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Display text when no articles are available for a certain section?
I am currently designing for a newspaper website that uses Textpattern.
They want it so that the section fronts only display the most recent issue. I figured out how to do this with custom field, but sometimes there are no articles for a certain section in that issue, and the section page will be blank.
How can I make it so that the sections with no matching articles can have some text on it that says something like “No available articles”?
Thanks.
Josie
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Re: Display text when no articles are available for a certain section?
chh_if_data should do it… but there might be a solution using just txp tags.
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#3 2008-12-07 20:52:45
- els
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Re: Display text when no articles are available for a certain section?
colak wrote:
… but there might be a solution using just txp tags.
Of course there is (in 4.0.7) :) What is the code you are using on the section front page?
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I am using a simple article tag right now:
<txp:article form="section-list" issue="<txp:output_form form="issue"/>"/>
And I am also using 4.0.7.
I don’t mind using a plugin, but I would much rather keep it simple by using only textpattern default tags.
Last edited by xjosie729 (2008-12-07 21:38:51)
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#5 2008-12-07 21:47:33
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Re: Display text when no articles are available for a certain section?
<txp:variable name="if_articles" value='<txp:article issue=''<txp:output_form form="issue" />'' />' />
<txp:if_variable name="if_articles" value="">
<p>No recent articles for this issue.</p>
<txp:else />
<txp:article form="section-list" issue='<txp:output_form form="issue"/>' />
</txp:if_variable>Not tested, and it’s new for me as well, so let me know if it works.
Last edited by els (2008-12-07 21:53:34)
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Re: Display text when no articles are available for a certain section?
It works perfectly. Thank you so much!
Josie
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Re: Display text when no articles are available for a certain section?
I used a custom field named “issue”.
I can’t find it now but I read somewhere on the FAQ that it’s possible to use the name of the custom field as an attribute for the article tag in order to filter the articles.
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#8 2008-12-08 02:26:31
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Re: Display text when no articles are available for a certain section?
xjosie729 wrote:
I used a custom field named “issue”.
Of course, I had forgotten that. It’s getting late here ;-)
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