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textpattern sections, pages, forms

I’m trying to understand the details of textpattern.

pages – think templates

Textpattern “pages” are poorly named—they are templates. I’m going to call them templates—when you see “template”, think textpattern page.

OFTB, textpattern has the following templates:

template description
default this appears to be the page displayed when you go to the home page. The home page can list pages from multiple sections.
archive this is the default article type. There is a section called article, and the associated template is archive.

One of the key differences between the templates is the stuff that displays the content:

default 
<txp:article limit="5" />
archive 
<txp:article />

forms – think includes

Forms are chunks of html that can be included into templates, and probably other forms. I guess I would have called these includes.
Template default appears to include form default as its repeating element, as does template archive.

Form comment and form comment_form are used for comments, the latter being the actual comment input form, and the former display of the comment.

sections

Each piece of textual content—let’s call them articles—has a single section associated with it. The section defines:

site organization in that the section name is a folder / directory in your urls. Note, though, that the hiearchy is pretty flat right now, as you cannot nest sections natively. However, I’ve been nesting sections by creating new instances of textpattern in the hierarchy. Clearly I’m going to hell for this.
indirectly presentation since you can associate templates with sections.

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