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article_custom and pagination
Hey all
That dreaded question that has seemingly cropped up on the forums again and again.
Now the likely cause of this is that I have approached the problem wrong but was wondering if there was a solution to my approach or if it would be altogether preferable to just take a new approach altogether.
Premise is thus. I have a site with an Events (called events) section and want to differentiate between future and past events.
I have created a category called Diary (called diary) which will provide the context to trigger an article request for future events and a child category of diary called Past Events (called past-events) which will trigger an article request for – you guessed it – past events.
Now we all know article_custom can’t work with newer/older or ob1_pagination but if I use plain old article to generate an article list using a form then it can’t seems to show future or past events because of the contextual search it thinks that I am searching against articles featuring the category diary or past-events.
Have I just been a tool in the approach I’ve taken?
Devising sub-sections of a site by using categories is probably not the sharpest of solutions but it is the only way I could see of creating a sub-navigation to trigger different article requests. I can get the articles I want using article_custom (basically the same request against the events section but calling future and past articles (each event is an article) depending on the category – diary or past-events – called) but I cannot get these to paginate.
Anyone suggest how I might
- improve my approach, or
- get pagination to work with
article_custom
Have I made something relatively straightforward really complicated?
Am I missing something obvious?
Should I consider getting involved in a land war in Asia?
Cheers in advance my dears,
Cole
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Re: article_custom and pagination
An idea — an ugly hack, but might work. Put this directly above the article tag that you want to ignore category context:
<txp:php>
global $pretext;
$pretext['c'] = '';
</txp:php>Would be a good idea to restore $pretext['c'] immediately afterwards.
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Re: article_custom and pagination
Instead of using a category, how about appending a custom variable to the link, e.g. ?archive=1 then using one of adi_gps / rah_if_gps / smd_if / chs_urlvar to test if the url variable exists and if so to output txp:article with time="past" (or however you’re doing it) and reverse the sort order.
If you don’t mind hacking in a special case into the htaccess, you can neaten the url so that you get /events/ normally and /events/archive/ for the archive:
RewriteRule ^events/archive/?$ index.php?s=events&archive=1 [L]This is how I used to do it in the days before the expired timestamp existed.
Last edited by jakob (2009-07-09 10:43:09)
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