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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