Alternate Text for Expired Article

claywso · 2009-04-29 12:14:43

www.WorkSmart.com – specifically the “Protection & Recovery: A Business Continuity Plan” section in the lower middle section.

On the home page, I have a form that displays an article using a custom form. However, the article posted there will occassionaly expire, and I’d like to show a different static article there when that happens.

How can I utilize the if_expires tag to show a completely different article?

I might just be thinking about this incorrectly, and any guidance would be appreciated.

colak · 2009-04-29 13:08:01

maybe this would work

<txp:variable name="hasarticles" value='<txp:article_custom category="yourcategory" limit="1" />' /> - any other attributes
<txp:if_variable name="hasarticles" value="">
<txp:article_custom id="id of the alternative article" />
<txp:else />
<txp:article_custom "your attributes here"  />
</txp:if_variable>

claywso · 2009-04-29 13:08:44

sweet – thanks. i’ll give it a shot.

claywso · 2009-04-29 17:29:14

worked perfectly. thank you.

immarabi · 2009-05-04 20:55:10

Hi. I have a similar request. I have a list of the upcoming events on my front page that are future articles. My article form uses the <txp:if_expired> tag to display only articles that have not expired yet. What I want to do is display a message if there are no upcoming events.

I tried to modify the code above, this is what I have that doesn’t work.

<txp:variable name="hasarticles" value='<txp:article_custom form="customevents" pgonly="1" section="events" sort="Posted asc" />' />
<txp:if_variable name="hasarticles" value="">
<txp:article_custom id="10" />
<txp:else />
<txp:article_custom form="customevents" pgonly="1" section="events" sort="Posted asc" />
</txp:if_variable>

the_ghost · 2009-05-04 21:36:23

Are you sure your form default contains tags to display article_id=10? Because you’ve suppressed defining form in your <txp:article_custom id="10" />, than default form is used.
Can you post here tag-trace? (Enable debugging mode in options and post here site’s code here)

els · 2009-05-04 21:59:50

immarabi wrote:

My article form uses the <txp:if_expired> tag to display only articles that have not expired yet.

I think in that case your variable’s value will always be empty… try using another form in the article_custom tag here: value='<txp:article_custom form="customevents" pgonly="1" section="events" sort="Posted asc" />'

Oh, and article_custom doesn’t have an attribute pgonly.

Edit: and add time="future".

Last edited by els (2009-05-04 22:02:13)

immarabi · 2009-05-05 04:03:23

Thanks for the help, I am getting closer.

here are the line on my page template. The problem is that when there is an event, the event does not display. I used the form customevents to display events in a separate list, so that form is not the problem. It is only when I try to use the variable tag, that things go bananas.

<txp:variable name="hasarticles" value='<txp:article_custom form="customevents" section="events" sort="Posted asc" time="future" />' />
<txp:if_variable name="hasarticles" value="">

<txp:else />
<txp:article_custom id="10" form="noevents" />
</txp:if_variable>


and here is the results of the debugging

<txp:variable name="hasarticles" value='<txp:article_custom form="customevents" pgonly="1" section="events" sort="Posted asc" />' />
		[attribute 'value']
		<txp:article_custom form="customevents" pgonly="1" section="events" sort="Posted asc" />
			[SQL (0.001417875289917): select *, unix_timestamp(Posted) as uPosted, unix_timestamp(Expires) as uExpires, unix_timestamp(LastMod) as uLastMod from textpattern where 1=1 and Status = 4 and Posted <= now() and Section IN ('events') order by Posted asc limit 0, 10]
			[article 1]
			[SQL (0.00038003921508789): select Form from txp_form where name='customevents']
			[Form: customevents]
			<txp:if_expired>
				[<txp:if_expired>: true]
			</txp:if_expired>
			[article 5]
			[Form: customevents]
			<txp:if_expired>
				[<txp:if_expired>: true]
			</txp:if_expired>
		[/attribute]
	<txp:if_variable name="hasarticles" value="">
		[<txp:if_variable name="hasarticles" value="">: false]
		<txp:article_custom id="10" form="noevents" />
			[SQL (0.0015099048614502): select *, unix_timestamp(Posted) as uPosted, unix_timestamp(Expires) as uExpires, unix_timestamp(LastMod) as uLastMod from textpattern where 1=1 and Status >= 4 and Posted <= now() and ID IN (10) order by Posted desc limit 0, 10]
			[article 10]
			[SQL (0.00032997131347656): select Form from txp_form where name='noevents']
			[Form: noevents]
			<txp:body />
	</txp:if_variable>


Thanks in advance for all your help.

els · 2009-05-05 06:58:14

I wrote:

I think in that case your variable’s value will always be empty…

Remove the form attribute:

<txp:variable name="hasarticles" value='<txp:article_custom section="events" sort="Posted asc" time="future" />' />

immarabi · 2009-05-06 02:42:23

this is what finally worked. Thanks for helping.

<txp:variable name="hasarticles" value='<txp:article_custom section="events" time="future" />' />
<txp:if_variable name="hasarticles" value="">
<txp:article_custom id="10" form="noevents" />
<txp:else />
<txp:article_custom form="customevents" section="events" sort="Posted asc" time="future" />
</txp:if_variable>

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