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Overriding page template from URL query
Is it possible to override the defined page template for a given section with a URL query? If so, what’s the cleanest / sanest route?
For example, I have a section calendar with a HTML page, and I’m using /section/title URL by default. The page uses article_custom to draw from multiple categories. The messy URL looks like this:
https://example.com/?s=calendarThis link as-is will render HTML in a browser. Ideally, I’d like to have 1 or more non-HTML formats (including e.g. iCalendar) that uses the same section name (calendar), and the page template is specified from the URL. The messy URL might look like this:
https://example.com/?s=calendar&page=icalendarIt feels like I’m missing something obvious, and my docs search-fu has come up short. Lots of long days at the moment, and my brainmeat is not as well-rested as it should be.
Any guidance is warmly welcomed. Thank you.
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Re: Overriding page template from URL query
Custom forms, Sir:
https://example.com/?s=calendar&f=icalendarPages are historically tied to sections for privacy reasons, but custom forms are freely selectable via URL, caveat utilitor. So just put the code of icalendar page into icalendar custom form, and you should be set, unless my memory fools me.
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Re: Overriding page template from URL query
etc wrote #343537:
Custom forms, Sir:
https://example.com/?s=calendar&f=icalendar...Pages are historically tied to sections for privacy reasons, but custom forms are freely selectable via URL, caveat utilitor. So just put the code of
icalendarpage intoicalendarcustom form, and you should be set, unless my memory fools me.
Thanks very much, etc. This is a departure to my usual route, so please forgive me if I’m misunderstanding it…if the HTML page is essentially hard-coded (tied) to the section, it will still be parsed for the iCalendar ‘container’ before the iCalendar-friendly article form is used for each event…is that correct?
As the (hypothetical) iCalendar page has a fully non-HTML scaffold, I’m interpreting this to mean that I realistically need a separate section with its own page + forms stack. I can accomplish this, it should be easy enough to do, it needs some re-architecting of the site but it’s doable.
Example iCalendar markup follows, for any curious parties:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//xyz Corp//NONSGML PDA Calendar Version 1.0//EN
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:19960704T120000Z
UID:uid1@example.com
ORGANIZER:mailto:jsmith@example.com
DTSTART:19960918T143000Z
DTEND:19960920T220000Z
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:CONFERENCE
SUMMARY:Networld+Interop Conference
DESCRIPTION:Networld+Interop Conference
and Exhibit\nAtlanta World Congress Center\n
Atlanta\, Georgia
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDARLast edited by gaekwad (Yesterday 19:32:17)
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Re: Overriding page template from URL query
If you switch on the “Advanced options” under Admin › Preferences › Admin, you can define a custom form type and give it a corresponding mime-type for downloading the ics file. Something like:
[ics]
mediatype="text/calendar"
title="iCal"Then create a form with your vcalendar form data and that should trigger an ics download. You can use txp:header to add additional headers if needed.
Then you call it with ?f=formname plus additional url attributes if needed.
There’s an old tutorial on textpattern.tips that shows the principle but uses an old plugin to output the custom form.
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Re: Overriding page template from URL query
jakob wrote #343539:
If you switch on the “Advanced options” under Admin › Preferences › Admin, you can define a custom form type and give it a corresponding mime-type for downloading the ics file.
Thanks, jakob – I’ll try that!
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Re: Overriding page template from URL query
gaekwad wrote #343538:
if the HTML page is essentially hard-coded (tied) to the section, it will still be parsed for the iCalendar ‘container’ before the iCalendar-friendly article form is used for each event…is that correct?
As the (hypothetical) iCalendar page has a fully non-HTML scaffold, I’m interpreting this to mean that I realistically need a separate section with its own page + forms stack.
No. Custom forms actually act as free pages, overriding this tied to the section. If you create, as Julian suggests, a text/calendar type custom form (call it icalendar, say)
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//xyz Corp//NONSGML PDA Calendar Version 1.0//EN
VERSION:2.0
<txp:article>
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:<txp:posted format="..." />
...
END:VEVENT
</txp:article>
END:VCALENDARyou should be able to use it as page substitute for any section:
https://example.com/?s=calendar&f=icalendar or https://example.com/?s=events&f=icalendarThe only restriction is that icalendar must belong to the same theme that the concerned sections.
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