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How to list links in child categories?
Geez, I’m feeling TXP-clueless today I guess.
What I’d like to do is output a simple list of links. I have a general category set up (“Elsewhere”) as a parent category, and a few child categories, such as “Food” and “Wine”. I set it up this way because I want my client to be able to add child categories, and have them appear in the link list, which I was trying to output with:
<txp:linklist form="Links" category="Elsewhere" limit="12" sort="linksort" />But I suppose because the parent category doesn’t itself contain any links, that outputs nothing. Is there a way to force <txp:linklist /> to output links in child categories?
Thanks in advance.
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#2 2009-08-19 19:20:41
- uli
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Re: How to list links in child categories?
Does this get you any further:
<txp:linklist form="Links" limit="12" sort="linksort" category='<txp:category_list type="link" exclude="cat1" break=","><txp:category /></txp:category_list>' />
(not yet tested)
Have a look at the exclude and category attributes of category_list.
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#3 2009-08-19 19:31:16
- els
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Re: How to list links in child categories?
Nora, here is a TXP Tip that does about the same thing for files. I think you can easily modify that code to work with links.
Oh, and don’t use capitals in category names (category="Elsewhere").
Last edited by els (2009-08-19 19:35:53)
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Re: How to list links in child categories?
Of course! TXP tags as attributes are so money! Here’s what I ended up with:
<txp:linklist form="Links" limit="12" category='<txp:category_list type="link" parent="elsewhere" break="," ><txp:category title="0" /></txp:category_list>' sort="linksort" />Thanks folks.
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