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Image categories on non-default page
Run into a small problem with a site I am working on. Am looking to create an image gallery using the if_category tags.
Basically, something like this:
- News images
- Sports images
- Family images
Those would be the side links, on a page called “Photos”.
By clicking on one of the links, the user should stay on the “Photos” page, and the images from the particular set should display.
The if_category tag uses the default page, which is no good in this case. I looked at the cbs_category_list plugin, but that only supports article type, not image type.
Ideas?
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#2 2008-10-20 21:02:21
- els
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Re: Image categories on non-default page
Wouldn’t this do what you want?
<txp:category_list type="image" section="photos" />(or this_section="1").
I’m assuming now that ‘photos’ is a section as well as a page. Not sure how you would use if_category though…
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Re: Image categories on non-default page
It’s not the <txp:if_category> tag itself that uses the default section, it’s that by default the category links themselves point to the default section unless you modify them. Using Els’ code above will keep the listing within the “photos” section so you need to add the <txp:if_category> tags to the page template used by that section to output the resulting list the way you want it.
Stuart
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Re: Image categories on non-default page
Thanks Els and Stuart. I was missing the obvious… Late night coding :-(
Funny thing is, I had this already on the same page: ;-)
<txp:category_list section="photos" break="br" exclude="Article-images,Retired,site-design,slideshow" type="image" wraptag="p" />Making the image gallery work is quite simple I think, but one needs 4.07 or asy_wondertag to make it work (never used it, and prefer not to start since 4.07 is around the corner).
Sample code:
<h2>Images from the <txp:category title="1" type="image" /> category:</h2>
<div id="large-image"><txp:wet_for_each_image category="<txp:category type="image" />">
<txp:upm_image form="large_images" image_id="{id}" type="image" />
</txp:wet_for_each_image></div>The <txp:category /> could pull the image category name out dynamically, which would be perfect. I’ll try it out with 4.07…
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Re: Image categories on non-default page
Try the SVN. It’s pretty stable and has the odd new tag you could practice with. ;)
Stuart
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Re: Image categories on non-default page
Hi Stuart. I did just that, because I prefer to try out the new version and learn the new tags. Its great!
And – I already created a full image gallery, using TXP tags, jQuery slideshow and thumbnails, upm_image and wet_for_each_image. What’s nice is that the side menu lists the image categories and clicking on a link brings up the images in that particular category.
4.07 really makes a huge difference – creating menus will be so much easier and the new parsing engine – fantastic.
When the site is live I will post the code on TXP Tips.
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#7 2008-10-21 20:57:22
- els
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Re: Image categories on non-default page
Jonathan, if I’m not mistaken wet_for_each_image will use the current category if you leave out the category attribute.
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Re: Image categories on non-default page
You are quite correct Els :-) Makes the code a little cleaner! Thanks.
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