Spliting article into multiple pages

Ibis Fernandez · Post by **Ibis Fernandez** » Wed 14. Jul 2004, 22:39

Is it even posible to have my HUGE articles be spread across multiple pages. like at the bottom or top part of the page have a menu for the various pages:

<< 1 2 3 4 5 >>

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Wed 14. Jul 2004, 23:03

hello

as far as i know this is not possible at the moment!

Ibis Fernandez · Post by **Ibis Fernandez** » Wed 14. Jul 2004, 23:55

Im no php whiz but wouldn't this be a simple matter of telling the script to only display x number of content parts per page and generate the menu based on the number of pages created... I dont know maybe it's the most diffult thing ever LOL... darn it after all that work. i was actually sure this was available as a feature. Provably wouldnt have gone this far if I knew ahead of time

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rookie · Post by **rookie** » Wed 14. Jul 2004, 23:58

I agree. This would be a wonderful feature.

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Thu 15. Jul 2004, 00:00

The only way I can see is to split your huge article into multiple smaller articles, with each one linking to the other through the [ID x]next..[/ID] tag..

Not ideal but that's the only way i've seen to do it.

Ibis Fernandez · Post by **Ibis Fernandez** » Thu 15. Jul 2004, 00:28

Thats a horrible suggestion.

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Thu 15. Jul 2004, 00:34

hello

this was also an earlier Q, but i don't knwo if this will come! maybe post again in feat. request.

duergner · Post by **duergner** » Thu 15. Jul 2004, 10:12

When I've got the time today afternoon I'll try to implement something like that in Olivers code. Shouldn't be really hard I suppose.

DeXXus · Post by **DeXXus** » Thu 15. Jul 2004, 12:06

Until something "specific" comes along, you might try creating ~descending~ sub-categories with a simple breadcrumb template maybe?

The breadcrumb would look like this:

Home > Article Title > Article Page 1 > Article Page 2 > Article Page 3 > ETC.

So navigation through article would be clickable down the breadcrumb

The site structure (using sub-categories) would be something like:

- index (website start)
--> - Article Title
----> - Article Page 1
------> - Article Page 2
--------> - Article Page 3
-----------> + ETC.

These subcategories could be assigned a template that, in it's simplest form, used {BREADCRUMB} and {CONTENT} replacement tags only, in the MAIN section of template. The sub-categories would each have at least one "content part" for continuation of each subsequent article page (more "content parts" if needed).

1996 328ti · Post by **1996 328ti** » Fri 16. Jul 2004, 02:42

Ibis Fernandez wrote:Thats a horrible suggestion.

Why is it horrible? How else would people navigate from page to page?

Using the << 1 2 3 4 5 >> idea, how about using basic html to link to the next article?

duergner · Post by **duergner** » Fri 16. Jul 2004, 09:55

But the problem is not with lots of articles but with one article that has lots of content parts. Unfortunatelly I didn't have the time yesterday and now I'm away during the weekend, but I'll try to hack something ASAP.

Should be here during monday CEST I suppose.

1996 328ti · Post by **1996 328ti** » Fri 16. Jul 2004, 13:52

Now I see your point.

I have an article with several parts and it is longer than I would like.

I wonder if a solution would be to create a hidden sub category in the menu , break up the articles manually. Place the first article in the viewable category and the remaining articles in the hidden cub-category. Then use link articles or something like that. It's cumbersome but may work until something better comes along.

marco · Post by **marco** » Fri 16. Jul 2004, 16:57

No need to reinvent the wheel, there are already lots of scripts that do dynamic data pagination; here are a few links:

http://www.php-india.net/modules.php?na ... icle&sid=4
[First Page] Prev < | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | > Next [Last Page]

http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/pagination.html
(<<first <prev 1 of 10 next> last>>)
This one has two examples, an easy one and a harder one.

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Paginati ... -with-PHP/

You can find many, many more scritps doing a Google search for "php article pagination script" or something similar.

Somebody who knows php and wcms could probably easily integrate one of these existing scripts.

pixelpeter · Post by **pixelpeter** » Fri 16. Jul 2004, 22:39

I've build a paginator

but it's just beta. The hardest thing to ge it to work is the reg-ex because I'm using ###NEXTPAGE### in the content to determine the next page. So the pagination is not really the problem

Take a look at http://phpwcms.pixelpeter.de/index.php?paginatorexample

pSouper · Post by **pSouper** » Sat 17. Jul 2004, 23:16

it looks realy very cool PP> what is reg-ex? why is it a problem and what is not working with it as it is? (as of 17|7 10:15gmt)

and would {pagebreak} not be a nice reptag for it?

just being silly now, you use what ever you like

Spliting article into multiple pages

Spliting article into multiple pages

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