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Aug 2, 2003, 6:21 PM
Payooo
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Same content for specified category and all subcategories
Hi,

I would like to display the same content for specified category and ALL its subcategories (unlimited deep).

But, as you already guessed, I don't have a clue how to do it Wink.

Actually I know, with 'Category Template', but this is too complicated, confusing and time consuming.



What I would like to do:



<%if category_id eq '2' OR ITS SUBCATEGORY ???%>

Show something

<%elsif category_id eq '10' OR ITS SUBCATEGORY ???%>

Show something different

<%elsif category_id eq '32' OR ITS SUBCATEGORY ???%>

Show something different too

etc...

<%endif%>



Any help is welcome!

Thanks in advance!
May 20, 2009, 7:10 AM
hegu
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May 20, 2009, 7:10 AM
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I am trying to do eactly above.

Any global to pull the all subcateories for a categoty?

thanks.
May 20, 2009, 7:16 AM
Andy
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May 20, 2009, 7:16 AM
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Use istart. For example:

Code:
<%if Full_Name istart = "Test 1"%>
bla bla
<%elseif Full_Name istart = "Test 2"%>
bla bla
<%elseif Full_Name istart = "Test 3"%>
bla bla
<%elseif Full_Name istart = "Test 4"%>
bla bla
<%endif%>

"istart" basically makes it check if the value STARTS with the value you enter. So for the first one - it would do:

Test 1/
Test 1/Something
Test 1/Something/Whatever
...etc

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May 20, 2009, 7:21 AM
hegu
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Thanks Andy.

I will try that.
May 21, 2009, 3:31 PM
hegu
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May 21, 2009, 3:31 PM
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Working on Category pages. But not on Detailed pages. Same code I pasted there. Why?

thanks.
May 22, 2009, 12:50 AM
Andy
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May 22, 2009, 12:50 AM
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It wouldn't work on detailed pages. For it to work on detailed page, you would need *another* global *(i.e still have the current global, but also add this global)

get_cat_name_for_detailed
Code:
sub {
my $catid = $DB->table('CatLinks')->select( ['CategoryID'], { LinkID => $_[0] } )->fetchrow;
my $name = $DB->table('Category')->select( ['Full_Name'], { ID => $catid } )->fetchrow;
return { Full_Name => $name } ;
}

..then call to:

Code:
<%get_cat_name_for_detailed($ID)%>

...then you will be able to use the FulL_Name tag in detailed pages.

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Jun 6, 2009, 1:56 PM
hegu
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Jun 6, 2009, 1:56 PM
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I added a global: get_cat_name_for_detailed
with your code above.

In detailed page I keep it like this:

<%get_cat_name_for_detailed($ID)%>
<%if Full_Name istart = "vategory one"%>
content one
<%elseif Full_Name istart = "Category two"%>
content two
<%elseif Full_Name istart = "Category two"%>
content three
<%endif%>

Not working plus footer dissappearing in detailed pages.
Jun 7, 2009, 12:02 AM
Andy
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Jun 7, 2009, 12:02 AM
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When you say "not working", what do you mean?

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Jun 7, 2009, 5:59 AM
hegu
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Jun 7, 2009, 5:59 AM
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The content is not displaying as it supposed to based on the 'isstart'. PLUS no html after this code is not displaying in html source.(footer is dissappearing)
Jun 7, 2009, 9:32 AM
Andy
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Jun 7, 2009, 9:32 AM
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So what does the whole template look like? Just paste ALL the code here - otherwise, not a lot I can suggest.

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Jun 27, 2009, 8:42 PM
hegu
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Jun 27, 2009, 8:42 PM
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I just PMed the code.

thanks!