It's the same thing I thought! But, on further review, the site has an existing
table that is periodically updated from their CRM system (automated, batch
style).
Jamie, thank you, I really appreciate the suggestion from earlier today.
Haven't had a chance to further work on it more today, but will report back to
the list when progress is made. I assume other people want to be able to pull
in existing database content in one way or another!? Hope that's not a
stretch and it helps other people out with there extension attempts.
Thanks again,
Todd
Quoting Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On second glance... what do you need from a FAQ that can't be
> accomplished with page children and a plethora of page parts?
>
> -jamie
>
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>
> > Howdy Todd,
> >
> > A combination of cloning the <r:children:each> tag (slightly lower in
> > the same file) and the metamethod you pointed out should work just
> > fine. So it would look more like:
> >
> > <r:faq:each>
> > <r:answername />
> > <r:summary />
> > </r:faq:each>
> >
> > -jamie
> >
> > On Jan 10, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Todd McGrath wrote:
> >
> >> Hello again,
> >>
> >> I'm making some progress on extensions and now I'm looking for a
> >> little push in
> >> the right direction.
> >>
> >> I'm working on an extension for displaying data from database for
> >> the FAQ
> >> section of a site using tags (mental branch).
> >>
> >> * Created a FaqExtension and include the tag:
> >>
> >> def activate
> >> Page.send :include, FaqTag
> >> end
> >>
> >> * in lib/faq_tag.rb:
> >> module FaqTag
> >> include Radiant::Taggable
> >>
> >> class TagError < StandardError; end
> >>
> >> tag "faq" do |tag|
> >> faq = Answerbookpages.find(:all)
> >> raise TagError.new("Faq cannot be found") unless faq
> >> tag.locals.faq = faq
> >> tag.expand
> >> end
> >>
> >> tag "faqhello" do |tag|
> >> "Hello #{tag.attr['name'] || 'mundo'}!"
> >> end
> >>
> >> end
> >>
> >> * "faqhello" (<r:faqhello/>) works and "faq" tag is retrieving from
> >> db.
> >> (Obviously, I have an Answerbookpages class
> >>
> >> I'm looking for some insight to take it further.
> >>
> >> In my FAQ page, I'd like to use something like the following:
> >>
> >> <r:faq>
> >> <r:answername />
> >> <r:summary />
> >> </r:faq>
> >>
> >> where "answername" and "summary" are fields in the answerbookpages
> >> table.
> >>
> >> Not sure where to begin..
> >>
> >> In the StandardTags class, I see:
> >> #
> >> # <r:url />
> >> # <r:title />
> >> # etc...
> >> #
> >> ((Page.column_names.dup << 'url') - ['class_name', 'created_by',
> >> 'updated_by']).each do |method|
> >> tag(method.to_s) do |tag|
> >> tag.locals.page.send(method)
> >> end
> >>
> >> Maybe the answer I'm looking for is something similar to this?
> >>
> >> Any thoughts or suggestions are really appreciated
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Todd
> >>
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