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#1 2009-10-08 15:14:39

digigypsy

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Registered: 2009-10-08

Posts: 2

Biography Pages in TXP

hello, I have some questions for people more TXP savvy than me:

on creating a biography page on a TXP website:

1. how does TXP know to generate similar divs w/ bio data (picture, info) on a repeated, consistent basis? i’m assuming there is some sort of call function that does this?

2. how would i go about implementing this (general guidelines)?

3. any particular areas of TXP documentation that deal with this that I can learn from?

I am a novice as you can tell, so thanks for your time!

#2 2009-10-08 16:38:54

jm

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From: Missoula, MT

Registered: 2005-11-27

Posts: 1,746

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Re: Biography Pages in TXP

See this Textbook tutorial.

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#3 2009-10-08 17:22:43

uli

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Registered: 2006-08-15

Posts: 4,306

Re: Biography Pages in TXP

re 1.) There are chiefly two places where you define the bits of information you want to collect: In the article tag itself (breaktag, wraptag, form/listform, …), and in the form that is called by the article tag (the body text, the title, an excerpt, custom fields, date of publishing, author, article image etc.).
This would look like

<txp:article listform="mylist" wraptag="div" />

And in your form mylist all the elements you want your articles be represented by, e.g.

<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
<txp:article_image thumbnail="1" />
<txp:excerpt />

All these “switches” can also be set in an article tag when used as a container tag, e.g.:

<txp:article>
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
<txp:article_image thumbnail="1" />
<txp:excerpt />
</txp:article>

Please have a look at the Tag Reference Page for all the “native” TXP tags.

Last edited by uli (2009-10-08 17:25:59)

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#4 2009-10-08 17:56:18

digigypsy

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Registered: 2009-10-08

Posts: 2

Re: Biography Pages in TXP

jm: Thanks SO much for the info, I’ll read it and try to make heads and tails!

uli: Thank you as well, great explanation, will give this a shot.

Thanks VERY much to the both of you for the time and info, is extremely helpful to a person like me!

Jake