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Book type navigation: List of categories on a sticky article of the sa
Hello to TXP users!
I am trying to make a kind of book navigation (always wanted to achieve something resembling the Drupal book navigation with TXP).
Example: when a user hits Section “Texts” he goes to a single page (sticky article of the section Texts) with list of categories of the same section “Texts”. I don’t want a list articles from all categories below. Example – http://txp.blagg.co.cc/en-txt/
So I put this code in the sticky article:
<txp:category_list parent="textx" exclude="texts" label="Categories" section="Texts" type="article" /> In the Page template (presentation -> pages) I added this:
<txp:if_section name="texts">
<txp:article status="sticky" limit="1" form="single" />
<txp:article limit="0" />
<txp:else />
<txp:article limit="5" />
</txp:if_section>And it works OK in Live mode but in Testing mode the TXP shows:
Warning: Division by zero on line 793I understand it is not quite right. Is it possible to achieve the same effect in proper way without the system warning?
Last edited by admi (2012-05-15 00:42:57)
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Re: Book type navigation: List of categories on a sticky article of the sa
I would delete <txp article limit="0" />.
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Re: Book type navigation: List of categories on a sticky article of the sa
colak wrote:
I would delete
<txp article limit="0" />.
If I delete <txp article limit=“0” /> there will be no individual article.
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Re: Book type navigation: List of categories on a sticky article of the sa
Just change limit="0" to limit="1".
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#5 2012-05-14 20:40:29
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Re: Book type navigation: List of categories on a sticky article of the sa
jakob was quicker, nevertheless one/two more attempts.
I’ve not yet seen a method limit="0", thus can’t tell what you want to achieve. From my few tests it seems that article lists are suppressed with an error message, whereas individual articles are displayed without error. So, might it be viable that you put an if_individual_article tag around your article tag? Or use it around the 0 limit?
If neither of these gives you hint enough, please hint some more yourself: what do you want to achieve with the zero limit and why. Both might speed up finding a solution.
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Re: Book type navigation: List of categories on a sticky article of the sa
If neither of these gives you hint enough, please hint some more yourself: what do you want to achieve with the zero limit and why. Both might speed up finding a solution.
With limit=“0” I get rid of list of articles under the sticky page and have just a single article with categories menu in it (like a contents of a book). I can create a sticky page in a different section and use for the same purpose but in this case breadcrumbs will not display the right track because sections of the page where u see a list of categories is different from section where the articles themselves are published.
Here is an example of what I want to achieve http://txp.blagg.co.cc/en-txt/ – sorry for no style, I hope the idea is clear.
Last edited by admi (2012-05-14 22:22:50)
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Re: Book type navigation: List of categories on a sticky article of the sa
jakob wrote:
Just change
limit="0"tolimit="1".
In that case one article will be displayed under the sticky one, and I don’t want that.
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Re: Book type navigation: List of categories on a sticky article of the sa
Hi Andre
There is the soo_if_frontpage with which can detect section front pages If you wish to use a plugin but if your code works in live mode I would stick with the native tags whenever possible.
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Re: Book type navigation: List of categories on a sticky article of the sa
colak wrote:
Hi Andre
There is the soo_if_frontpage with which can detect section front pages If you wish to use a plugin but if your code works in live mode I would stick with the native tags whenever possible.
Yes, colak, you are right. As a matter of fact, I made one site http://superclimate.by/hokkaido/ with this plugin and such a coding, and you know, there were no warning messages even in Testing mode. But I am, being a little idealistic, trying to achieve this in “kosher” way with no extra plugins and warning messages in Testing mode.
The reason is that I don’t want to use other CMSs (Drupal or Modx, for example, that can create such a structure easier with no extra modules) when it comes to creating a catalogue / book like hierarchy because I believe TXP has more other advantages.
The alternative solution is using adi_menu http://belsvk.by/info/produktsiya but having too many subsections is a headache.
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Re: Book type navigation: List of categories on a sticky article of the sa
In that case one article will be displayed under the sticky one, and I don’t want that.
Ah, ok, I didn’t know that. Would this variant with if_article_list work then?
<txp:if_section name="texts">
<txp:if_article_list>
<!-- section landing page -->
<txp:article status="sticky" limit="1" form="single" />
<txp:else />
<!-- individual article -->
<txp:article />
</txp:if_article_list>
<txp:else />
<txp:article limit="5" />
</txp:if_section>You can also use if_individual_article instead if you turn around the if and else cases.
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Re: Book type navigation: List of categories on a sticky article of the sa
yes, jacob, it works like charm without any warning! That’s what I have been trying to achieve. I had to move navigation to older and newer pages to two different places though. I think the question that bothered me for some time is solved! Thanks a lot.
Last edited by admi (2012-05-15 15:59:47)
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