[drupal-devel] [feature] Paging support for long page nodes

[robertDouglass]

Issue status update for 
http://drupal.org/node/30089
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http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/30089

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      4.6.3
 Component:    page.module
 Category:     feature requests
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Anonymous
 Reported by:  scutari
 Updated by:   robertDouglass
 Status:       patch (code needs review)

It would need a menu item to intercept the node/nid/pagenumber param,
and a filter to split the pages at a configured length. Ber is right
that this should start out as a module, and then when it has proven
itself, get integrated into core. I definitely want to see it happen
but won't get around to programming it myself anytime soon.




robertDouglass



Previous comments:
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Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:36:10 +0000 : scutari

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/submitted_page_0.patch (1.84 KB)

This is a *beta* support for paging (splitting long page nodes into
smaller chunks) using a  <!-- page --> tag.


Even in this beta stage it works flawlessly in my drupal 4.6.3.


Preview of splitted nodes is broken without some other hacks; I'll
provide them as patches if this feature request is deemed interesting.




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Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:08:21 +0000 : lennart

I find this to be an important and interesting feature!


Best wishes,
Lennart




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Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:26:03 +0000 : scutari

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/submitted_node_0.patch (692 bytes)

I'm very happy it's useful!


With this additional patch (it's against node.module) the <!-- page -->
tag is changed to <!-- pg --> in node_preview so that paging is not
triggered. The whole page in displayed instead.


Yes, it's a dirty hack, and comments are welcome if anybody knows how
to do it in a clean way.


Regards
   Marco




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Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:24:47 +0000 : sgwealti

The onion website just switched to drupal and they seem to have a pretty
good pager for their nodes.  I wonder how they did it.




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Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:32:23 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

IMO this really needs to live in a module.




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Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:54:49 +0000 : scutari

It can be done in a module using a couple of hooks, but in my opinion
it's overkill for such a small change. I think the proper place for
such a feature is core.


A new core module may be fine, too, but I would like to hear some other
comments before I
make up my mind.