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[howto] Determining the state of Textpattern-rendered output
When I’m building a site, it’s useful to me to be able to see what state a URL has according to Textpattern. At this stage, I need to work out if a page is any of the following:
- the front page
- an article list
- an individual article
- search results
- a missing page (HTTP 404 error)
This is how I’m doing it right now:
<txp:if_status status="404">
<p>is 404</p>
<txp:else />
<p>is not 404</p>
<txp:if_search>
<p>is search results</p>
<txp:else />
<p>is not search results</p>
<txp:if_individual_article>
<p>is individual article</p>
<txp:else />
<p>is not individual article</p>
<txp:if_article_list>
<p>is article list</p>
<txp:if_section name=",default">
<p>is front page</p>
<txp:else />
<p>is not front page</p>
</txp:if_section>
<txp:else />
<p>is not article list</p>
</txp:if_article_list>
</txp:if_individual_article>
</txp:if_search>
</txp:if_status>
This works — it does the job I need it to do. It’s basic and ugly. I’ll likely add to it when I get further along with the build, but I wanted to share what I have so far.
Last edited by gaekwad (2012-09-13 15:12:36)
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Re: [howto] Determining the state of Textpattern-rendered output
Hi Pete,
you can make it slightly more context responsive by using
<txp:if_search>
<!-- search results -->
<txp:else />
<txp:if_article_list>
<!-- article list page, either section or category -->
<txp:variable name="categoryname" value='<txp:page_url type="c" />' />
<!-- detect if you are in a category page -->
<txp:if_variable name="categoryname" value="">
<txp:if_section name="">
<!-- home page -->
<txp:else />
<!-- section home page -->
</txp:if_section>
<txp:else />
<!-- category page -->
</txp:if_variable>
<txp:else />
<!-- individual article page -->
</txp:if_article_list>
</txp:if_search>The error pages can be handled by the error page so they don’t have to be included in this tree
Yiannis
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Re: [howto] Determining the state of Textpattern-rendered output
Hi Yiannis — thanks, you’ve just saved me posting the next iteration I was working on! :)
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Re: [howto] Determining the state of Textpattern-rendered output
All we need to do now is think how <txp:variable name="authorname" value='<txp:page_url type="author" />' /> can be included in there:)
Yiannis
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Re: [howto] Determining the state of Textpattern-rendered output
Maybe something like this… Untested.
<txp:if_search>
<!-- search results -->
<txp:else />
<txp:if_article_list>
<!-- article list page, either section or category -->
<txp:variable name="authorname" value='<txp:page_url type="author" />' />
<txp:if_variable name="authorname" value='<txp:page_url type="author" />'>
<!-- author article list -->
<txp:else />
<txp:variable name="categoryname" value='<txp:page_url type="c" />' />
<!-- detect if you are in a category page -->
<txp:if_variable name="categoryname" value="">
<txp:if_section name="">
<!-- home page -->
<txp:else />
<!-- section home page -->
</txp:if_section>
<txp:else />
<!-- category page -->
</txp:if_variable> <!-- end category variable -->
</txp:if_variable> <!-- end author variable -->
<txp:else />
<!-- individual article page -->
</txp:if_article_list>
</txp:if_search>Yiannis
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