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Aug 13, 2004, 3:24 AM

ukseo

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Aug 13, 2004, 3:24 AM

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Related Categories/Detail Pages for Individual Detail Pages

Hello

I am using Andy's Build Detail pages an and I have made it so that a new detail feild is used to build the detailed content and that the links.htm page knows the difference between what is an article and what is a link.

Now when I add new detail page I would like to be able to relate different catgeories and/or different individual links/detail pages.

This strikes me as being possible, but a little beyond the hacking that I do. Has such a beast been done before? Or any ideas

Cheers

Aug 13, 2004, 3:58 AM

Andy

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Aug 13, 2004, 3:58 AM

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Now when I add new detail page I would like to be able to relate different catgeories and/or different individual links/detail pages.

Not sure what you mean?

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Aug 13, 2004, 4:05 AM

ukseo

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Aug 13, 2004, 4:05 AM

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Hehehe not the easiest to describe.

Attempt two:

Imagine that I have a way of building detail pages (with your plug in :)) and on that detail page I would like to add related other detail pages or categories.

So when I add a new link that is set to create a detail page I can do the same process as related categories either by a big long drop down (would allow only one) or similar to the related categories.

Then when the detail page is created, at the bottom of the text (or wherever) the related links/categories are added.

Am I getting clearer :)

Aug 13, 2004, 4:12 AM

Andy

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Aug 13, 2004, 4:12 AM

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So on the detailed page, you would like a list of related categories for this link?

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Aug 13, 2004, 4:23 AM

ukseo

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Aug 13, 2004, 4:23 AM

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Yep, thats is and maybe links to related links also (detail pages)

Cheers

Aug 13, 2004, 4:42 AM

Andy

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Aug 13, 2004, 4:42 AM

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Hi. You could try this for the other categories a link is in;

Code:
sub {  
  my $tag = shift;  
  my $table = $DB->table ('CatLinks','Category');  
  my $name = $table->select ( { LinkID => $tags->{ID} } )->fetchrow_hashref;  

  my $back; 
  while (my $hit = $name->fetchrow_hashref) { 
     $back .= Links::SiteHTML::display('subcategory',$hit); 
  } 

  return $back;  
}

Just call it with <%global_name%>.

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Aug 13, 2004, 4:55 AM

ukseo

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Aug 13, 2004, 4:55 AM

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Cheers Andy

I must be a real dimwit. I dont follow that at all Tongue

Aug 13, 2004, 5:01 AM

Andy

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Aug 13, 2004, 5:01 AM

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You need to add that global into LSQL, with Build > Template Globals, and then at the bottom of that page, there is space to add your own global.

Then, you need to click on "User Tempaltes", and find the detailed.html template, and put;

<%global_name%>

....in. Obviously replace "global_name" with the actual name you gave it =)

Hope thats a bit clearer.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk