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Display Articles In Specific Category Selected From Category List
I am working on a catalog. Here is what I need to achieve:
1. I have a section of Boxes with Categories of Black, Red, White, Blue.
2. Display the list of categories (colors) as links. Maybe using category_list
3. When the user clicks on a color, black for example, only the black items/articles will be displayed.
4. When the user clicks on an item/article they will go to the individual_article
I would like to use txp native tags and stay away from plugins. I’m sure it can be done using if/else tags, but I’m not sure how to put it all together.
Any help appreciated.
Art Rogue – Fine Art Photography
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Re: Display Articles In Specific Category Selected From Category List
im sure something similar to the following would work
<txp:category_list categories="your categories, in the order, you want them, to appear" />
when a category is clicked it should take you through something like:
<txp:if_article_list>
<txp:article form="a form outputting your articles/boxes"/>
</txp:if_article_list>
<txp:if_individual_article>
<txp:article form="a form outputting that single article/box"/>
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Re: Display Articles In Specific Category Selected From Category List
Like this:
<txp:if_section name="archive">
<txp:category_list label="Categories" labeltag="h2" wraptag="ul" break="li" class="category-list" />
<txp:if_category name="black">
<txp:article_custom limit="9999" form="archive-list" category="black" section="boxes" />
</txp:if_category>
<txp:if_category name="red">
<txp:article_custom limit="9999" form="archive-list" category="red" section="boxes" />
</txp:if_category>
<txp:if_category name="white">
<txp:article_custom limit="9999" form="archive-list" category="white" section="boxes" />
</txp:if_category>
</txp:if_section>
In archive-list something like:
<txp:permlink><txp:posted /> : <txp:title /></txp:permlink>
Or if you use it on section where articles are posted you can use <txp:article /> – it’s content and category sensitive.
Cheers!
EDIT. iblastoff was faster :D
Last edited by Gocom (2007-08-17 16:38:20)
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Re: Display Articles In Specific Category Selected From Category List
I can’t get it to work.
I’m getting the error: Page template index does not contain a txp:article tag in…
However, my section is not using the template index, it is using a template of default. I have a seperate template called index for my front page. Is there a setting off.
Is iblastoff’s method better. The if_category method makes more sense to me.
Last edited by mattmikulla (2007-08-17 17:57:45)
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Re: Display Articles In Specific Category Selected From Category List
How do I stop the category list from attempting to display on the front page? My layout is different on the front page.
edited
I solved the problem by assigning a section=“moulding” to my category_list tag.
<txp:category_list label="Categories" labeltag="h2" section="moulding" wraptag="ul" break="li" class="category-list" />Last edited by mattmikulla (2007-08-17 21:26:05)
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