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

aargh
<xar:if condition="empty($catonly) or ($catonly ne 1)">
but you get the idea

On Oct 6, 2006, at 1:56 PM, jlinowes wrote:

> 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:eg47p3 
>>> [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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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