Pagination problem

korpulente · 2009-10-14 19:27:34

I must be a total dork since I can’t figure this out, but please help me out.

What I need:
An unordered list displaying links to the latest articles in my news section. So far so good. However, I also need some pagination that enables the user to “go back” and get a list of the previous articles, before those shown up front.

My problematic code, inserted into a page:

<txp:if_article_list>
<txp:article_custom section="news" status="live" limit="9" form="news-links" sort="Posted desc" wraptag="ul" />

<a href="<txp:older />" class="prev-news">Older news</a>
</txp:if_article_list>

The article links show up correctly, but the pagination is flawed. The “Older news” link is shown at all times, even when it has no function, ie. when there are no older news to show.

What did I do wrong?

jsoo · 2009-10-14 19:35:56

The older and newer tags provide pagination for the article tag. Unfortunately this doesn’t work with article_custom.

korpulente · 2009-10-14 19:52:52

Ouch… Can I achieve a functionality like the one I tried to make with article_custom, without this tag?

jsoo · 2009-10-14 20:36:22

Is this list to appear only in the news section and/or on the home page, or is it to appear in other sections? If it’s only for the news section you can simply use article instead of article_custom. For the home page you could do likewise but only if news is the only section whose articles you want on the home page (or if you don’t mind articles from a mix of sections in this list). If it’s to appear in all sections you will have to use article_custom, in which case you could paginate with javascript, or a plugin such as chh_article_custom which works with pagination.

korpulente · 2009-10-14 20:56:08

I need to display the list in multiple sections.

One acceptable workaround is to just show the pagination in the news section, which could then use article, and then use article_custom to pull in into the other sections.

However, it still doesn’t work:

<txp:article form="news-col" status="live" limit="9" wraptag="ul" />

 <txp:if_article_list> 
 <a href="<txp:older showalways="0" />" class="prev-news">Older news</a>
 </txp:if_article_list>

The damn pagination link is displayed at all times. :-/

els · 2009-10-14 21:15:01

korpulente wrote:

it still doesn’t work

It’s working all right ;) showalways="0" just doesn’t work if you use the <txp:older /> tag like that. You’ll have to use Example 1, or use variable and if_variable to check for content.

BTW, showalways="0" is the default value, so you can leave it out.

jsoo · 2009-10-14 21:21:49

You don’t need to specify showalways="0", because that is the default. Is there another article tag on this page?

korpulente · 2009-10-14 21:49:07

Yes of course it’s working, but I’m not able to have it do things my way. :-)
I’ll look in to variable and if_variable. Doesn’t make much sense to me at first glance.

jsoo wrote:

You don’t need to specify showalways="0", because that is the default. Is there another article tag on this page?

Yes there is one.

jsoo · 2009-10-14 21:58:01

If older is unexpectedly producing links to, say, ?pg=2, it is probably because of the other article tag.

korpulente · 2009-10-14 22:08:55

I just tested it and you’re absolutely right. I need the other article on that page though. Is there a way to tie older to a specific article — maybe by using variable?

jsoo wrote:

If older is unexpectedly producing links to, say, ?pg=2, it is probably because of the other article tag.

els · 2009-10-14 22:29:34

Ah OK, my suggestion to use variable and if_variable was supposed to solve this:

The damn pagination link is displayed at all times. :-/

but apparently your problem is a different one (as Jeff found out). Can you post both your article tags please? I’m not sure, but maybe the pageby attribute could help.

korpulente · 2009-10-14 22:52:59

First one is to display the latest news article fully:

<txp:article limit="1" />

Next, I need a column with links to a series of the nine latest news articles:

<txp:article form="news-col" status="live" limit="9" wraptag="ul" />

 <txp:if_article_list> 
 <a href="<txp:older" />" class="prev-news">Older news</a>
 </txp:if_article_list>

This article uses this form, to produce the list:

<li><txp:posted format="%e. %b." /> <txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></li>

Thank you so much for helping me out, by the way! Much appreciated.

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