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TXP 4.0.4 is out
That’s right folks. New and improved, textpattern version 4.0.4 is now available!
10/17/2006 | Keep Reading | Comments
Adding support for the link_text tag in Textpattern
I’m currently working on a client site that’s running Textpattern. While working on their proverbial “links” page, for probably the first time, I needed to display the actual URL that each link points to.
So, I grabbed the <txp:link_text /> tag and put it into the Links form. Surprisingly, this resulted in an error due to the simple fact that Textpattern presently lacks support for the <txp:link_text /> tag.
Ater some brief Googling, I found a solution here, however, it was in German. So here’s an English translation…
01/11/2006 | Keep Reading | Comments [2]
Uploading large-sized files in Textpattern
Textpattern 4.01 has a host of amazing new features (many of which were previewed in RC3), including file uploads.
For people who want to upload PDF documents, the file upload feature is fantabulous. I thought the same thing until I found out that most web hosts only allow max file uploads of 2 megs.
Until I can convince my webhost to up this figure, here’s what I’ve been doing to get around this hassle:
- Upload a bogus PDF file through Textpattern, but name it whatever you called the large-sized PDF you want to upload.
- Upload the real PDF via FTP into the “files” directory on your server, overwriting the bogus file.
Because Textpattern stores a reference to the PDF by file name in the database, Textpattern will now reference the large-sized PDF you just uploaded.
I know this is a bit hackish, and it practically defeats the purpose, except in cases where you’ve got a bunch of PDFs in a category which you are using Textpattern to generate a list of somewhere on your site.
If you’ve found a better solution, or web host, please feel free to share yours.
09/26/2005 | Keep Reading | Comments
- October 2006
- 17: TXP 4.0.4 is out
- January 2006
- 11: Adding support for the link_text tag in Textpattern
- September 2005
- 26: Uploading large-sized files in Textpattern
- August 2005
- 15: Just joined the party: Textpattern 4.0
- July 2005
- 25: TXP RC4 Released
- June 2005
- 10: Tables with Textile
- 09: A TXP Problem - Solved
- 09: No Problem