Thread: Re: [Rest2web-develop] Section headers

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also sprach Michael Foord <mi...@pc...> [2006.08.05.1305 +0100]:
> martin f krafft wrote:
> >also sprach Michael Foord <mi...@pc...> [2006.08.05.1158 +0100]:
> > =20
> >>Yes indextree['parent'] is always None.
> >>   =20
> >
> >Ok.
> >
> > =20
> >>I *think* I see what you want to do. You want a single index page
> >>which only shows pages from the selected section. I could probably
> >>achieve that with javascript, but I wouldn't know how to do it
> >>with CSS. :-)
> >>   =20
> >
> >No no, much easier. I simply want a list of categories (let's not
> >call them sections) as defined in the root, to show up on all pages
> >of the site. I want one of those categories to be hilighted,
> >depending on where we are in the site.
> >
> >Pseudocode:
> >
> >  def current_url_matches_category(page, cat):
> >    // ...
> >
> >  print '<ol id=3D"globalsect">'
> >  for cat in indextree['categories']:
> >    if current_url_matches_category(page, cat):
> >      print '<li class=3D"current">' + cat['link title'] + '</li>'
> >    else:
> >      print '<li><a href=3D"%s">%s</a></li>' % (cat['base_url'],=20
> >      cat['link_title'])
> >
> > =20
> Hmm... on reading your pseudocode a bit more carefully.... :-)
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> You want every 'category' to have a 'base_url' as well.
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> This isn't something that is really directly available in rest2web - you=
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> want global categories and information available to every page.
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> You could then set the category for each page in a uservalue.
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> How about if I add some 'globals' to rest2web that are available in=20
> every page?

This would be a nice feature to have. Think site_title:

  <title><% title %> - <% site_title %></title>

> You would set these in the top level, and could use them from every=20
> page. Your code would look something like (in your template) :
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> <#
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> # This code will only be executed once
> # It could be kept in an external module and imported
> if not categories in globalValues:
>    categories =3D {}
>    categories['category 1'] =3D {'base_url': '/url1',
>                                              'link_title': 'link title 1'}
>    categories['category 2'] =3D {'base_url': '/url2',
>                                              'link_title': 'link title=20
> 2'} =20
>    globalValues['categories'] =3D categories
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> #>
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> Feel free to suggest a better name than globalValues. :-)
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> You could find a better way of setting up the categories than hardcoding=
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> them into your code, based on the other values available to you. *You*=20
> still have to decide which is the base url for your categories though.

Well, I think that subdirectories would make perfect sense.

Now I have to figure out how to use the indextree structure:

  - how do I get a page's uservalues? In an earlier mail, you told
    me to use indextree['namespace']['myvalue'], but there is no
    item 'namespace' in the indextree structure.
  - how do I get at other restindex values? For instance, if
    I needed to read a page's page-title, how would I do that.

> If you then set a 'category' uservalue in each page, your pseudocode=20
> becomes :
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> <#
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>  print '<ol id=3D"globalsect">'
>  for (catName, cat) in globalValues['categories'].items():
>    if category =3D=3D catName:
>      print '<li class=3D"current">' + cat['link_title'] + '</li>'
>    else:
>      print '<li><a href=3D"%s">%s</a></li>' % (cat['base_url'],=20
> cat['link_title'])
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> #>
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> How does that seem ?

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list).

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