Include subcategories on category page?

kemie · 2010-08-15 21:20:40

My page structure is something like:

-Category 1
—Article1
—Subcategory1
—-Article 2
—-Article 3

My main navigation points to category 1, but in the article listing on that page, i get only article1. I would like to get all articles for category 1, even if their category is set to a child of category1.
is this at all possible? or do I need to set 2 categories (category1 & Subcategory1) on each article?
oh, the tag I’m using is a simple

<txp:article limit=“10” form=“font” listform=“article_listing”/>

merz1 · 2010-08-16 07:22:22

[Just a short comment (off to work)]

My page structure is something like:

Categories are not meant to define TXP structures.
It’s doable but not recommended.

Pls. check Textpattern_Semantic_Model

Fastest & most flexible solution: Use keywords. Tip: tru_tags.

kemie · 2010-08-16 08:01:30

Hm, then I’m stuck in a position where it’s basically impossible to create a hierrchical structure and navigation. Neither sections nor categories provide a way to do this.
I think I’m gonna try adi_menu, see if the fake section hierarchy works.

Sigh, some days I’m really frustrated with txp’s limitations.

PS- merzi, sorry, don’t mean for the frustration to come out on you, thanks for the reply.

gomedia · 2010-08-17 04:22:49

kemie wrote:

I think I’m gonna try adi_menu, see if the fake section hierarchy works.

I don’t think adi_menu will do it for you either … but I’ve sent you something that might help.

kemie · 2010-08-17 17:13:30

For future reference, I solved it by using chh_article_custom with the attribute children=“y”

the default tag should have this attribute! :)

els · 2010-08-17 22:20:57

Hi Kemie, wouldn’t this TXP Tip do what you want?

gomedia · 2010-08-18 04:02:10

kemie wrote:

For future reference, I solved it by using chh_article_custom with the attribute children=“y”

And for the record. This was a non-plugin suggestion:

<!-- get list of parent & child categories -->
<txp:variable name="category_list"><txp:category_list parent='<txp:category />'><txp:category /></txp:category_list></txp:variable>

<!-- turn it into a comma separated list -->
<txp:php>
	$GLOBALS['variable']['category_list'] = str_replace("<br />", ",", $GLOBALS['variable']['category_list']);
</txp:php>

<!-- list articles for given categories -->
<txp:article_custom category='<txp:variable name="category_list" />'>
	<h2><txp:title /></h2>
</txp:article_custom>

It should list all articles for the current category plus its children.

Gocom · 2010-08-18 05:32:10

gomedia wrote:

<!-- turn it into a comma separated list -->
<txp:php>
	$GLOBALS['variable']['category_list'] = str_replace("<br />", ",", $GLOBALS['variable']['category_list']);
</txp:php>

Category_list has break and wraptag attributes. break="," does the same.

gomedia · 2010-08-18 05:50:32

Gocom wrote:

Category_list has break and wraptag attributes. break="," does the same.

Excellent – I nearly tried that but then I misread the help! Thanks.

monkeyninja · 2010-08-18 07:57:42

kemie wrote:

Sigh, some days I’m really frustrated with txp’s limitations.

All CMSs have their limitations that can usually be overcome by using plugins/modules/bespoke code. If you’re finding the limitations too great for a particular project then TXP is possibly not the right solution. That said, the more powerful and flexible a CMS is then usually the learning curve for doing things is greater making its own limitations even harder to overcome. It comes down to which is more important/relevant for what you’re working on.

kemie · 2010-08-18 09:05:57

Els wrote:

Hi Kemie, wouldn’t this TXP Tip do what you want?

That comes very close to what I want. Ideally, I’d be able to show just a few of the articles in each category, and then pagination, but maybe I can make it work with just a link to the section. Thanks, els.

monkeyninja: my frustration comes from the fact that things that I think should be fairly straightforward to do with txp (for example, have a list of articles from a particular category that are paginated) aren’t and require plugins or code that goes beyond my abilities. If I didn’t have the support of this comunity, that shares code, plugins and knowledge, I’d probably just make do and get it 95% close to what I want. Thankfully, I can get to something like 98 with a bit of effort :)

gomedia · 2010-08-19 04:24:58

And to make the record complete, here’s the new and Gocom-improved snippet:

<txp:variable name="category_list"><txp:category_list parent='<txp:category />' break=","><txp:category /></txp:category_list></txp:variable>

<txp:article_custom category='<txp:variable name="category_list" />'>
	<h2><txp:title /></h2>
</txp:article_custom>

kemie · 2010-08-19 10:04:15

nice and lean, hm, i think i’ll use this in combination with chh_article to have pagination too. thank you so much!

merz1 · 2010-08-19 12:28:57

Sigh, some days I’m really frustrated with txp’s limitations.

Or in other words: Textpattern core has certain limitations on purpose. Overriding those limitations can come with a price (logic, security, performance, maintenance, …).

Lately many threads came up with questions regarding categories as CMS structure device. I am not sure – because I didn’t ask – but maybe some people who used ‘the other limited CMS for blogging’ were used to use categories not in the Textpattern way.

Textpattern is different but understanding the semantics and the limitations to solve a certain problem always helped (me) to find a more effective solution than trying to adopt/bend Textpattern in a way it was not built for as a CMS.

As always just my two cents…

kemie · 2010-08-19 14:50:45

I actually have used txp almost exclusively as my CMS of choice the last few years, so my preconceptions of what it “should” do are based on my perhaps flawed logic, but not on any other CMSs. Not saying it’s the way things should be, perhaps it makes sense for 99% of the users/cases to have it work this way. Actually, this is the first case where the category structure/hierarchy has not worked as I expected it to. Anyway, I dont mean to moan, it’s just one of those weeks where progress is sloooow because of small things that don’t work.

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