Related articles limited by section

pieman · 2012-04-17 12:08:49

I’m struggling to find a way to fetch articles related by section without specifying a category, which the native related_articles tag requires:

If both categories are left blank, then no articles are selected

chh_related_articles almost works, but it requires something in the relation attribute (not section, which has its own attr). And man, it’s old.

Are other options apart from smd_query?

uli · 2012-04-17 12:26:14

Couldn’t you work around it with an article_custom and if_article_id to exclude the current one?

pieman · 2012-04-17 13:59:59

Hi Uli

I did this previously:

<txp:if_article_id><txp:else />
{output tags}
</txp:if_article_id>

But if I only need to fetch one article and it happens to be the current one then I get nothing back.

I guess I could put a second txp:article_custom tag with an offset into the first if part of that statement…

Will try that now.

pieman · 2012-04-17 14:13:53

Well, it feels like it should be possible with less code, but that works. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Uli.

uli · 2012-04-17 14:38:06

You’re welcome.

pieman wrote:

second txp:article_custom tag with an offset [snip] Well, it feels like it should be possible with less code

Sometimes it’d be nice to simply put conditionals around attribute/value pairs, yup ;)

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