Re: Display a Category as the Content on the Home Page

Hi Wayne,

There are a number of different ways to do this.

You can put the cat nav tag in any template, including your homepage 
one, for example,

     <xar:categories-navigation layout="trails" showchildren="1" 
module="articles" itemtype="15" catid="46" showcatcount="0" showempty="1" />

where 15 should be replaced with the actual pubtype id of "products", 
and 46 is the root category.


Another idea is to re-use the template that works already, and pass the 
page a parameter telling it to omit certain content.

For example, if you used the link
http://mysite.com/index.php/products/c46/?catonly=1

Then in the template you could add

<xar:set name="catonly">$value = xarRequestGetVar( 'catonly' )</xar:set>
     <xar:categories-navigation layout="trails" showchildren="1" 
module="articles" itemtype="$ptid" catid="$catid" 
showcatcount="$showcatcount" showempty="1" />

... some content you show in all cases ...

<xar:if condition="$catonly ne 1">
	... all other content...
</xar:if>


Then in your home page you can add

#xarModFunc('articles','user','view',array('ptid'=>15, 'cid'=>'46', 
'catonly'=>'1'))#


hope this helps,
linoj


wwalkerbout wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a follow-up on my message from two days ago, as I am still stumped 
> on this issue. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this 
> situation?  My understanding of the Xaraya Blocklayout or API calls is a 
> matter of confusion, to say the least, so I am going around in circles here. 
> This is the last thing I need to get working before I can show my friend 
> their "draft" site.
> 
> In clarification, I have formated a page that displays all of the items in a 
> Category with associated thumbnal images. If I select that category, 
> everything displays just fine. The work in pulling together my page of 
> Category items and images (which I added in the Category Tree),  and in 
> formating them, I did through my 
> /themes/devtest/\modules/categories/user-navigation-trails.xt template file.
> 
> The URL in my dev environment is:
> 
> http://local.devtest/index.php/products/c46/
> 
> Now, what I need to do is to display that exact list of categori items and 
> images in my Frontpage Article pubtype, with other content above and below. 
> I have been working on that in my Frontpage Articles template and the 
> remainder of the Frontpage is displaying fine. It is the category item list 
> and images that I can't get to display.
> 
> In my ignorance, I have been playing with the following, but without 
> success:
> 
> 1.    Using the Window Module to hold the content (seemed to need a link to 
> activate).
> 2.    <xar:module... call. I know how to use that to call an Article, but I 
> gather I should be calling a Category here.
> 3.    xarModAPIFunc(... call. Totally out of my league here. I didn't know 
> what I was doing.
> 4.    <xar:module id=... call. Just clutching at straws here.
> 
> So I am probably trying all the wrong things here.
> 
> Therefore, I would truely appreciate any feedback on how I might get this 
> Category list to display where I need it, on my Home Page.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Wayne
> 
> "wwalkerbout" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
> news:[email protected]...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a category displaying a set of Category Images (2 rows of 4 
>> images), which i would like to be the main content on the Home Page (with 
>> additional content above and below it).
>>
>> Does anyone know the best way to have a Category displayed as content on 
>> the Home Page?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Wayne
>>
> 
>