Category dropdown?

dl33 · 2009-05-31 19:52:25

I am trying to create a dropdown that has all categories that are used in a certain section in it. I know that there is txp:popup but unfortunately one cannot customise the tag to a great extent.
The dropdown should link to an article_list for that particular category.

The code that I have right now is as follows

	<form action="/themen/archiv/" method="get">
		<label for="c">Themen</label><select name="c">
			<option value="category name">Category Title</option>
		</select>
		<input type="submit" value="Anzeigen" />
	</form>

When the form is submitted it sends the category selection to a article_custom tag. (category attribute)

Unfortunately I cannot list categories in the <option tags. The other problem is that I can’t get the variable out of the url into the category attribute.

els · 2009-05-31 20:50:49

dl33 wrote:

Unfortunately I cannot list categories in the <option tags.

Why not? Is something like this useful for you?

dl33 · 2009-05-31 20:57:00

Els: yeah, that was the bit that I was missing… Thanks.

dl33 · 2009-05-31 23:30:36

Missing some other bits though:

	<ul class="archive_list">
		<txp:article_custom section="themen" limit="9999" searchsticky="0" category='<txp:php>echo $_GET["c"];</txp:php>'>
			<li>
				<a href="<txp:permlink />" title="<txp:title />"><span><txp:title /></span></a><br />
				<span class="meta_date"><txp:posted/></span><txp:rss_unlimited_categories_filedunder wraptag="span" class="meta_category" section="themen" linktosection="themen" break=", "/>		    
			</li>
		</txp:article_custom>
	</ul>

I can’t retrieve the variable from the URL via php to use in the article_custom tag. (php echo returns nothing.)
I am using an article_custom inside an article that is displaying a sticky article. (Mainly because I want to keep the URL structure /section/title/?c=category)

Last edited by dl33 (2009-05-31 23:31:43)

els · 2009-05-31 23:42:55

dl33 wrote:

I am using an article_custom inside an article that is displaying a sticky article. (Mainly because I want to keep the URL structure /section/title/?c=category)

I don’t think <txp:category /> (or your php alternative) is going to work in an article context (even though the variable is in the URL). I can think of two ways to handle this:

if the category in the URL is always category1 of your article, use category='<txp:category1 />'
use a plugin to fetch the URL variable: chs_if_urlvar or adi_gps (at least the latter is still maintained).

dl33 · 2009-06-01 00:00:28

1. I think that might be the problem: I am not using either category1 or 2 but the rss_unlimited_categories pugin.
2. I tried adj_gps, with the effect that nothing happens. So it is probably the rss_unlimited_categories problem.

els · 2009-06-01 00:04:05

dl33 wrote:

So it is probably the rss_unlimited_categories problem.

Hmm… can’t help you with that I’m afraid. But maybe Adi can help you in the adi_gps plugin thread.

dl33 · 2009-06-01 00:07:49

Hmm, no worries. Thanks a lot for the help. Considering just telling the client that he can search for articles and that’s it… done, finito;-)

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Category dropdown?

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