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Re: link_to_next & prev within a category?
yes I agree, it is a shortcoming at the moment. If one were able to use section/category/title urls then I imagine it would work with the normal txp commands (as the category context is then always given). Unfortunately, this combination is not currently supported at the moment.
The other related area I’ve found difficult to achieve is being able to filter by two categories, i.e. look for items (articles) according to type and location. This kind of search combination is fairly common in a non-blog environment, but I’ve only got part of the way there using similarly complex trickery.
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#17 2006-06-23 16:17:18
- reptilerobots
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Re: link_to_next & prev within a category?
Jakob – I restructured some things on my site, I just have everything lumped together instead of separate. Anyways, instead of assigning “new” to category 2, I am using a custom field called “new”. If the value is “new” it shows a dagger next to the article!
Thanks for your advice.
<code>
<txp:if_custom_field name=“new”>
<div class=“article”><txp:permlink><h2><txp:title /></h2><txp:excerpt /><h4><txp:category1 /></h4></txp:permlink><h5>†</h5></div>
<txp:else />
<div class=“article”><txp:permlink><h2><txp:title /></h2><txp:excerpt /><h4><txp:category1 /></h4></txp:permlink></div>
</txp:if_custom_field>
</code>
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Re: link_to_next & prev within a category?
yes, in your case it’s essentially a flag rather than a category. Not really important, but you could shorten your code by starting your if_custom_field just before h5 as that seems to be the only bit that changes.
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#19 2010-04-14 15:47:07
- inkywillow
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Re: link_to_next & prev within a category?
Hi all, did anybody ever find a simple solution to this problem?
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#20 2010-04-14 17:22:16
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Re: link_to_next & prev within a category?
Would smd_horizon do what you want?
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Re: link_to_next & prev within a category?
You can try this tip
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#22 2010-04-14 18:51:10
- inkywillow
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Re: link_to_next & prev within a category?
Hi Els,
I’m not sure.
I basically have a section called shop and each item (article) in it can have two categories assigned to it. ie A chair could be in both “Handmade” and “Furniture”.
The problem is when viewing the individual article the next and previous buttons scroll through ALL items in the shop section, jumping categories as it where.
What I would like to do is restrict the next and previous buttons to scrolling through just the first category chosen (from the main navigation).
Here’s the website in question www.outoflove.co.uk
Any pointers would be appreciated!
Tom
@The_ghost I think we posted at the same time, I’ll take a look, thanks.
Last edited by inkywillow (2010-04-14 18:54:37)
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#23 2010-04-14 21:24:06
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Re: link_to_next & prev within a category?
Did you look at the plugin? As far as I know that is what it can do.
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#24 2010-04-15 18:15:14
- inkywillow
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Re: link_to_next & prev within a category?
Yeah, I tried the code below.
The problem seems to be with using two categories. When you view an item, the next and previous results are restricted (correctly) to the “Current” two categories and all works well until you hit an item using a third category, this then becomes one of the two current categories. For example if you have an item from “Furniture” and its second category is “Handmade” the next and previous buttons would (at this point) scroll through all items in “Furniture” and “Handmade” but when you got to an item in say “Handmade” and “Gifts” the “Current” sections would now become “Handmade” and “Gifts”.
I think that I am going to have to change this to use only category1 and have just one category per item.
<txp:chh_if_data>
<div class="left"><p><txp:chh_if_data><txp:smd_prev category='<txp:category1 />,<txp:category2 />'><txp:smd_if_start><txp:else /><a href="<txp:permlink />">« Previous item</a></txp:smd_if_start></txp:smd_prev></txp:chh_if_data></p></div>
<div class="right"><p> <txp:chh_if_data><txp:smd_next category='<txp:category1 />,<txp:category2 />'><txp:smd_if_end><txp:else /><a href="<txp:permlink />">Next item »</a></txp:smd_if_end></txp:smd_next></txp:chh_if_data></p></div>
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