Creating a return to top links after a series of articles

pafruu · 2011-09-02 14:02:55

Hello, I’ve been wondering how I could go about doing this.

Here is the situation, I have a couple of articles that are listed in a list and they are separated by category2 in alphabetical order.

here is the code that I have

<txp:if_different><h2 style="padding-top:5px;"><a name="<txp:category2 />" style="Text-decoration:none;"><txp:category2 /></a></h2></txp:if_different><div style="padding-bottom:15px"><h3><txp:title /></h3><txp:if_custom_field name="telephone">Téléphone: 506-<txp:custom_field name="telephone" /><br></txp:if_custom_field><txp:if_custom_field name="cellulaire">Cellulaire: 506-<txp:custom_field name="cellulaire" /><br></txp:if_custom_field><txp:if_custom_field name="fax">Fax: 506-<txp:custom_field name="fax" /><br></txp:if_custom_field><txp:if_custom_field name="email">Courriel: <a href="mailto:<txp:custom_field name="email" />"><txp:custom_field name="email" /></a><br></txp:if_custom_field><txp:if_custom_field name="web">Web: <a href="http://<txp:custom_field name="web" />" target="_blank"><txp:custom_field name="web" /></a></txp:if_custom_field></div>

What I want to do now is add that return to top link which will bring my user to a alphabetical nav.
I tried <txp:if_article_category> and <txp:if_article_list> but I got nothing (or maybe its just me who doesnt understand the lingo) (My bet is on the second option)

How do I go about doing this? Any ideas / suggestions?

Thanks
Patrick

Last edited by pafruu (2011-09-02 14:03:25)

merz1 · 2011-09-02 15:01:30

Not sure if if_last_article can help.

(Workaround) I am using the plug-in rss_suparchive (orphaned) for my archive page which offers some convenient attributes:

<txp:rss_suparchive_bycat ... showmenu="1" showjump="1" jumplabel="&hellip;^&hellip;" />

pafruu · 2011-09-02 19:31:18

merz1 wrote:

Not sure if if_last_article can help.

Thank you for your quick reply merz1,

I tried it and it went all the way down the list, resulting just one “return to top”. I wonder, is there a way to utilise <txp:if_last_article> per categories in an article list?

jakob · 2011-09-02 19:48:07

How about sticking it in your if_different section that shows between each category. To stop it showing at the top of the list you can use if_first_article’s else case and to add the missing one at the end of the entire list, you can use if_last_article:

<txp:if_different>
  <txp:if_first_article><txp:else />
    <a class="up-link" href="#top">to top</a>
  </txp:if_first_article>

  <h2>
    <a name="<txp:category2 />"><txp:category2 /></a>
  </h2>
</txp:if_different>

<!-- rest of your code -->

<txp:if_last_article>
    <a class="up-link" href="#top">to top</a>
</txp:if_last_article>

Is that what you are looking for?

Last edited by jakob (2011-09-03 07:37:37)

pafruu · 2011-09-02 21:45:00

jakob wrote:

How about sticking it in your if_different section that shows between each category. To stop it showing at the top of the list you can use if_first_article’s else case and to add the missing one at the end of the entire list, you can use if_last_article:

<txp:if_different>
  <txp:if_first_article><txp:else />
    <a class="up-link" href="#top">to top</a>
  </txp:if_first_article>

  <h2>
    <a name="<txp:category2 />"><txp:category2 /></a>
  </h2>
</txp:if_different>

<!-- rest of your code -->

<txp:if_last_article><txp:else />
    <a class="up-link" href="#top">to top</a>
</txp:if_last_article>

Is that what you are looking for?

Thanks for your reply jakob.

It<s almost the result i<m looking for, however, I get a “to top” link under each article now and the very first category as the title repeated twice.
I tried switching the code around a bit by doing this

<txp:if_different>
  <txp:if_first_article><txp:else />
    <txp:if_last_article>
    <a class="up-link" href="#top">to top</a><txp:else />
</txp:if_last_article>
  </txp:if_first_article>

that did not work either, as a matter of fact the whole list disappeared

els · 2011-09-02 23:55:45

if_first/last_article doesn’t work well together with if_different. Have a look at this post for a solution.

Last edited by els (2011-09-02 23:57:09)

jakob · 2011-09-03 07:36:18

Good catch, Els. My apologies pafruu!

So this should work (and not require a stray comment in the code):

<txp:variable name="article_archive_different" value="" />
<txp:if_different>
  <txp:variable name="article_archive_different"><txp:category2 /></txp:variable>
</txp:if_different>

<txp:if_variable name="article_archive_different" value=""><txp:else />
  <txp:if_first_article><txp:else />
    <a class="up-link" href="#top">to top</a>
  </txp:if_first_article>

  <h2>
    <a name="<txp:category2 />"><txp:category2 /></a>
  </h2>
</txp:if_variable>

<!-- rest of your code -->

<txp:if_last_article>
    <a class="up-link" href="#top">to top</a>
</txp:if_last_article>

pafruu · 2011-09-03 12:30:40

Thanks for your reply Els.

I looked at the link you posted and tried to adapt it to my needs.

Here is what i got:

<txp:if_different><h2 style="padding-top:5px;"><a name="<txp:category2 />" style="Text-decoration:none;"><txp:category2 /></a></h2><txp:variable name="article_archive_different" value="yes" />
<txp:else />
  <txp:variable name="article_archive_different" value="no" /></txp:if_different><div style="padding-bottom:15px"><h3><txp:title /></h3><txp:if_custom_field name="telephone">Téléphone: 506-<txp:custom_field name="telephone" /><br></txp:if_custom_field><txp:if_custom_field name="cellulaire">Cellulaire: 506-<txp:custom_field name="cellulaire" /><br></txp:if_custom_field><txp:if_custom_field name="fax">Fax: 506-<txp:custom_field name="fax" /><br></txp:if_custom_field><txp:if_custom_field name="email">Courriel: <a href="mailto:<txp:custom_field name="email" />"><txp:custom_field name="email" /></a><br></txp:if_custom_field><txp:if_custom_field name="web">Web: <a href="http://<txp:custom_field name="web" />" target="_blank"><txp:custom_field name="web" /></a></txp:if_custom_field></div><txp:if_variable name="article_archive_different" value="yes"><txp:if_last_article><div style="float:right">test 2</div></txp:if_last_article><txp:else /></txp:if_variable>

Unfortunately, I know i did it worng, the test 2 value shows at the very last article of the whole list. I’m missing something..

pafruu · 2011-09-03 12:42:20

Thanks for all the help guys it is really appreciated

Jakob thanks for your reply,

I tried your code and what I got is an h2 for all articles and a return to top on all articles.

What I am trying to do is summerized like this:

Category2 value=“1”
article1
article2
article3
return to top

Category2 value=“2”
article1
article2
article3
article4
return to top

Category2 value=“3”
article1
return to top

what was rendered with your suggestion was as follows:

Category2 value=“1”
article1
return to top

Category2 value=“1”
article2
return to top

Category2 value=“1”
article3
return to top

Category2 value=“2”
article1
return to top

(and so on and so forth)

How can I get just one title per category and one return to top per category?

Last edited by pafruu (2011-09-03 12:46:34)

jakob · 2011-09-03 13:54:53

Can you post how you are calling this form?

For example, what do you have in your sort attribute for txp:article or txp:article_custom? That should be something like sort="category2 asc, Posted desc". If the articles come out not sorted by category2, if_different will be different whenever the category changes.

Second avenue, try the way shown in the post that Els linked to. Perhaps if_different also has its problems with variables. I don’t think it should make a difference but maybe:

<txp:if_different>
  <!-- <txp:category2 /> -->
  <txp:variable name="article_archive_different" value="yes" />
<txp:else />
  <txp:variable name="article_archive_different" value="" />
</txp:if_different> 

<!-- rest of your code -->

If none of that works, go back to what you tried in response to Els’ suggestion but change the end bit as follows:

<!-- rest of your code -->

<txp:if_variable name="article_archive_different" value="yes">
  <div style="float:right">test 2</div>
</txp:if_variable>
<txp:if_last_article>
  <div style="float:right">test 2</div>
</txp:if_last_article>

In fact, you probably don’t need the if_last_article bit seeing as you put your “return to top” link at the end of your code block.

Last edited by jakob (2011-09-03 13:55:52)

pafruu · 2011-09-03 15:58:04

here is how I call it:

<txp:article allowoverride="1" form="ccmembres" category="membres" pgonly="0" sort="Category2 asc,Title asc"  status="5" limit="999" />

I will try your suggestions and let you know if it worked

pafruu · 2011-09-03 16:58:09

I almost have it working:

here is the code:

<txp:if_different><txp:if_first_article><h2><a name="<txp:category2 />"><txp:category2 /></a></h2><txp:else /><h4>test 4</h4>
<h2><a name="<txp:category2 />"><txp:category2 /></a></h2></txp:if_first_article>
<txp:else />
</txp:if_different>

<--- rest of code ---->
<txp:if_last_article>
  <div>test 2</div>
</txp:if_last_article>

this shows everything in its place except for the second article where the category title is repeated and the test 4 is under the first article:

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Creating a return to top links after a series of articles

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