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#1 2010-05-26 14:17:55
- leafy_loader
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List sub category articles along with parent category articles
I’m sure this is a simple one but for the life of me I can’t work it out.
I have articles stored under various categories. Some categories have child categories with articles assigned. All I want to do is list the title and body of all articles on one page, both from parent and child categories.
At the moment all I seem to be able to do is list the parent category articles.
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Re: List sub category articles along with parent category articles
All I want to do is list the title and body of all articles on one page
Are you sure? That will list virtually all site content.
Yiannis
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#3 2010-05-26 17:51:55
- els
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Re: List sub category articles along with parent category articles
<txp:article_custom category='<txp:category_list parent="yourparentcategory" break=","><txp:category /></txp:category_list>'>
<h3><txp:title /></h3>
<txp:body />
</txp:article_custom>If ‘yourparentcategory’ should be the current category (if you are on a category page), do this:
category='<txp:category_list parent=''<txp:category />'' break=","><txp:category /></txp:category_list>'Offline
Re: List sub category articles along with parent category articles
Hello Els,
Can your snippet above be used to generate something like this, on a parent category landing page:
Child Category 1
List of articles (formatted using a form)
Link to all articles in this child category
Child Category 2
List of articles (formatted using a form)
Link to all articles in this child category
Child Category 3
List of articles (formatted using a form)
Link to all articles in this child category
Appreciate it!
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#5 2010-09-07 18:42:40
- els
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Re: List sub category articles along with parent category articles
Hi Husain,
If you want to display the category titles as well, I think something like this would be better:
<txp:category_list parent='<txp:category />' exclude='<txp:category />' break="">
<!-- Child Category -->
<txp:category title="1" />
<!-- List of articles (formatted using a form) -->
<txp:article_custom category='<txp:category />' form="yourform" />
<!-- Link to all articles in this child category -->
<txp:article_custom category='<txp:category />'>
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
</txp:article_custom>
</txp:category_list>Note that the <txp:category /> used as a value for the attributes in the category_list tag indicate the current category (i.e. the category that is in the URL of the current page); the <txp:category /> tags inside the category_list opening and closing tags indicate the current category in the list.
Hmm… reading it over I’m not so sure I made myself clear… ;)
Edit: I added break="" in the category_list tag because if you leave that attribute out it will automatically add <br />s after every list item.
Last edited by els (2010-09-07 18:46:19)
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Re: List sub category articles along with parent category articles
It sounds all clear to me Els! Will check this out and share my Ahas :)
Just one thing though, guess I wasn’t clear – the third item, “Link to all articles in this child category” is actually a “Show all articles in this category” … another landing page for that child category. So, would this work:
<txp:category title=“1” link=“1”>All articles in this category</txp“category>
Cheers,
Husain
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#7 2010-09-07 20:26:42
- els
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Re: List sub category articles along with parent category articles
Ah, I misunderstood that ;)
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