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Bug in category_list when using parent, children and break attributes?
On my home page, I want to show the latest 5 articles from 3 “featured categories”.
It is important to include articles from subcategories as well, because in my site structure, I only assign articles to subcategories. The top-level categories have zero articles.
- Fruits (0 articles)
-- Apples (5 articles)
-- Bananas (6 articles)
- Vegetables (0 articles)
-- Carrots (7 articles)
-- Onions (8 articles)
- Birds (0 articles)
-- Magpies (3 articles)
-- Finches (5 articles)My strategy is:
1. Use category_list and the category attribute to produce a list of my 3 categories
2. Build a comma-separated list of child categories using category_list
3. Use article_custom to display the list of articles
This is fiddly due to the nested tags, but I think it should be possible.
On my page I have:
<txp:category_list categories="fruits,vegetables,birds" form="mycustomform" />The contents of mycustomform are:
<txp:article_custom category='<txp:category_list parent=''<txp:category />'' children="3" break="," />' wraptag="ul" break="li" limit="5" frontpage="1" />This didn’t work, so I tried the inner tag by itself, for one of the categories, to see how it was being parsed:
<txp:category_list parent='<txp:category />' children="3" break=","><txp:category /></txp:category_list>I had expected this to return fruits,apples,bananas but it actually returned fruitsapples,bananas
Notice the comma is missing between the parent item and the first child. I think this is a bug.
Can anybody reproduce this issue please? Is there an easier way to achieve my goal? Have I found a bug?
Many thanks
Last edited by sambooth74 (2022-06-09 16:16:47)
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Re: Bug in category_list when using parent, children and break attributes?
After spending an hour on this, and then writing up the issue, I think I solved my own problem 5 minutes later. You aren’t supposed to use the parent and children attributes of category_list at the same time….. When I removed the children attribute, my issue was resolved.
I still feel like my solution is quite complex, so if anyone has a better idea, please let me know!
Many thanks
Last edited by sambooth74 (2022-06-09 16:33:16)
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Re: Bug in category_list when using parent, children and break attributes?
If I’ve understood your structure properly, you should be able to simplify it to this:
<txp:variable name="featured_cats" trim>
<txp:category_list parent="fruits,vegetables,birds" exclude="fruits,vegetables,birds" break=","><txp:category /></txp:category_list>
</txp:variable>
<txp:article_custom category='<txp:variable name="featured_cats" />' limit="5" sort="Posted desc" wraptag="ul" break="li">
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink><txp:category1 wraptag=" (<+>)" />
</txp:article_custom>The first part outputs a comma-separated list of all the parents and children of the specified parent categories excluding the parents and saves that in a variable.
The second part then lists the 5 most recent articles that appear in any of the previously determined sub-categories.
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Re: Bug in category_list when using parent, children and break attributes?
Hmm, on second thoughts maybe you did mean the 5 most recent articles from each of your 3 parent categories, i.e. 3 × 5 articles.
Then it would be almost like you have it excerpt that you can use the exclude attribute here too:
<txp:category_list categories="fruits,vegetables,birds" break="">
<!-- category heading -->
<txp:category title wraptag="h3" />
<!-- five most recent articles in the respective sub-categories -->
<txp:article_custom category='<txp:category_list parent=''<txp:category />'' exclude=''<txp:category />'' break=","><txp:category /></txp:category_list>' limit="5" sort="Posted desc" wraptag="ul" break="li">
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
</txp:article_custom>
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Re: Bug in category_list when using parent, children and break attributes?
One further note: with both of the above you will in fact get the same output without the exclude attribute because as you write …
The top-level categories have zero articles.
… which means: without exclude attribute, the article_custom tag will also look for articles in the parent categories but as there aren’t any articles assigned to them, it will only return articles from the child categories.
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Re: Bug in category_list when using parent, children and break attributes?
It’s good to hear from a knowledgeable person that my solution is sensible, many thanks!
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