This sounds like a similar problem that I was having in doing a dynamic
nav-link style. I heard lots of advice in using argv to extract from the
$midgard->uri. I never did figure out why I couldn't get argv to work,
from all I can tell, it only holds the name of the last file in the
chain in the URI, and not its extension. So, I reverted to an old Perl
fallback, regex:
<?
$topic1 = $midgard->uri;
if (preg_match("/company/", $topic1)) {
?>
<img src="/images/bullet_sm.gif" WIDTH="30" HEIGHT="9"><a
href="/company/17.htm" class="menuleft">Member Directory</a><br>
<img src="/images/bullet_sm.gif" WIDTH="30" HEIGHT="9"><a
href="/company/news/" class="menuleft">News Releases</a><br>
<img src="/images/bullet_sm.gif" WIDTH="30" HEIGHT="9"><a
href="/company/legal/" class="menuleft">Legal
Documents</a><br>
<img src="/images/bullet_sm.gif" WIDTH="30" HEIGHT="9"><a
href="/company/contact/" class="menuleft">Inquiry/Orders</a><br>
<?}?>
Adding fake html document names on the end of the URI, and
checking that also works.
Ken Pooley wrote:
>
> I was thinking of some thing a little more simple...at least from the
> outside and elegant, at some point I will figure it out and be able to
> show/explain it but I need to come up with a solution ...but what you are
> saying will work...in fact once you said that I noticed that the main
> midgard site uses this strategy or something close to it...say on the site
> links to the right where they go to "http.../topic/73.html"... the demo site
> doesn't do that,it has "hardwired" subpages, how does it work at
> www.midgard-project.org ....the problem I still seem to have is that I don't
> see the mechanism by which the topic ID gets passed to the next page,
> actually I haven't quite figured out exactly where the article ID gets
> passed either and therein is probably the problem...is this what the
> code-init does?
>
> if ($argc == 1) $id = $argv[0]; <--this has been reffered to but I am still
> not sure how it is invoked or used
> if ($id && !mgd_is_article_in_topic_tree(41, $id)) $id = 0;
> if ($id) $article = mgd_get_article($id); <--here?
> if ($id) $topic = mgd_get_topic($id); <--I tried this but haven't seen the
> desired result
> if ($article) $author = mgd_get_person($article->author);
>
> I am not sure why I am so thick on this but I think I am getting closer....
> kp
>
> ----- Original Message-----
> From: Emiliano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 11:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [midgard] damn...I thought I was getting close...
>
> Ken Pooley wrote:
>
> > I want on the subsequent page to get the articles from the sub topic..so
> > first page has topics that are linked...press link go to subtopic page and
> > list articles...my idea is that if I can use the existing topics as the
> > basis for organization then the content creators can add and subtract sub
> > topics without me having to hardwire the subpages, in my head it is like
> > using puppet sprites in director...I am working in part off of what I
> think
> > is happening with the "if..then..else" in the article statement in the
> very
> > beginning of the root page...it seems to work and sends an artcle request
> > off to the <[article2]> element, superseding the rest of the host's root
> > page....the clue from last week from Carlida was to look at the code-init
> > and that makes sense but I still need to understand what it is doing a
> > little better..that is my guess..am I close?
>
> Well you could easily do that with two active pages eg article and
> topic that expect a single parameter (art/topic id) and display that.
> if you want pretty urls you can easily add the names of all the
> subtopics
> or such after the id and ignore them:
>
> /topic/14/music/reaggea/bob-marley/, or
> /article/23765/music/reggea/bob-marley/sun-is-shining.html
>
> emile
>
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