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#1 2004-11-09 09:55:45

jhaeusler
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From: Berlin
Registered: 2004-09-04
Posts: 22
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I can't see the obvious: Current category list in article view

I think by now I am a little confused by using TXP too much. :)

I want a list of articles in the current category, but not in the category view (I can do that with some plug-ins) but in the article view.

I want to have an article displayed and on the side a list of the other articles in the same category.

I think it was Obeewan who suggested

<code><txp:chh_article_custom category=”<txp:c />” /></code>

in some other post to get the current category, but that doesn’t work since the TXP tag is ended at the first <code>/></code>. Using

<code><txp:chh_article_custom category=”.” /></code> (which, btw, is not well documented in the plug-in but works great to get the current cat)

only works in list view, not in single article view.

Where am I thinking wrong?


http://ww.spreeblick.de, a weblog from Berlin

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#2 2004-11-09 13:15:36

wilshire
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From: Akron, Ohio
Registered: 2004-08-27
Posts: 656
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Re: I can't see the obvious: Current category list in article view

Have you tried doing it like this?
<code>
category=”<?php print $GLOBALS[“c”] ?>”
</code>

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#3 2004-11-09 13:52:40

jhaeusler
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From: Berlin
Registered: 2004-09-04
Posts: 22
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Re: I can't see the obvious: Current category list in article view

I did. It doesn’t work because in article view, the category simply just isn’t set anywhere. I also put

<code><?php echo $GLOBALS[“c”] ?></code>

on the page (not within a TXP tag) just to check, it works great whenever I have a category URL like www.server.com/section/?c=name_of_cat in clean mode, but not in an article view like www.server.com/section/12/name_of_article.

There must be a way to pull the cat of the current article. I just don’t know how! :)


http://ww.spreeblick.de, a weblog from Berlin

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#4 2004-11-09 14:14:12

wilshire
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From: Akron, Ohio
Registered: 2004-08-27
Posts: 656
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Re: I can't see the obvious: Current category list in article view

sorry, i misunderstood. i think your answer is here

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#5 2004-11-09 14:33:29

jhaeusler
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From: Berlin
Registered: 2004-09-04
Posts: 22
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Re: I can't see the obvious: Current category list in article view

Now I only need to understand what the two guys are talking about. :)

Seriously, I find it hard to believe that by now, TXP makes me dig so deep into PHP, which is not my field at all. I thought this is a simple task and I cannot believe that it didn’t cross my way up to now.

Thanks a lot, Wilshire!


http://ww.spreeblick.de, a weblog from Berlin

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#6 2004-12-09 13:39:41

wilshire
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From: Akron, Ohio
Registered: 2004-08-27
Posts: 656
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Re: I can't see the obvious: Current category list in article view

Did you ever come up with a solution for this?

I’m running into the same thing now trying to list articles from the same category as the current one in an article view.

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#7 2004-12-09 16:36:05

wilshire
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From: Akron, Ohio
Registered: 2004-08-27
Posts: 656
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Re: I can't see the obvious: Current category list in article view

To solve this problem I just added the ability to do this to the rss_suparchive with the new rss_suparchive_bycat function.

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