How can I change the category description field in category

gkhn
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10 years 9 months ago #44694 by gkhn

How can I change the category description field in category was created by gkhn

Hi there,

I have items in the category view list.
They have descriptions under the item images.
So this description is extracted from the description field.
How can I change it so that it can extract this from another text field that I created before?

Thank you.

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ggppdk
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10 years 9 months ago #44696 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic How can I change the category description field in category

Hello

General answer
- drag and drop your field into a position

- but i have feeling that your question is specific to the category layout of the blog FLEXIcontent template

- so duplicate the blog template
- add your field 'myfldname' to 'renderonly' position
a. if you want to change the image extraction SOURCE and use your custom field then do this (get image from another field 'myfldname'):
So find (TWICE) in category_items.php:

Code:

$src = flexicontent_html::extractimagesrc($items[$i]);

and replace with:

Code:

$tmp_descr = new stdClass();
$tmp_descr->introtext = $items[$i]->fields['myfldname']->display;
$tmp_descr->fulltext = '';
$src = flexicontent_html::extractimagesrc($tmp_descr);
//$src = flexicontent_html::extractimagesrc($items[$i]);

To display your field instead of description,
replace:

Code:

$items[$i]->fields['text']->display

with

Code:

$items[$i]->fields['myfldname']->display

to make any other changes please study the file category_items.php (category_items_html5.php)

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