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Use article-url-title as article_custom selector?
Input: article-url-title (in a variable)
Desired output: article_custom block for only the article with a matching URL title.
For example, my needs would be met if there was an “article_url_title” attribute in article_custom, like so:
<txp:article_custom section="manufacturers" article_url_title="manufacturer-name-here" form="mfg_display" />My brain is toast (too much adi_gps, adi_calc, etc…) so I’m thinking maybe I’m forgetting something…but thanks for any help.
Last edited by maruchan (2012-06-10 04:03:53)
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Re: Use article-url-title as article_custom selector?
Hi Marc, what do you mean with article_url_title? I take it that you don’t mean URL only title which has to be a unique entry on each post for some url schemas.
Yiannis
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Yes, I do mean URL only title. You see, I want to retrieve this exact article in order to display its imagery, body text, etc.
I have two sections, one for products, one for manufacturers.
If you are on the manufacturers page, there is a feature that will “show all manufacturers that make large widgets”. So I capture the widget size via a URL variable named “size”. Then after I sanitize the variable, I do this:
<txp:article_custom size='<txp:variable name="size" />' sort="Section" limit="9999">
<txp:if_different>
<txp:variable name="matching-section"><txp:section /></txp:variable>
</txp:if_different>
</txp:article_custom>…now that was just a test, but I have the name of the section(s) where there are items of that size. OK, now I need to render those manufacturers’ information. So I want to change the above to something like this:
<txp:article_custom size='<txp:variable name="size" />' sort="Section" limit="9999">
<txp:if_different>
<txp:variable name="matching-section"><txp:section /></txp:variable>
<txp:article_custom section="manufacturers" url_only_title='<txp:variable name="matching-section" />' >
<h1><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></h1><!-- Manufacturer name -->
<!-- body, excerpt, image, whatever goes here -->
</txp:article_custom>
</txp:if_different>
</txp:article_custom>(I’m using url_only_title above, to answer your question) Does that sort of make sense? :-) I already have articles in the manufacturers’ section that are named with the correct URL-only-title.
…I guess I could change the articles’ URL only titles to match their ID number…I know article_custom will allow ID. :-) But that would be ugly in the URL.
Last edited by maruchan (2012-06-10 05:54:57)
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maruchan wrote:
…I guess I could change the articles’ URL only titles to match their ID number…I know article_custom will allow ID. :-) But that would be ugly in the URL.
Or you could use a custom_field there… if it was called “brand” something like:
<txp:article_custom section="manufacturers" brand='<txp:variable name="matching-section" />' >should work
Yiannis
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Ah, that makes sense. Even a category would work, I suppose. I was just thinking in terms of using what’s already there. Thanks, I’ll probably do that.
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