Using <txp:section_list />

Enor · 2010-09-15 22:26:52

Hi

I have this in place for my form named navigation:

<txp:section_list wraptag=“ul” break=“li” include_default=“1” default_title=“home” sections=”, about, process, portfolio, contact, blog” />

But I want it to output the code as:

<ul> <li class=“home-link”><a href=”/”>Home</a></li> <li class=“about-link”><a href=”/about”>About – Who are we</a></li> <li class=“process-link”><a href=”/process”>Process – What we do</a></li> <li class=“portfolio-link”><a href=”/portfolio”>Portfolio – Our clients</a></li> <li class=“contact-link”><a href=”/contact”>Contact – Get in touch</a></li> <li class=“blog-link”><a href=”/blog”>Blog – The latest</a></li>
</ul>

How would I do this?

Plus I want the additional text after the hyphen too e.g. “What we do” but I do not want to add it to my section title in the sections page. Is this possible in Textpattern?

jsoo · 2010-09-16 01:48:23

Yes, it can be done.

There’s no standard way to add extra data to sections, as with the descriptions you want. You could do it with a big a stack of conditionals, but it would be a pain to debug and maintain.

Or you could also put the descriptions into articles, one for each section, assigning them a special category, and calling up the descriptions with an article_custom tag inside your section list. That’s not a bad solution.

If I had to do this I’d probably use some raw PHP in a form, and make use of the rather cool yield function. Just note that making a syntax error in the raw PHP can take your site completely offline, so don’t experiment with this on a production site.

In your page template:

<txp:section_list wraptag="ul" sections=",about,process,portfolio,contact,blog" default_title="Home">
    <li class="<txp:section />"-link"><a href="<txp:section url="1" />"><txp:section title="1" /><txp:output_form form="section_descriptions"><txp:section /></txp:output_form></a></li>
</txp:section_list>

In the form named “section_descriptions”:

<txp:php>
	$desc = array(
		'default' => '',
		'about' => ' - Who we are',
// etc. for remaining sections
	);
	echo $desc[yield()];
</txp:php>

Untested, ymmv :)

Last edited by jsoo (2010-09-16 01:49:26)

uli · 2010-09-16 01:52:37

Are you aware that you can assign section names and section titles? Thus, your section name could be “process” while its title is “Process – What we do”. Then you could use the section list tag as a container tag wrapped around the following section tag <txp:section link="1" title="1" class='<txp:section />-link' wraptag="li" />, and the list of sections would automatically be updated every time you add one to your site.

If, however, you need three variants of section’s denotations, we’d need someone with a real idea.

EDIT: Seems like the one with the real idea was even faster than me :)

Last edited by uli (2010-09-16 02:01:21)

jsoo · 2010-09-16 02:07:18

I suppose a safer route would be to use the variable tag. More elegant, too. Especially if I remember to use section as a container tag :)

<txp:variable name="default" value="" />
<txp:variable name="about" value=" - Who we are " />
<!-- and so on for each section -->
<txp:section_list wraptag="ul" sections=",about,process,portfolio,contact,blog" default_title="Home">
    <li class="<txp:section />"-link"><txp:section><txp:section title="1" /><txp:variable name='<txp:section />' /></txp:section></li>
</txp:section_list>

Note the single quotes around the section tag inside the variable tag.

Enor · 2010-09-16 06:34:20

Hi Guys

Thanks for your responses….

Jeff I tried yours and it worked as intended:

<txp:variable name=“default” value=”“ />
<txp:variable name=“about” value=” – Who we are” />
<txp:variable name=“process” value=” – What we do” />
<txp:variable name=“portfolio” value=” – Our clients” />
<txp:variable name=“contact” value=” – Get in touch” />
<txp:variable name=“blog” value=” – The latest” />
<txp:section_list wraptag=“ul” sections=“home,about,process,portfolio,contact,blog” default_title=“Home”> <li class=”<txp:section />-link”><txp:section><txp:section title=“1” /><txp:variable name=’<txp:section />’ /></txp:section></li>
</txp:section_list>

But when I look at the source code, for each <li> produced a <br /> appears. How do I remove the <br /> ?

thebombsite · 2010-09-16 07:17:49

I think you will need to add break="" to the <txp:section_list /> tag. It has a default value of “br”.

els · 2010-09-16 07:18:34

Enor wrote:

But when I look at the source code, for each <li> produced a <br /> appears. How do I remove the <br /> ?

You need to add break="" to the section_list tag, because this attribute’s default value is br.

Edit: late again ;)

Last edited by els (2010-09-16 07:19:03)

Enor · 2010-09-16 08:16:14

Thanks Els :)

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