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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
janvi wrote:
Need to study a little bit more theese forms, seems so complicated.
Forms (asidde from the article type) are really just general purpose storage areas that you can call in a modular manner.
An article form is just a display mechanism for how you want your articles presented, so you could do something simple like this…
<div class="story">
<h1><txp:title /></h1>
<txp:body/>
< /div>or complicated like this…
<txp:if_individual_article>
<div class="<txp:wet_if_sticky>sticky </txp:wet_if_sticky>individual story">
<txp:zem_ir group="headline"><txp:title /></txp:zem_ir>
<div class="storyImage"><txp:output_form form="details-availability"/><txp:output_form form="details-general"/><txp:article_image /></div>
<div class="blurb"><txp:excerpt /></div>
<txp:body/>
<txp:else/>
<div class="<txp:wet_if_sticky>sticky </txp:wet_if_sticky>list <txp:if_first_article>first <txp:else/>following</txp:if_first_article> story">
<txp:zem_ir group="subhead"><txp:title /></txp:zem_ir><span class="posted"><txp:zem_ir group="sidehead"> <txp:posted /></txp:zem_ir></span>
<txp:permlink class="imageLink">
<div class="storyThumb"><txp:output_form form="details-availability"/><txp:hak_article_thumb /></div>
</txp:permlink>
<txp:excerpt/>
</txp:if_individual_article>
<txp:output_form form="page-button-list" />
</div>Notice this one uses a lot of conditionals to handle different circumstances
Last edited by mrdale (2009-06-17 22:28:58)
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
mrdale wrote:
<txp:wet_if_sticky>What’s not to love about Textpattern tags ;)
We Love TXP . TXP Themes . TXP Tags . TXP Planet . TXP Make
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#16 2009-06-19 08:50:16
- janvi
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
Hmm ..
So the implementation of the forms in my source is simply excerpts of the layout as I have today? or ..? (Given that I based the layout of an html version of my theme.)
In this case, do I have to delete the part I add to my forms from my ‘page_default’?
Can it be compared with the wordpress themes? In these, you can cut sections and move to eg. sidebar.php, header.php, comments.php… just wondering, as my field is php not ‘‘sneeze creepy tags’ :)
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#17 2009-06-19 11:28:07
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
This article by Destry will help. Don’t forget part 2.
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#18 2009-06-19 13:56:18
- janvi
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
Nice, I’ll try this tonight.
And another thing, can I use xhtml, java inside the forms?
As I understand pr now it’s like this most of..
I have to use:
<t xp:output_form form=“form_name” />
Insetead of.. (like I’m used to do..)
incude(‘folder/file.php’);
True?
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
mrdale wrote:
Here’s a good reason. Textpattern is inside out.
Stop thinking about a website font-end as a theme that you bend to your will, and start thinking about turbocharging your site with textpattern. Don’t build a site in TXP, build your site and put TXP inside. That way the world’s your oyster.
Just use TXP as a delivery mechanism for the content you want to be dynamic. Like here, here or here
some very nice sites! well done.
I am very intrigued by your description of “Textpattern is inside out” and “turbocharg textpattern”… With one of the CMS that i use now, EE, this is exactly how I use that tool. I was looking over the weekend on how i could apply my EE workflow to TxP. EG. Can i edit the various pieces; Pages, Forms directly outside of TxP… or are they hardwired into the DB. Form what you describe it sounds like you create flat files and then inset TxP code into them. Please elaborate on your workflow.
…. texted postive
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
bici wrote:
Form what you describe it sounds like you create flat files and then inset TxP code into them.
There really isn’t any big difference in database nor a flat file. You can edit both directly, DB just can hold thousands of “files”.
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
Gocom wrote:
There really isn’t any big difference in database nor a flat file. You can edit both directly, DB just can hold thousands of “files”.
Cool. Where in the directory structure are the flat files stored? Can I specify a location? ( i am unable to find the Page for the Default site that gets loaded upon the installation)
…. texted postive
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
bici wrote:
Cool. Where in the directory structure are the flat files stored? Can I specify a location? ( i am unable to find the Page for the Default site that gets loaded upon the installation)
Directory? Flat files? As I said, in the DB.
Last edited by Gocom (2009-06-29 15:20:42)
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
Gocom wrote:
There really isn’t any big difference in database nor a flat file. You can edit both directly, DB just can hold thousands of “files”.
Wow that’s new to me. On a stock install there’s no way I know of to edit “pages” or “css” files from a directory. do tell!
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Re: Help me with the 'election'. Wordpress or TextPattern?
mrdale wrote:
Wow that’s new to me. On a stock install there’s no way I know of to edit “pages” or “css” files from a directory. do tell!
Who said about anything about directory. I just said you can directly edit db if you want. There really isn’t a difference in flat file nor in DB.
As your file system, so does DB take commands.
Last edited by Gocom (2009-06-29 15:25:43)
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