Q: Adding Pages to articles

By slayerment on 20 Jan 2006 at 16:45 UTC

I have an article that is around 2000 words long and was hoping I could split it up into 4 pages that each consist of 500 words. Is there some type of way I could dynamically add a "prev" and "next" link to the bottom of my articles without having to edit the actual page of each one. It would be pretty much like how it's handled on this site here. I have tried making book pages but that does not accomplish what I am looking for.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks!

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You can use the paging

merlinofchaos commented 20 January 2006 at 17:18

You can use the paging module, but that requires you to set the pagebreaks manually.

I've thought about adding a way to make it do the pagebreaks automatically, but I worried a bit that it'd take more resources than it ought to.

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Thanks for the reply. Do you

slayerment commented 20 January 2006 at 17:39

Thanks for the reply. Do you know if that is how Drupal does it on this site?

Give me an example where you

merlinofchaos commented 20 January 2006 at 19:13

Give me an example where you mean? Chances are it's via the book module, and each 'page' is a node.

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I agree that it is probably

slayerment commented 20 January 2006 at 20:49

I agree that it is probably done with nodes. I am just not sure how to dynamically do it rather than having to edit each node and hardcode the "prev" and "next" links. Something like on this page: http://drupal.org/node/11774

Thank you for your time!

Yea, that's all

merlinofchaos commented 20 January 2006 at 22:31

Yea, that's all book.module

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I've used the book module

slayerment commented 20 January 2006 at 22:37

I've used the book module and tried doing something like this by parenting pages and all that but all it seems to do is list all the links at the bottom of the parent page. I can't find any way to link child pages together.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

If you have parent page A,

merlinofchaos commented 21 January 2006 at 21:41

If you have parent page A, and pages B and C both are child pages of A, B and C will link to each other.

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To create something like the

merlinofchaos commented 20 January 2006 at 22:37

To create something like the example you cited, enable book.module

Create content -> book page

Create a page that will 'hold' all of your pages, so to speak.

Then 'add child page'. Add page 1.
Then go back to that page, and 'add child page' again. Add page 2, and so on.

Alternatively, install paging.module

Create whatever node type you like, and use  at every point you'd like to create a new page. It'll use Drupal's built in paging mechanism for the next/previous links, and tell you how many pages there are.

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