table ($textarray). gTxt() doesn’t care if item is a valid key in $textarray though, so it’ll output whatever you feed it. (As far as I can tell at least – net-carver is the gTxt() pro around here!)
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