Build all links based on main category

Hi there,

I have been struggling with this for a long time now.
Maybe I have missed something but I fail to understand how I can force all links to the main category instead of the category where they are opened.

The default behaviour is - as I can see it now - all article links displayed in the home category are opened following $item->categoryslug which for some strange reason is 'home' and not the main category as i would consider logical.
I would say an article with main category 'sport' should open in the sport category menu page.

I can see now this issue is solved regarding the cannonical link... but I have not found yet how to get this link through FlexicontentHelperRoute::getItemRoute.

Is there a solution for this... without having to hack myself into the code?

Cheers... can't wait for the pro version and keep up the excellent work.

Wiebe

This would be my solution now:

foreach ($item->cats as $icat) {
if ($icat->title==$item->maincat_title) {
$catslug = $icat->slug;
}
}
$link_url = $custom_link ? $custom_link : JRoute::_(FlexicontentHelperRoute::getItemRoute($item->slug, $catslug, 0, $item));

Hello

are your items assigned to a secondary category 'HomePage' or similar purpose category ?

then if 'home' is a menu item alias is pointing to the category 'HomePage'

then 'home' menu item alias will be preferred

Maybe this will work
Go to plugins manager and filter by system plugin
Then open advanced route plugin, inside select to make category 'HomePage' "Unrouteable"
- the above means that no homepage will not appear inside URLs (if possible)

Great... this really works!

Thank you very much!

Having said that... this solution does not work for situations where you have mixed links (from category and subcategories) in your category view.
Maybe - for future versions - while there are already fields like $item->maincat_title and $item->maincat_alias, the field $item->maincat_slug should be considered too.
That would make things a lot easier.