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Differentiating if you are viewing a section or a category
Hi guys, I’ve hit a wall here, I am building a site that has the following structure:
- home (site.com)
-- section (site.com/section/)
--- category and section (site.com/section?c=category)As you can see – I am using categories as subsections where a number of categories can belong to one section.
site.com/section/ should only show a static page – I have made it a sticky article, put it in the appropriate section, no categories assigned
site.com/section?c=category should show an intro article for that category followed by a list of articles from that same category. I made the intro article sticky, put it in the appropriate section and assigned it a category.
What I don’t understand is – I am obviously always in article list view – I never view individual articles and I think that is causing problems. I need code that will differentiate between the two stickies (the one that doesn’t have a category assigned should be displayed when site.com/section/ is viewed, and the one with the category assigned should be shown when site.com/section/?c=category is viewed).
So far I am using this but it’s obviously not working (from my pagetemplate):
<txp:if_category name="corporate-finance"><txp:article_custom status="sticky" category="corporate-finance" limit="1" />
<txp:article form="subArticle" limit="999" sort="Posted Asc" status="live" category="corporate-finance" /><txp:else /><txp:article_custom limit="1" status="sticky" id="14" /></txp:if_category>As you can see I am in an act of desperation even tried to specifically assign categories from which the stickies should be pulled, but as soon as I need multiple categories per section this code doesn’t work like I want it to (it doubles [triples, quadruples…] the (not in category) sticky).
Last edited by draganbabic (2008-02-19 16:57:03)
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Re: Differentiating if you are viewing a section or a category
OK, this code seems to do the trick, but I still don’t know how to show the section sticky for the site.com/section/ page.
<txp:if_category><txp:asy_wondertag><txp:article_custom status="sticky" category="<txp:category />" limit="1" /></txp:asy_wondertag>
<txp:asy_wondertag><txp:article form="subArticle" limit="999" sort="Posted Asc" status="live" category="<txp:category />" /></txp:asy_wondertag><txp:else />You are viewing a section</txp:if_category>Offline
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It could work be default if you ensured that the section article was created after the category article or modified the date to make it so. Then you could use <txp:article status="sticky" limit="1" /> after the “else” tag. Not perfect as it requires a bit of forward planning. ;)
Last edited by thebombsite (2008-02-19 17:55:12)
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Ahh, that is what I feared. :) It seems it will have to be like that.
PS
How the heck did we ever live without the asy_wondertag before? nowadays I can’t seem to do anything without it. :P
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I have no idea Dragan. It’s one of those things that should be considered for the core code at some point along with Ruud’s CSS plug-in.
Anyway I should hang on in case someone has a bright idea about your problem. :)
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^ Definitely. But Ruud’s CSS plugin – I’m not aware of it, could you please provide me with a link so I can check it out?
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Yep. Here it is.
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Wow, that’s good stuff, thanks!
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#9 2008-02-19 20:36:06
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Re: Differentiating if you are viewing a section or a category
Have you tried this?
<txp:if_category>
<txp:asy_wondertag><txp:article_custom status="sticky" category="<txp:category />" limit="1" /></txp:asy_wondertag>
<txp:article form="subArticle" limit="999" sort="Posted asc" status="live" />
<txp:else />
<txp:article status="sticky" />
</txp:if_category>(You don’t need asy_wondertag for the first article tag.)
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Re: Differentiating if you are viewing a section or a category
#Els Yeah – that’s what I ended up with. Thanks.
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A strange behavior – when I put gbp_permanent_links plugin to work articles wont list (the live ones). I have had this problem with categories (they wouldn’t list) but this is the first time so far with artcles. My rewrite rule is /section/category/ (No /article/ at the end because I don’t have individual articles.) Any hints?
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This is the code I ended up with – gbp_permanent_links work too:
<txp:if_category><txp:asy_wondertag><txp:article status="sticky" category="<txp:category />" limit="1" /></txp:asy_wondertag>
<txp:asy_wondertag><txp:article_custom form="subArticle" limit="999" sort="Posted Asc" status="live" category="<txp:category />" /></txp:asy_wondertag><txp:else /><txp:article status="sticky" limit="1" /></txp:if_category>Offline