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show stickies from categories OTHER than currently viewed one
In a category page, I want to display sticky articles from other categories (I’ve used stickies to create ‘category summary’ articles).
I imagined I could call a category-sensitive sticky article and in the form use the chh_related_articles plugin.
in my page template
<txp:article form="category_teaser4_others" status="sticky" limit="1" />
and in the category_teaser4_others form
<txp:chh_related_articles relation="section" form="category_teaser4" status="sticky" limit="2" />
but it seems I can’t specify the status of the related articles.
Is it possible to do this without resorting to php hijinks? I’d post this in the plugin thread but I suspect it’ll need a totally new approach.
many thanks
Stu
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#2 2008-02-25 20:13:39
- els
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Re: show stickies from categories OTHER than currently viewed one
Do I understand correctly that you want sticky articles from other categories, but in the same section? If so, wouldn’t something like this work instead of chh_related_articles (with asy_wondertag):
<txp:asy_wondertag>
<txp:article_custom section="<txp:section />" form="category_teaser4" status="sticky" limit="2" />
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Re: show stickies from categories OTHER than currently viewed one
Hi Els
That is what I’m after, yep. The method you suggest would work if I could exclude the current category, something like:
<txp:asy_wondertag>
<txp:article_custom section="<txp:section />" category!="<txp:category />" form="category_teaser4" status="sticky" limit="2" />
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#4 2008-02-25 21:24:43
- els
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Re: show stickies from categories OTHER than currently viewed one
Ah of course. A pity. Would smd_if be useful here?
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Re: show stickies from categories OTHER than currently viewed one
Looks tasty – hadn’t noticed that plugin before…
OK, so I think this should work, but naturally it doesn’t. It outputs one article – “doh!”, but nothing at all for the 2nd article call – which should pull one from 4 valid articles via the else.
Have I missed anything obvious?
page template
<txp:article form="category_teaser4" status="sticky" limit="2" />category_teaser4 form
<txp:asy_wondertag>
<txp:smd_if field="category1" operator="eq" value="<txp:category />">doh!<txp:else />
<h4><a title="browse articles in this category" href="/<txp:section />/<txp:category1 />"><txp:category1 title="1" /></a></h4>
<txp:body />
</txp:smd_if>
</txp:asy_wondertag>thanks
Stu
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Re: show stickies from categories OTHER than currently viewed one
I can of course answer that myself.
<txp:article form="category_teaser4" status="sticky" limit="2" /> is category sensitive so it would never pull an article from another unspecified cat..
<txp:article_custom form="category_teaser4" status="sticky" limit="2" /> does the trick nicely.
thanks for your help Els
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