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two matching categories as article selection criteria
i need to make a selection criteria, which basically selects display of certain articles, because they belong to two certain categories, say “mr-bimsenstein” AND “red-hat”.
could anyone point me into the right direction, preferrably without using another plug?
thanx much!
EDIT: i guess i need be more explaining, following above example.
i am trying to get articles, which belong to both categories like this
in page
<txp:if_category name=“mr-bimsenstein”>
<txp:output_form form=“filter_another_cat” />
</txp:if_category>
in form “filter_another_cat”
<txp:article_custom section=“onesection” category=“red-hat”>
that doesn’t work.
displayed articles belong to the category in the form, but are not restricted by the page code, that calls it. hmm.. anyone?
Last edited by jayrope (2006-11-09 12:52:26)
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#2 2006-11-09 18:06:41
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Re: two matching categories as article selection criteria
Is ‘mr-bimsenstein’ always category1 and ‘red-hat’ always category2 (or the other way around of course)? In that case I think you can do it like this:
<txp:if_category name="mr-bimsenstein">
<txp:article listform="filter_another_cat" />
</txp:if_category>Form ‘filter_another_cat’:
<txp:if_article_category number="2" name="red-hat">
<txp:title />
<txp:body />
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Re: two matching categories as article selection criteria
Or you can filter out one of the categories by setting the category attribute in the article tag (faster because the filtering happens earlier, in MySQL). Doesn’t matter which is category1 and which is category2, if the only requirement is that both match.
<txp:article_custom form="filter_another_cat" category="mr-bimsenstein" />Form ‘filter_another_cat’:
<txp:if_article_category name="red-hat">
<txp:title />
<txp:body />
</txp:if_article_category>Last edited by ruud (2006-11-09 18:51:17)
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Re: two matching categories as article selection criteria
Both good ideas. Alternatively you might want to try the plug-in chh_article_custom which allows for category="this,that&mine" notation. There are some caveats: see the attribute ref page.
Last edited by jakob (2006-11-09 20:51:33)
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