How do I insert a return of paragraph formatting to article listing?

wmike · 2006-01-15 18:51:25

The code below sits on a page with section links – these all flow together. How do I get them to list properly- one below the next. Also the exerpts do not show (but do in the article themselves)

<code>http://www.wrightplace.co.uk</code> the ‘it articles’ displays the problem.

What am I missing here?

Cheers!

Mike

wmike · 2006-01-15 18:53:04

Sorry forgot the code tags!

els · 2006-01-15 19:03:34

wmike wrote:

The code below sits on a page with section links – these all flow together. How do I get them to list properly- one below the next. Also the exerpts do not show (but do in the article themselves)
<code>
<p><txp:if_article_list section=“it”>
<!— excerpt only —>
<txp:excerpt />
<txp:permlink>read more..</txp:permlink>
<txp:else />
<!— full article body —>
<txp:body />
</txp:if_article_list></p>
</code>
<code>http://www.wrightplace.co.uk</code> the ‘it articles’ displays the problem.

What am I missing here?

Cheers!

Mike

You can’t use the attribute section in <txp:if_article_list>, and you can’t use tags like <txp:excerpt /> and <txp:body /> on a page. Try something like this:
<code>
<txp:if_section name=“it”>
<txp:article form=“yourform” listform=“yourform” limit=“nn” />
</txp:if_section>
</code>
The form “yourform”:
<code>
<txp:if_article_list>
<txp:title />
<txp:excerpt />
<txp:else />
<h2><txp:title /></h2>
<txp:body />
</txp:if_article_list>
</code>
Or you can create two different forms for the individual article (form=) and the article list (listform=).

wmike · 2006-01-16 07:43:47

Hi Els,

Thanks for that.

If I use the code suggested – I get a server 404 error.

I now have

This still displays article links in one long row without the excerpts showing.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

Mike

wmike · 2006-01-16 08:01:39

Further…

My IT articles page also has a h1 tagged heading – <code><h1>IT articles</h1>

<txp:article_custom section=“it” sortby=“Posted” sortdir=“desc” excerpted=“y” listform=“default” /></code>

This fails to show on the page also.

wmike · 2006-01-16 09:52:20

My article form contains: <code<h1><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink> ·</h1>
<!— excerpt only —>
<txp:excerpt />
<txp:permlink>read more..</txp:permlink></code>

wmike · 2006-01-16 13:35:56

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this please – I want the list to be shown thus;

a. /br
b. /br
etc

Or just wrapped in <p> tags – I can’t seem to work this out.

Also – the excerpts also fail to show.

Cheers!

Mike

wmike · 2006-01-16 13:40:15

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this please – I want the list to be shown thus;

a. /br
b. /br
etc

Or just wrapped in <p> tags – I can’t seem to work this out.

Also – the excerpts also fail to show.

Cheers!

Mike

els · 2006-01-16 14:58:02

So this should be on your page:
<code>
<txp:if_section name=“it”>
<h1>IT articles</h1>
<txp:article_custom section=“it” sortby=“Posted” sortdir=“desc” excerpted=“y” listform=“default” />
</txp:if_section>
</code>
Is it on the default page or on another page?
And did you set section ‘it’ to use this page? (if you’re using a specific page for this section you can leave out the <txp:if_section> tags).

And are you sure that this:
<code>
<h4><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></h4>
<p><txp:excerpt /><txp:permlink>(read more..)</txp:permlink></p>
</code>
is your default form? Because that’s the form your article tag says to use.

If you haven’t turned off Textile for excerpts, then the excerpt is already wrapped in <p> tags, you don’t need to have them in your form. So you could use:
<code>
<h4><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></h4>
<txp:excerpt />
<p><txp:permlink>(read more..)</txp:permlink></p>
</code>

wmike · 2006-01-16 16:33:40

Hi Els,

Getting more confused by the second – take a look at the site – <code>http://www.wrightplace.co.uk</code>

The it articles link now just results in (read more).

I have followed your advice – my ‘it section’ uses the default page.

Defautl page code:

<code>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=“en” lang=“en”>
<head> <meta http-equiv=“content-type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” /> <link rel=“stylesheet” href=”<txp:css />” type=“text/css” media=“screen” /> <title>WrightPlace Consulting – <txp:page_title /></title>
</head>
<body>
<div id=“container”>
<div id=“accessibility”> <a href=”#content” title=“Go to content”>Go to content</a> <a href=”#sidebar-1” title=“Go to navigation”>Go to navigation</a> <a href=”#sidebar-2” title=“Go to search”>Go to search</a>
</div> <!— /accessibility —>

<!— head —>
<div id=“copyright”>copyright WrightPlace Consulting 2005©</div>
<div id=“topt”>t. +44 1953 457116 | </div>
<div id=“topemail”><a href=“mailto:customerservice@wrightplace.co.uk”>email us</a></div>
<img src=“images/3.jpg” alt=“Welcome to WrightPlace Consulting – making IT easy! />

<div id=“content”>
<!— left —>
<div id=“sidebar-1”>
<p><a href=”/making-it-easy-with-wrightplace-consulting”>home</a></p>
<p><a href=”/wrightplace-consulting-the-team”>about us</a><p>
<p><a href=”/why-us”>why us?</a><p>
<p><a href=”/contact-us”>contact us</a><p>
<p><a href=”/what-our-customers-think”>customer views</a><p>
<p><a href=”../cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl” target=”_blank”>the forum</a></p>
<p><a href=”../blog/index.php” target=”_blank”>blog</a></p>
<p><a href=”/code-of-practise”>code of practise</a><p>

<h4 class=“top10”>Services</h4>
<p class=“top10”><a href=”/it-sprint”>IT sprint</a><p>
<p><a href=”/it-training”>IT training</a><p>
<p><a href=”/web-marketing”>web marketing</a><p>
<h4 class=“top10”>Articles</h4>
<p class=“top10”><a href=”/it-articles”>it articles</a><p>

</div>

<!— right —>
<div id=“sidebar-2”>

<txp:search_input label=“Search” wraptag=“p” /> <txp:popup type=“c” label=“Browse” wraptag=“p” /> <p><txp:feed_link label=“RSS” /> / <txp:feed_link label=“Atom” flavor=“atom” /></p>

</div>

<!— center —>

<div id=“content2”> <txp:article />
<txp:if_individual_article>
<p>
<txp:link_to_prev><txp:prev_title /></txp:link_to_prev>
<txp:link_to_next><txp:next_title /></txp:link_to_next>
</p>
</txp:if_individual_article>
<txp:if_article_list>
<p>
<txp:older>Previous</txp:older>
<txp:newer>Next</txp:newer>
</p>
</txp:if_article_list>
</div>
</div>

<!— footer —>
<div id=“foot”> </div>

</div>

</body>
</html>
</code>

Sorry if I’m being a bit stupid here – obviously, I’m missing something simple.

Many thanks for your help.

Cheers!

Mike

wmike · 2006-01-16 16:42:02

the two articles that should be displayed have the following set;
section=it
catagory=it

wmike · 2006-01-16 16:43:30

default form:

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