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Use an article form to display a list of categories
I want to display a list of all the categories in a section using a custom form (this will appear on the front page of the different sections). Unfortunately, the form attribute isn’t part of the <txp:category_list /> tag nor any other category related plugin. My output should look somthing like this: 5 articles in Music (where ‘5’ is the number of articles in the category, ‘music’ the category name):
<a href="/linktocategorypage"><txp:mem_article_count /> articles in <txp:category /></a>
I thought that the <txp:article_custom /> and <txp:if_different> tags could resolve this:
<article_custom form="categorylist" section="blabla" sortby="Category" />
+ categorylist form:
<txp:if_different>
<txp:category>
<txp:asy_wondertag><txp:mem_article_count category="<txp:category1 title="1" />" /></txp:asy_wondertag>
articles in <txp:category title="1" />
</txp:category>
</txp:if_different>
but it seems that the <txp:category /> tag doesn’t want to play along (nor does sortby=“Category”), it returns nothing when called in the article form. (This technique does work with Category1 or Category2: this post similarly answers that. The only problem with this is it obviously does not display all possible categories.) Plus <txp:mem_article_count /> returns the number of articles in the section, not by category.
Any hints? Have I missed something obvious anywhere?
Maybe something between two <txp:php> tags? A new plugin? An attribute for an existing one (asy_categories maybe)?
Thanks in advance
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Re: Use an article form to display a list of categories
See stw_category_tree – it can do that.
The sortby value is deprecated and it have been changed to sort that can be assigned with multiple sort criterias etc. sort="Category1 ASC" and sort="Category1 ASC, Title DESC". Secondly, you can’t sort articles with category as there isn’t that kind of field in textpattern table, only Category1 and Category2.
Cheers!
Last edited by Gocom (2008-01-06 23:35:51)
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Re: Use an article form to display a list of categories
The <txp:category /> tag is more to do with “the category we are in”.
Last edited by thebombsite (2008-01-07 00:14:48)
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Re: Use an article form to display a list of categories
And there is also mistake in:
<txp:asy_wondertag><txp:mem_article_count category="<txp:category1 title="1" />" /></txp:asy_wondertag>Use category’s name, not the title. Also mem_article_count doesn’t even have that attribute – so why even bothering to use it. Also the txp:different contains two TXP tags. So, there would be two changing values, and therefor the content would change when category or the count changes – causing dublicate categories.
And <txp:category /> only shows the category where we are in, based on the url, not the content nor article, as Stuart pointed out.
Cheers!
Last edited by Gocom (2008-01-07 00:26:42)
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Re: Use an article form to display a list of categories
Jukka: Thanks, but this plugin outputs a list, not single elements that can be placed in a form… Do I have to hack it? (I’m php-stupid btw)
And yeah, the sort thing, silly me, thanks.
Stuart: thanks for clarifying. Makes sense why it doesn’t work that way. Wish there was a either-or-cat tag.
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Re: Use an article form to display a list of categories
right now it’s working well for only Cat1 alone like this:
<txp:if_different>
<li><txp:category1>
<txp:asy_wondertag><txp:mem_article_count category="<txp:category1 title="1" />" section="links" /></txp:asy_wondertag>
<span class="linkinfo">articles in</span>
<txp:category1 title="1" />
</txp:category1></li>
</txp:if_different>
Is it even possible to add the Cat2 in there?
Or am I totally going in the wrong direction with this?
Last edited by edemay (2008-01-07 00:33:46)
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Re: Use an article form to display a list of categories
Thanks, but this plugin outputs a list, not single elements that can be placed in a form… Do I have to hack it? (I’m php-stupid btw)
stw_category_tree has following label, labeltag, wraptag, break so you could produce you example. I don’t know what you mean by form, as the plugin can be used at any context.
Cheers!
Last edited by Gocom (2008-01-07 00:34:08)
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Re: Use an article form to display a list of categories
Wow! thanks Jukka. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work. :S It returns a bunch of:
Tag error: <txp:php> -> Warning: Missing argument 1 for category2() on line 1896
Tag error: <txp:php> -> Warning: array_keys() [
function.array-keys
]: The first argument should be an array on line 604
Tag error: <txp:php> -> Warning: array_diff() [
function.array-diff
]: Argument #1 is not an array on line 604
Tag error: <txp:php> -> Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() on line 604
Tag error: <txp:php> -> Warning: Missing argument 1 for category1() on line 1846
Tag error: <txp:php> -> Warning: array_keys() [And where do I insert the rest of the code that I stated earlier (with the working Cat1)? I’m guessing after the if_different tags right?
Btw, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me solve this. Thank you.
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Re: Use an article form to display a list of categories
btw, I solved this by hacking the cbs_category_list plugin’s output. thanks anyways.
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