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#13 2009-06-27 20:45:26

matthijs

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Registered: 2008-12-15

Posts: 32

Re: Which page and tags are used to display categories

Like I said: article_custom can be finetuned extremely well.
E.g. with more (comma separated) categories.

You are right, but in this case I don’t want to have to hardcode all categories in there, as they might be changed and there will be added more. I’ll remember it in case I do need it some day

Els wrote:

Maybe you will understand them then, but the rest of us will be just as confused as you are now… ;)

maybe you are right, it’s perfect already, don’t change anything :)

Anyway, thanks for all the assistance so far, without your help I would have lost even more hair by now

#14 2009-06-27 22:02:01

uli

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From: Cologne

Registered: 2006-08-15

Posts: 4,306

Re: Which page and tags are used to display categories

matthijs wrote:

I don’t want to have to hardcode all categories in there

As long as txp:category_list doesn’t come with a link=“0” attribute we have to work with the one txp:category offers.

Where you need the list of categories, use <txp:category_list exclude="whatever" break=", " form="cat_as_text" />, your form cat_as_text containing just <txp:category /> which silently contains link="0", the tag’s default.

Last edited by uli (2009-06-27 22:19:31)

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#15 2009-06-28 07:41:22

matthijs

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Registered: 2008-12-15

Posts: 32

Re: Which page and tags are used to display categories

As long as txp:category_list doesn’t come with a link=“0” attribute we have to work with the one txp:category offers.

@Uli: I am not sure what you are trying to say?

What I use now, and what seems to work, is Els’ code. This is what I have in my “project archive” page:

<txp:if_category>
	<!-- this is page /projects/?c=category-name -->
	<txp:article_custom section="projects" category='<txp:category />' wraptag="ul" break="li">
	<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
	</txp:article_custom>
<txp:else />
	<txp:category_list parent="projects" section="projects-archive" exclude="projects" break="li" wraptag="ul"  />
</txp:if_category>

This is what I have in my home page (that’s my default page/template):

<txp:if_category>
	<!-- this is page /category/category-name -->
	<div id="content">
	<txp:article_custom section="projects" category='<txp:category />' wraptag="ul" break="li">
		<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
	</txp:article_custom>
	</div>
<txp:else />
	<!-- this is the actual front page -->
 	<div id="home">
         <!-- more home page specific stuff -->
	</div>
</txp:if_category>

And then finally this is what I have in my projects page

<txp:article form="default" limit="1" />

The only problem (?) I have is that I get this warning when visiting /projects-archive/:

Tag error: -> Textpattern Notice: Page template projects-archive does not contain a txp:article tag on line 504
textpattern/publish.php:504 trigger_error()
index.php:33 textpattern()

It all feels a bit hackerish, and I’m not finished yet as I also have to create some sidebar menu’s on those pages/urls displaying specific items for each page (ahum, meaning webpage/URL, not txp page). But I’m a lot farther now.

In a normal situation, I would just do something like:

mysite.com/
mysite.com/projects/
mysite.com/projects/castles/
mysite.com/projects/castles/some-castle-project

But I’m afraid I would have to rely on htaccess rewrite rules to get that done in txp (as far as I know), something I’d rather not do, considering future maintainance

#16 2009-06-28 11:31:52

els

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: Which page and tags are used to display categories

matthijs wrote:

The only problem (?) I have is that I get this warning when visiting /projects-archive/:

The warning won’t be there when you set production status to ‘live’. A workaround is to add <txp:article pgonly="1" limit="1" /> somewhere on your page template for section projects-archive. It won’t display anything, but it will get rid of the warning.

BTW you can have URLs like /section-name/category-name/ and /section-name/category-name/article-title/ with the plugin gbp_permanent_links.

#17 2009-06-28 11:59:52

uli

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From: Cologne

Registered: 2006-08-15

Posts: 4,306

Re: Which page and tags are used to display categories

matthijs wrote:

uli wrote: As long as txp:category_list doesn’t come with a link=“0” attribute we have to work with the one txp:category offers.

@Uli: I am not sure what you are trying to say?

A tag’s link attribute set to 0 makes it output plain text where it would otherwise render “linked” text.

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