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#1 2009-10-03 10:33:31

orange900

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Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 3

Multiple articles on single page

I would like to display one or two perhaps even three articles on a single page, below is a simple example of what i’m trying to achieve.

<div id=“main”>article 1</div>

<div id=“sub”>
<div id=“sub_header1”>article 2</div>
<div id=“sub_header2”>article 3</div>
</div>

Thanks for your help

#2 2009-10-03 11:21:28

jsoo

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From: NC, USA

Registered: 2004-11-15

Posts: 1,793

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Re: Multiple articles on single page

What kind of page: front page, section front page, other? (give an example URL if those terms don’t click)

Where should the articles come from and how should they be sorted?

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#3 2009-10-03 12:04:59

orange900

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Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 3

Re: Multiple articles on single page

Thanks for replying. My apologies if I wasn’t clear in my first post, as you can probably tell i’m a bit new to the txp game, but what i should have said is you go to write an article, down in the far bottom right there is a dropdown for the user to attach the article to a certain page. Now i understand that, but im struggling to grasp how one would display two articles on the same page in different areas of the page like in the html code i previously posted as an example. I guessing forms maybe involved somehow but for the life of me am unable to figure it out.

Ps, if its any help i have a created a section called ‘Profile’ and a page also called ‘Profile’.

Once again thanks for your help.

Last edited by orange900 (2009-10-03 12:09:27)

#4 2009-10-03 13:04:36

jsoo

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From: NC, USA

Registered: 2004-11-15

Posts: 1,793

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Re: Multiple articles on single page

orange900 wrote:

you go to write an article, down in the far bottom right there is a dropdown for the user to attach the article to a certain page.

The section dropdown ?

I gather what you are asking for is to display multiple articles on the Profile front page, i.e. the page with the URL /?s=profile (messy URL mode) or /profile/ (default URL mode). The key is the context-sensitive behavior of the <txp:article /> tag: on a section front page it will display a list of all articles belonging to that section. The same tag will show just a single article on that article’s individual page (i.e., a URL such as /?id=123 in messy URL mode or /profile/123/this-article in default URL mode).

Am I on the right track?

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#5 2009-10-03 14:10:58

els

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: Multiple articles on single page

orange900 wrote:

<div id="main">article 1</div>

<div id="sub">
<div id="sub_header1">article 2</div>
<div id="sub_header2">article 3</div>
</div>

You’re probably looking for something like this (on your ‘profile’ page):

<txp:if_article_list>

<div id="main">
	<txp:article limit="1" form="form-for-first-article" />
</div>

<div id="sub">
	<txp:article limit="2" offset="1" form="form-for-next-articles" />
</div>

<txp:else />
	<txp:article form="form-for-single-article" />
</txp:if_article_list>

Form ‘form-for-next-articles’ could look like this:

<txp:if_first_article>
	<div id="sub_header1">
<txp:else />
	<div id="sub_header2">
</txp:if_first_article>
<h3><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></h3>
<txp:excerpt />
</div>

#6 2009-10-03 16:32:33

orange900

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Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 3

Re: Multiple articles on single page

Thank you both very much for you help, Els that was exactly what i was after. Thank you!