linking categories with sections

RepoPrez · 2009-06-09 18:56:42

I am doing some research into several CMS and I would love to use TXP as I have used it before. I have searched all over (just maybe not well enough..) and have yet to find a clear solution to problem I might have.

I want to be able to link several categories with a specific section. The idea being that a user can add content, chose a respective section, and then a category, and all of the articles under that specific category can then be listed for navigation.

Hopefully I did not confuse you. haha. but if need be I can clarify.

Thanks in advance for the help!

RepoPrez · 2009-06-11 12:22:52

can anyone help me?

…. or at least let me know if I can be more clear, or even guide me in the right direction?

I really do appreciate it. :)

colak · 2009-06-11 12:31:13

I want to be able to link several categories with a specific section. The idea being that a user can add content, chose a respective section, and then a category, and all of the articles under that specific category can then be listed for navigation.

Hi RepoPrez, this comes out of the box

regarding: all of the articles under that specific category can then be listed for navigation. check out the related_articles tag.

RepoPrez · 2009-06-11 12:50:23

this might be a good time to clarify, because after reading about the tag I am still a little bit confused.

I guess what I am trying to understand is if there is truly a way if a user adds his/her own category, add his/her own articles, is there a way to have the article links automatically grouped by category in the nav?

It seems it could be possible, but I think I am just slow going this morning. haha.

colak · 2009-06-11 13:33:35

RepoPrez wrote:

this might be a good time to clarify, because after reading about the tag I am still a little bit confused.

Hi RepoPrez

The related articles tag is article specific. ie it returns a list of articles which belong to the same category as the one on the screen.

Bloke · 2009-06-11 14:26:14

RepoPrez wrote:

[is there] a way if a user adds his/her own category, add his/her own articles

I hope I’m not misinterpreting your request here. If you assign a user sufficient rights, they can add categories to the Categories tab on the admin side; these become selectable in the Write tab. When you write an article you choose its section and assign it up to 2 categories. Once that assignment is made, the tags like <txp:article />, <txp:article_custom />, <txp:related_articles />, <txp:category />, and <txp:category_list /> help you to display content from various sections/categories.

is there a way to have the article links automatically grouped by category in the nav?

Your nav is however you design it. You can use category_list to offer a list of links to articles of a particular category. You can also use the category tag to show various category properties. Note that tag has two attributes this_section and section which should allow you to limit the categories shown to either the current section or the given section, respectively. These tags should give you enough tools to “link several categories with a specific section”, albeit indirectly via the articles themselves.

Does that help at all?

RepoPrez · 2009-06-11 14:29:30

that makes it much more clearer. Thanks all. :) much appreciated.

maverick · 2009-06-11 16:59:20

RepoPrez wrote:

I want to be able to link several categories with a specific section.

Bloke wrote:

Note that tag has two attributes this_section and section which should allow you to limit the categories shown to either the current section or the given section, respectively.

Bloke’s answer is correct (of course :D ) regarding displaying on the front end.

If you are asking whether you can assign specific categories to specific sections on the back end – ie once the user picks section1, then only a limited subset of categories would be available for the user to chose from, then I believe you would need a plugin.

I can see where some people may want the latter in order to eliminate user error.

Last edited by maverick (2009-06-11 17:01:09)

PascalL · 2009-06-11 23:55:04

ie once the user picks section1, then only a limited subset of categories would be available for the user to chose from, then I believe you would need a plugin.
I can see where some people may want the latter in order to eliminate user error.

that’s one of my only frustrations with Textpattern, and I still hesitate to build my nav with categories because of that.

maverick · 2009-06-12 01:39:35

Perhaps sed_section_fields (and glz_custom_fields)?

On the back end – sed_section_fields allows you to limit which custom fields show based on section. glz_custom_fields lets you have unlimited and defined custom fields. Then build your navigation using those on the front end?

And/or modify sed_section_fields into a sed_section_categories?

Last edited by maverick (2009-06-12 02:00:52)

jpdupont · 2009-06-12 17:27:43

You could also give a look to the adi_cat_menu plugin.

I want to be able to link several categories with a specific section. The idea being that a user can add content, chose a respective section, and then a category, and all of the articles under that specific category can then be listed for navigation.

Easily done with these plugin …

Put this on your page :

<txp:adi_cat_menu article_attr='sort="title asc"' this_section="1" section_sensitive="1" categories='<txp:category_list parent="9-cours" exclude="9-cours" wraptag="" break=","><txp:category /></txp:category_list>' />

to list here all the categories and the articles who belong to the active section, remove the categories=… part.
with the exact code above, you limit the display to the childs of the “9-cours” category.

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