Hi ryan,

I was trying to set up index.py for my pyblosxom installation as I did for all the other plugins (pycalendar, pyarchives, comments, etc.).

In all those cases, I for example had to put `$calendar' into my flavour file (head.html) in this paritcular case which does look like

  "<div class=\"menu\">
  <div class=\"menuhead\">
  Calendar
  </div>
  <div class=\"menubody\">
  $calendar
  </div>
  </div>"

THE QUESTION:
I wasn't able to set up index.py for some reason I don't know yet. Well, index.py is in place as pycalendar.py etc. is so I think thats all fine. What I don't understand is this "index_trigger" thing and how do I integrate this into my flavour file? Can you maybe add this to the doc string of index.py?

TIA Markus :)

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cya folks

hi markus! currently, index.py produces a pyblosxom entry, rendered from scratch each time, as output. from pyblosxom's point of view, the only difference between index.py and a normal blog post is that index.py generates its own content, while a blog post is read from disk.

so, you can't integrate index.py's output into one of your flavour's template files. instead, it's available at a hard-coded path, which you specify in the index_trigger config variable. by default, it's /site_index.

the index for most sites will be pretty big, so it wouldn't really make sense to include it in a template and render it on every page.

you're right, i could probably make this clearer in the docstring.

Hi Ryan!
Thanks for answering. You're right, of course I had to go for the hard-coded path (this works fine now).

I am quite happy with index.py but there is still something I wasn't able to figure.

PROBLEM:
In "config.py" I have those entries
## pyindex
py['index_trigger']  = '/blog-index'
py['index_num_columns']  = 4
py['index_letters_first']  = True
py['index_title']  = 'Index, alphabetically listing all posts.'
py['index_use_story_template'] = True

Everytime I change the columns (set to 4 right now) it takes effect. But the 'index_title' does not ... how come?

To get a notion how my setup looks like corresponding to the code above I have made a Screenshot so you can see I get 4 columns but no change in the title.

Copy paste it to your webbrowser
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2203/mywebsitecf2.png

Ciao,
Markus

oops, that was a bug. index_title wasn't playing nice with index_use_story_template. i've fixed it, and i've posted a new version of index.py. thanks for the catch!

Great! I've downloaded v0.2. All works fine now! The index_title issue is gone.

Thank you and keep up your great work! :)