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#1 2009-03-06 13:01:06

RazvanPavel

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Registered: 2009-02-18

Posts: 6

Custom Category Page

Hya again everyone,

I have this offers page, every entry is in a category (apartments, offices stuff like that).

On the offers page I’m displaying the last 5 entries from the offers section in a main content area and the category list in a sidebar. When someone clicks on a category I want to list all the entries form that category, problem is my default page outputs some article_custom stuff only for the home page, and from what I noticed (I’m kinda new to txp) the category stuff uses the default page to output data (from what i’ve seen in other txp templates).

My question is: How can I make this category listing using a special category page?

#2 2009-03-06 13:44:39

els

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Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: Custom Category Page

You can display the category listing on a section page (in your case ‘offers’?), by using the section attribute (section="offers") in the links to your category pages (either <txp:category1 />, <txp:category2 />, <txp:category /> or <txp:category_list />).

Or you can display them on the home page, and put your code inside conditional tags, like this:

<txp:if_category>
	your code for the category pages
<txp:else />
	your code for the home page
</txp:if_category>

#3 2009-03-06 13:57:56

RazvanPavel

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Registered: 2009-02-18

Posts: 6

Re: Custom Category Page

Thanks a lot for the tip. Got the category listing done with that, and you got me looking into txp if statements and I found if_individual_article witch helped me a lot. Thanks a lot for your help :)

#4 2009-03-06 15:07:56

RazvanPavel

New Member

Registered: 2009-02-18

Posts: 6

Re: Custom Category Page

Seems my problem with this listing isn’t over yet: My categories are grouped by parents and subparents, i would like to click a parent category and get a listing of all the elements in it (subparents). How can I achieve this?

I can’t use the 2nd category because I already use it for a sell/rent feature.