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#1 2009-09-18 06:23:44

kostas45

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2007-11-08

Posts: 61

[request] Admin-side paging in public-side?

Hi,

Just wondering, could the default TXP admin-side paging functionality for articles, images, files (<Prev Page Next>, View [XX] per page) be offered as a public-side plugin?

I cannot believe this is not considered before, so I might be missing something essential (link mode maybe?).

Thanks,
Kostas

#2 2009-09-18 06:51:55

jakob

Admin

From: Germany

Registered: 2005-01-20

Posts: 4,726

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Re: [request] Admin-side paging in public-side?

You can use txp:article to display your list in conjunction with txp:newer and txp:older to page long lists of articles. The attribute limit="XX" allows you to control how many should appear on each page. If you want the user to be able to set the number per page, you could use chs_cookie or perhaps jquery.cookie to handle this via a cookie.

Off the top of my head, you’ll need to make a drop-down select manually that saves the cookie, then at the top of your page, test to see if the cookie exists and if so use that value as a tag-in-tag in your txp:article tag. If I recall correctly chs_cookie has if_cookie and default value tags that you can use for this.

Finally, maybe you can achieve something similar using txp:variable, I’m not sure.

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#3 2009-09-21 05:45:33

kostas45

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2007-11-08

Posts: 61

Re: [request] Admin-side paging in public-side?

Jacob, thanks for responding :-)

However, the question remains:
Can the default TXP admin-side paging functionality for articles, images and files be offered as a public-side plugin?

Any thoughts anyone?

Cheers,
Kostas

#4 2009-09-21 06:06:55

TheEric

Plugin Author

From: Wyoming

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 566

Re: [request] Admin-side paging in public-side?

It sure can be. Make it worth a plugin-writers time, and it can be yours quickly.