if_category listings - landing page help

kvnmcwebn · 2010-05-29 18:00:45

Hi I’m creating a directory page with a category list.
Everyting is working except that i don’t wan a list of articles on the initial landing page.
But since the initial landing page is not a category the below code will display a list of articles.
I thought i could do something with the “On front page” setting switched to “no” but it’s not working I don’t know.

<txp:if_category>
 <h2><txp:category title="1" /></h2>
   <txp:article limit="5" wraptag="div" form="plain_listing"  >
      <h3><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></h3>
      <txp:excerpt />
   </txp:article>
  <txp:else />
<txp:article_custom form="plain_listing" />
</txp:if_category>
<txp:output_form form="category_list" />(this is the form with the category list)

I would like something like:

"<txpif_landing page">
<txp:article_custom id="1" />
<txp:else />
<txp:if_category>
 <h2><txp:category title="1" /></h2>
   <txp:article limit="5" wraptag="div" form="plain_listing"  >
      <h3><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></h3>
      <txp:excerpt />
   </txp:article>
  <txp:else />
<txp:article_custom form="plain_listing" />
</txp:if_category>

<txp:output_form form=“category_list” />

Last edited by kvnmcwebn (2010-05-29 18:01:27)

els · 2010-05-29 18:19:51

Hi Kevin, what is the landing page if it’s not a category page? Section page? Front page?

kvnmcwebn · 2010-05-30 09:48:08

hi els,
it’s a section page.

els · 2010-05-30 11:24:05

If I understand you correctly, something like this should work:

<txp:if_section name="yoursection">
	<txp:if_category>
		<h2><txp:category title="1" /></h2>
		<txp:article limit="5" wraptag="div">
			<h3><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></h3>
			<txp:excerpt />
		</txp:article>
	<txp:else />
		<txp:if_individual_article>
			<txp:article form="yoursinglearticleform" />
		<txp:else />
			<txp:article_custom id="1" />
		</txp:if_individual_article>
	</txp:if_category>
	<txp:output_form form="category_list" />
</txp:if_section>

If you need this for more than one section, change name="yoursection" to name='<txp:section />'.
If you have a separate page template for your section, you can of course leave out the if_section tags.

BTW, you can’t have a form attribute in your article tag if it’s used as a container tag.

Last edited by els (2010-05-30 11:28:31)

kvnmcwebn · 2010-05-30 12:09:02

Thanks els! That works brilliantly.

kvnmcwebn · 2010-06-01 23:32:10

Hi El’s.
If you have a minute – How would this work if it was a category page? I have another section in the site with a category drop down like this:

<li> <txp:section link="1" title="1" name="shop"  />
<txp:category_list parent="shop" wraptag="ul"  break="li" />
</li>

when I select one of the drop down categories it goes to a category page which just goes to my error page. heres the url

http://www.mybetasite.com/category/clothing/

How could I get an articles and article lists to show up on that category page?

els · 2010-06-02 07:14:05

Does adding section="shop" to the category_list tag help?

kvnmcwebn · 2010-06-02 08:34:51

Hi Els the articles are all ready part of another section so that won’t work.
I’m gonna have to rethink this.

els · 2010-06-02 18:40:08

kvnmcwebn wrote:

Hi Els the articles are all ready part of another section so that won’t work.

That’s not the problem. Using section="shop" in the category_list tag only displays the category’s articles on section shop’s page. It creates URLs like site.com/shop/?c=clothing. If the articles in category clothing are in different sections you just need to use an article_custom tag to display them on the ‘shop’ page.

kvnmcwebn · 2010-06-02 21:10:10

having trouble with this… but if I could get it going like you said there it would be great.

els · 2010-06-02 21:20:42

If you use this:

<txp:category_list section="shop" parent="shop" wraptag="ul" break="li" />

it should create URLs like site.com/shop/?c=category-name. On the page for section shop something like

<txp:if_category>
   <txp:article_custom category='<txp:category />' />
</txp:if_category>

should work…

kvnmcwebn · 2010-06-02 21:30:54

ok is there a reason why the override form wouldn’t work in this example?

<txp:if_section name="services" >
	<txp:if_category>
		<h2><txp:category title="1" /></h2>
		<txp:article allowoverride="1" form="plain_listing"   />
		<txp:else />
		<txp:if_individual_article>
			<txp:article form="plain_listing" allowoverride="1" />
		<txp:else />
			<h3> Select a Category </h3>
		</txp:if_individual_article>
	</txp:if_category>
	<hr />
<txp:output_form form="newlistings" />
</txp:if_section>

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if_category listings - landing page help

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