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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:

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hello

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

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 .

I agree. This would be a wonderful feature.

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.

Thats a horrible suggestion.

hello

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

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.

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).

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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