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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