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Displaying content on homepage from list/detail page
Hi there
Returning to Perch after a break and I'm rusty... I have two templates:
ht_poem_list.html
<perch:before>
<ul>
</perch:before>
<li>
<a href="poems.php?s=<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" />"><perch:content id="poem-title" type="text" /></a>
</li>
<perch:after>
</ul>
</perch:after>
ht_poem_detail.html
<div class="poem-box">
<h1>Words for <perch:content id="poem-season" type="text" label="Insert Season" required="true" title="true" /> <perch:content id="poem-year" type="text" label="Insert Year" required="true" title="true" /></h1>
<h2><perch:content id="poem-title" type="text" label="Poem Title" required="true" title="true" /></h2>
<perch:content id="poem-in-full" type="textarea" label="Poem in Full" html="true" editor="ckeditor" />
<h3>by <perch:content id="poem-author" type="text" label="Poem Author" required="true" title="true" /></h3>
<perch:content id="slug" for="poem-title" type="slug" suppress="true" />
</div>
<p><a href="index.php" title="Link back to the Archived Poems page">« Back to the Archived Poems page</a></p>
and I use the following on the poem index page to display a list of links which take you to the individual poem pages showing the full poem (season, title, poem in full, author)
<?php
perch_content_create('Poems', array(
'template' => 'ht_poem_detail.html',
'multiple' => true,
'edit-mode' => 'listdetail',
));
perch_content_custom('Poems', array(
'template' => 'ht_poem_list.html',
));
?>
This all works perfectly - the poem index page shows a list of link and each links to a detail page displaying the full poem and info.
I now want to display the latest poem , in full (season, title, poem in full, author - i.e just like the poem detail page), on the homepage. Would I use perch_content_custom in the same way?
Point me int he right direction please?
Thanks. Evie.
Yes, it's just the same.
Thanks Drew - I'll give it a go - working on some other pages at the moment to try and get back into the swing of things and re-ignite my brain as I've not done any CMS stuff for months.
Super - got it working - my only issue is that on the poem detail page I have a link at the bottom of the page that links back to the poem list page - this link now appears on the homepage as it's in the poem detail template. Is there a way I can use an if/else statement to change the link, so if I'm on the poem detail page make a text link to go back to the poem list page (as it is now) - else I'm on the homepage, so change the text and link to go to the poem archive - still ilinking to the same page, but with different text and link url.
Yes, do this:
and then in your template:
works a treat - thanks for the quick response - another thing struck off the to-do-list.