page for each category?

Dawk · 2006-01-17 17:54:51

I’ve searched a lot & still can’t figure this out?

I have a main News section & a lot of news Categories. How to I specify a Page layout for each Category?

I only see support for Section Pages in admin?

EDIT:

I think I need to use < txp:if_category name=“daily-news”>

thats as far as I’ve got though :)

Thanks a bunch

Last edited by Dawk (2006-01-17 18:10:55)

Dawk · 2006-01-17 20:21:04

well, I found a way to do it I think? seems like kind of a fudge though.

Looks like I can use the code below & create a separate ‘Form’ for each template I need…
<code>
<txp:if_category name=“daily-news”>
<txp:article form=“daily-news” />
</txp:if_category>
<txp:if_category name=“site-news”>
<txp:article form=“site-news” />
</txp:if_category>
</code>

was hoping for a magical <code><txp:article page=“daily-news” /></code> tag :)

should work fine for most, 1 section will have about 20 categories though.

Will 20 < txp:if_category’s be a query fest? lol

els · 2006-01-17 20:41:20

Do those article forms differ in the use of tags, or more in layout aspects like background colour etcetera? If the latter, you could try using tags like <div class="<txp:category1 />"> in the article form and define the classes in the CSS.

Dawk · 2006-01-17 20:49:38

Hey Els :)

Theres quite a bit of difference in markup, way more than CSS can handle. At least more than css can handle & keep my legacy browser support.
I have a 3col tableless(valid1.1) thats good back to IE5.0 now, not going to open that can ‘o worms lol

edit:
Another thing that just occured to me is…
My Page code is going to be a doctype & thats about it going the Form route, everything from the title tag down is specific to each category. title, meta, alternate RSS/Atom links etc. etc. etc.

goin to have to make that Form textarea a little bigger too lol

Last edited by Dawk (2006-01-17 20:56:12)

zem · 2006-01-17 22:19:10

Dawk,

It sounds to me like you’re using categories when you should be using sections.

Dawk · 2006-01-17 22:31:58

Ah man, ok lol… dorksplaps self :)

I was letting the document tree rule my thinking!

That would actually solve another matter I wasn’t 100% happy with either, the lack of a section/category/title method for URL’s
Glad I came to a full stop until I got to the bottom of this, not too much trouble to reset everything up now & section/title will work perfectly this way.

Thanks a bunch …off & runnin’ again! :)

sauo · 2006-02-04 00:48:23

Hi,
I have a similar question. I set up my root site with sections and one of the section is blog. On my blog I have couple of categories for my entries (btw. database of my blog has been imported from wordpress to textpattern into the “blog” section). Now I would like to have my categories using my blog’s template not a default one. Now I have one template for the main site, one for subsites and one for blog. When I browse (from my blog section) for category my entries jump into default template… I would like to have my categories show in proper section, something like: mysite.com/blog/?c=categoryname not like I have now: mysite.com/?c=categoryname. Is it possible? Thanx in advance!

thebombsite · 2006-02-04 02:00:17

I think you may be looking for this little trick.

sauo · 2006-02-04 11:05:10

Thank you very much :) I posted the following question there ;) http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?pid=98012#p98012

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