articles only from certain category

Dragan · 2006-02-06 09:57:59

My main code for displaying articles on the home page is this:

<txp:article_custom form="default" limit="1" section="recepti" sortby="Posted" sortdir="desc" listform="default" />
<txp:article_custom form="default" limit="1" section="blog" sortby="Posted" sortdir="desc" listform="default" />

You can see that I want one article from one section, and one article from another section to be displayed.

Now I have a problem when I want to see articles only from certain category (by clicking on it’s name), TXP doesn’t know where to show it I guess, so it gives me the home page always. How can I get around this?

(Edit: updated title to something more helpful, fixed code to display properly. :) -Mary)

Last edited by Mary (2006-03-14 20:05:37)

thebombsite · 2006-02-06 10:55:29

Have a look at this little trick to make category lists use the same page template and section that the link is on.

Dragan · 2006-02-06 12:01:23

Ooh, that is quite handy! I think it will do the trick, I suppose there is no way that the URI be formed as “clean”?

I have a couple more questions, since I am still in localhost, and on my XAMPP I can’t get clean URIs I always develop the site here, and then import the database on the real server and to the rest of the tweaking there to achieve some finesse, now, in this case I need to go online and test everything pretty soon, and I have a problem.

I have setup my directoryIndex in my .htaccess to be splash.php that holds a subscribe form untill the site goes live. Now, when I want to upload and run TXP regularily with that .htaccess rule, i always get 404s or whatnot, and I think even clean URLs don’t work.

How do I set up my .htaccess so that when people type http://mysite.com get the splash.php as the index, and when I type something else, http://mysite.com/index.php even, I get the real deal?

EDIT:

I have also forgotten one thing, namely when I tell TXP to display category names and automatically make them hyperlinks, what happens is—when I don’t assign a second category TXP outputs an empty anchor and It really annoys me, since they are styled that way and they can be seen. I have fixed this with Sencers asy_showcat plugin, but I’m also interested in getting rid of empty elements, for instance while paginating, when there is no “next” or “previous”
Also, I don’t like having empty elements lying around serveing no purpouse.

Last edited by Dragan (2006-02-06 13:01:03)

els · 2006-02-06 16:23:19

I’m also interested in getting rid of empty elements, for instance while paginating, when there is no “next” or “previous”.
Also, I don’t like having empty elements lying around serveing no purpouse.

Would chh_if_data help you with this?

Dragan · 2006-02-06 16:46:02

I will definitely have a look at that plugin doggiez, seems like the perfect solution. Also that asy_showcat plugin didn’t solve my problems, it can’t display category titles, so I’ll just stick with the bombsite’s trick.

Any suggestions on my developing “under the hood” problem with .htaccess???

thebombsite · 2006-02-06 20:15:43

I think your “development” problem has been discussed elsewhere. If I find it I’ll drop a link in or why don’t you have a go at a search.

igner · 2006-02-06 21:42:22

one easy trick is to use a subdomain: dev.yourdomain.com. throw .htpasswd security on the directory, and you’re golden. When you’re ready to deploy, move (or copy) the entire subdirectory, change config.php to reflect the new path to the site, update the site url in the txp prefs (and the file upload path, if desired), and you’ll be up and running.

Of course, this assumes the subdomains are handled in the typical shared server fashion (as subdirectories of the parent domain).

Dragan · 2006-02-06 22:30:44

oh boy, I have never created a subdomain, how do I do that?

thebombsite · 2006-02-07 00:24:27

You create a subdirectory and then you should be able to go to your site’s control panel where there should be an option to create a subdomain using your new subdirectory.

Dragan · 2006-02-07 00:57:33

I expected something along those lines. :)
I am using ensimPro I believe it is called at my host, and I have the cheapest possible account so I don’t know if it is enabled for me. Thanx a lot guys.

igner · 2006-02-07 01:16:30

If I recall correctly, Ensim has an easy function to enable subdomains. And in most cases, it’s not even necessary to create the directory first.

Good luck, and have fun.

thebombsite · 2006-02-07 11:01:09

With regard to my “litle trick” above, I have tried it using /category/ as I use “clean” URLs myself but it throws a 404. I think the addition of the section to the URL is the problem.

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