Re: bigger sites, displaying content

"David Dyess II" <demo-zMKz+/[email protected]> wrote in message
news:3F2F8C8C.4030600-zMKz+/[email protected]
> I was going to ask this question, but happened to run across this first.
>     Is there anyway to manipulate the articles view.php to use different
> templates based on category, this would really help me out a lot.  I
> want to be able to push articles to the article frontpage, but have a
> different template for certain categories such as user commentary.  As
> it is right now i have to create a new pub type to have a different
> template and then as far as I can tell there's not a way to get it on
> the front page without hacking.  Can anyone shed any light on this for us?

The #$catid# (i believe that is the var) is cached, so you could do
something like:

<xar:if condition="$catid eq 4">
    do this
</xar:else />
    do that
</xar:if>

Not sure if that is what you mean though.