TXP and Sub sections

edge · 2005-11-10 10:32:09

I just spent a fair amount of time learning my way around Joomla and have found that the handling of sections and sub-sections is far from ideal for my needs (Sub sections are really impossible without a great deal of work from what I can see).

I wish to extend by skills beyond static XHTML /CSS-P websites, Dreamweaver templates and Contribute but I guess still want as much of the flexibility that I enjoy currently in designing sites with these tools but the advanatges of dynamic content and less manual labour.

From what I have read TXP seems a real possibility and better suited to where I am coming from (Seems to have some of the best CSS design templates and just feels more logical to me already). BUt I would be very greateful if the TXP experts would be kind enough to clarify a couple of points for me so I do not spend ages learning something and then find its not what I am after, so here goes

1. TXP Supports Sections, does it also support sub-sections (Sections within sections). For example I have a section called Services, within the services section and have five further sub sections for each service, support services, on-site services, training services etc.
2. Within each section or sub-section I may wish to display a different menu of links /topics that are specific to the actual pages (Articles) within that sub-section. Is this easy to achieve
3. Client log-in – I did quite like the way Joomal handles this by specifying if content is for registered users only they get it (Those that log-in as members) Does TXP offer a similar feature so I can keep specific content just for members
4. In TXP the home(index) page will display articles that have beem marked as “show on home page”. But can you also have static content on the home page which is only ever going to be an intro for example on that page?

I guess I am looking to retain as much of the flexibility that I have building pages with Dreamweaver Templates and CSS within a CMS. Most of my sites are small to medium business sites so need less blogging and are much closer to brochureware / sections / sub-sections etc of a typical website.

Thank you in anticipation of your response.

paularms · 2005-11-10 14:02:32

sub sections request topic

1. You could use categories for this
2. Make a custom article list which displays articles from said category and section (you may need a plugin)
3. I think so, but I’m not the best to answer that question.
4. Just write it and put it in your index template

Sencer · 2005-11-10 16:05:19

1. TXP Supports Sections, does it also support sub-sections (Sections within sections). For example I have a section called Services, within the services section and have five further sub sections for each service, support services, on-site services, training services etc.

While sub-sections are not currently available, there is – as mentioned – the option of using categories. But especially if you are making brochure-ware, you can use the url-schema “/section/title” and your articles can appear like subsections. See this thread for details:
http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=11952

re 2: sections yes, sub-sections depends on how you realize them.

re 3: Not out of the box, no. Txp allows you to password-protect content, but uses “a hard-wired” password. If you want to restrict content to registered txp-users, it would however be relatively easy to write a plugin to do that – I am not sure if one already exists.

re 4: Yes, this is possible.

edge · 2005-11-10 18:38:17

Thank you both for your responses, much appriciaited

maniqui · 2005-11-11 16:38:26

<blockquote>But especially if you are making brochure-ware, you can use the url-schema ”/section/title” and your articles can appear like subsections. See this thread for details:
http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=11952</blockquote>

I have “expanded” that tutorial to a new approach:

static/dynamic site with dynamic two/three level nav

The idea is to use “sticky” articles as “subsections”, where the content of the “subsection” is the content of the “sticky” article.

edge · 2005-11-11 17:03:47

OK guys,

With your information, some of the info from Textpattern site and 3rd party tutuorials I can see how this hangs together. I have downloaded and installed textpattern now. I love the fact its lightweight logical and will allow me to work essentally in the way I am used to when designing standards compliant CSS-P websites. I am coming at this from designing static sites for years, lots of XMTHL and CSS-P coding and design experience and a tiny bit of PHP /MySQL.

Personally, whilst I can already see features I would like to see in Textpattern that do not exist yet, so many other CMS have go to complicated for the end-user. Mostly they want to write some info, say where its going and post it. With other solutions they would need to be trained before picking up what they have to do and that is a issue in small price sensitive website solutions

I am sure I will be posting regulary and contibuting to answering others questions as I gain the experience

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TXP and Sub sections

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