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#16 2008-09-22 19:10:06
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Re: sections link straight to the article
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Re: sections link straight to the article
I meant what should happen when a visitor arrives at your /about page – what do you want them to see? Then we can help you figure out how to markup your TXP about page template….
As to your latest question:
Section list – see the active_class=“class name” part, and set your active class in your CSS accordingly.
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Re: sections link straight to the article
One thing I’ve done in the past is to create a custom field called “Section_Home_Page”, you populate it with yes or no then you can use
<txp:if_article_list>
<txp:article Section_Home_Page="yes" limit="1" />
</txp:if_article_list>
<txp:if_individual_article>
<txp:article limit="1" />
</txp:if_individual_article>which will display the article marked as “Section_Home_page” when you are on an article list (section page) otherwise it will show the regular article. This allows for /section/title urls. which I prefer over /title urls.
I use glz_custom_fields to make the custom field a simple checkbox. Works pretty well.
It would be nice to be able to select an article based on url-title so you could have a pattern that an article with the same name as the section gets used as the section home page (there’s probably a plugin that will do that, I haven’t looked)
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Re: sections link straight to the article
jstubbs wrote:
I meant what should happen when a visitor arrives at your /about page – what do you want them to see? Then we can help you figure out how to markup your TXP about page template….
As to your latest question:
Section list – see the active_class=“class name” part, and set your active class in your CSS accordingly.
When a visitor arrives at my /about page some text is to be shown. The same goes for /portfolio, /contact etc…so I think I successfully sorted it out.
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Re: sections link straight to the article
the active_class is working great! I did this:
<txp:section_list active_class=“section_list_active” wraptag=“ul” break=“li” />
with the following style:
.section_list_active {
font-weight: bold;
}
I was wondering how I could have a given section “active” as default…can it actually be done?
thanks
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Re: sections link straight to the article
my last questio is how can i redirect from default page to a given page? thanks
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just for the records those are the page template and form display:
http://www.theartofweb.net/txt/textpattern_page.txt
http://www.theartofweb.net/txt/displayarticle.txt
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theartofweb wrote:
my last questio is how can i redirect from default page to a given page? thanks
Not quite sure I understand the question – can you give an example of what you mean?
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suppose my site is www.mysite.com i would like to be redirected at www.mysite.com/about
in a nutshell i do not want any default page
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Why don’t you just have your About details on the front page?
1. In the Sections tab, assign your about section to “On front page?” == yes
2. In your page (or create a form and then use the output_form tag to place it in your page), use something like this:
<txp:section_list sections="overview, installing, broadcasting, listening, developer, donate" default_title="about" active_class="section_list_active" wraptag="ul" break="li" />That might do what you want.
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Another option: redirect from the .htaccess, or use zem_redirect (pro) (a txp plugin). it’s linked somewhere here in the forum… but I’m in “lazy mode”.
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jstubbs wrote:
bq. Why don’t you just have your About details on the front page?
1. In the Sections tab, assign your about section to “On front page?” == yes
2. In your page (or create a form and then use the output_form tag to place it in your page), use something like this:
bc. <txp:section_list sections=“overview, installing, broadcasting, listening, developer, donate” default_title=“about” active_class=“section_list_active” wraptag=“ul” break=“li” />
That might do what you want.
I do have about details on the front page. I’d like to set active_class=“section_list_active” as default for “about” section in the left sidebar.
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Take another look at the code I posted above, you might find that it does what you want. Have you tried the code yet to see if it works for you?
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yeah I did try it, yet it didn’t work. I am thinking of making a simple redirect hatml page and set default section to load it :-(
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Can you tell us why it does not work? I think I still don’t quite know what you want :-)
If you just want to redirect to /about then think its best to follow maniqui’s advice and use .htaccess or zem_redirect.
But if you just want your about section to be your front page, what I showed you above should work, albeit perhaps with a tweak here or there.
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