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

oops, paste error, the xar:set should say

<xar:set name="catonly">xarRequestGetVar( 'catonly' )</xar:set>

and the condition should probably be

<xar:if condition="!empty($catonly) and ($catonly ne 1)">


jlinowes wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
>>