Category Links

jammer · 2009-02-03 16:14:38

I know there’s a probability this question has been asked before, but I cannot find the answer anywhere.

I created my Categories, and I link them to respective Sections through the articles I write. When I view the website, click on the Section link and view the articles, the articles appear just fine.

When I click on the category link at the end of the article however, I get an empty page with only the Category title at the top.

Can someone please help me. I would like the articles for that Category/Section to be listed when I click these Category links.
Is there a way I can do that.

Thanks….

MJ

els · 2009-02-03 16:44:48

I think the solution in this thread will help you.

jammer · 2009-02-03 17:44:23

Thanks for your response.

I’ve done all that following all the instructions, but the Category List and the Articles appear on the same page.

Also, when I click on one of the Categories, the article list for the Category I click on appear below the list of Section/Categories…
on that same page instead of on a page of its own.

This happens when I put the <txp:article > tag in the “Page” I use to call up the respective Section.

MJ

jammer · 2009-02-03 19:01:18

I also notice that clicking on a Category Link from the FrontPage, gives the exact result I’m trying to get,
but clicking on a Category link from a Section Page results in a page with ONLY the Category Title.

MJ

els · 2009-02-03 21:20:43

jammer wrote:

I’ve done all that following all the instructions, but the Category List and the Articles appear on the same page.

Also, when I click on one of the Categories, the article list for the Category I click on appear below the list of Section/Categories… on that same page instead of on a page of its own.

Can you post the code you have on that page? You’ll probably need a couple of conditional tags.

I also notice that clicking on a Category Link from the FrontPage, gives the exact result I’m trying to get, but clicking on a Category link from a Section Page results in a page with ONLY the Category Title.

The section attribute to link to a category page for a particular section can be used both in <txp:category1 /> (+category2) as <txp:category_list />.

jammer · 2009-02-04 00:17:19

Here is the code…

<txp:category_list parent=’<txp:section />’ exclude=’<txp:section />’
this_section=“1”
label=“Categories”
type=“article”
break=“li”
wraptag=“ul”
/>

<txp:if_section>
<txp:if_category name=’<txp:category />’> <txp:article_custom category=’<txp:section />’ form=“article_listing” />
<txp:else />
<txp:article_list />

</txp:if_category>

<txp:else />
</txp:if_section>

It loads everything properly, it just loads everything on the same page

MJ

els · 2009-02-04 00:53:22

Would this do what you want?

<txp:if_section>
	<txp:if_category name='<txp:category />'>
		<txp:article_custom category='<txp:section />' form="article_listing" />
	<txp:else />
		<txp:category_list parent='<txp:section />' exclude='<txp:section />' 
		this_section="1"
		label="Categories"
		type="article"
		break="li" 
		wraptag="ul" 
		/>
	</txp:if_category>
</txp:if_section>

<txp:article_list /> is not an existing tag. What did you want it to do?

jammer · 2009-02-04 01:28:27

“<txp:article_list /> is not an existing tag. What did you want it to do?”

I was just trying something out with that because with “<txp:article />” in that location, I get the exact result of the code you suggested.

With your code, I get the a list of the Category articles. What I want to get is a listing of all the Categories in a particular Section, then when I click on a particular category, THEN I get a page returned with the articles.

So when I click on say..“Meat” Section, I get a list of Categories of say..“Chicken, Beef, Pork”. Then when I ckick on Category “Chicken”, I get a list of all articles under category “Chicken”.

Is there a way I can get that done…

Thanks

MJ

jammer · 2009-02-04 16:24:49

Hello,

Can anyone please help me out with this problem. I’ve been trying but I keep getting the same result every time.

Thanks

MJ

els · 2009-02-04 18:01:02

jammer wrote:

What I want to get is a listing of all the Categories in a particular Section, then when I click on a particular category, THEN I get a page returned with the articles.

Where do you want that list of categories? Because what my code does, is display the list of categories on a section page, and, when a category is clicked, display the articles in that category on the section page. Try replacing it with this (should do the same as far as I can see):

<txp:if_section>
	<txp:if_category>
		<txp:article form="article_listing" />
	<txp:else />
		<txp:category_list parent='<txp:section />' exclude='<txp:section />' 
		this_section="1"
		label="Categories"
		type="article"
		break="li" 
		wraptag="ul" 
		/>
	</txp:if_category>
</txp:if_section>

If you want it on the front page, just remove the if_section tags at the beginning and end of the code (but then the parent='<txp:section />' exclude='<txp:section />' part won’t work).

Last edited by els (2009-02-04 18:02:33)

jammer · 2009-02-04 22:48:05

Thank you soooooooo much. Works exactl how I want it to work. Now I just have to clean up my code a bit.

I’m still puzzled however, as to why the “category” tags at the bottom of each article yeilds a blank page when clicked on…?

Thanks again…
MJ

els · 2009-02-04 23:16:47

jammer wrote:

I’m still puzzled however, as to why the “category” tags at the bottom of each article yeilds a blank page when clicked on…?

It would help if you told which tags are generating the links to those blank pages… But my guess is, that it’s <txp:category1 /> and <txp:category2 /> in your article form that need an attribute section or this_section.

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