Turn on/off view Items in Category View

Sometimes - clients just want to show the category description - and not show the items at all. My way of doing this is.

1. Open up your template folder
2. In category.xml add:

3. In category.php, change:

To:

In RC7+ you can use the Joomla way , use 0 items per page in category parameters

or

create an new Joomla menu item , pointing to a category and enable override of category parameters and set 0 items per page

I usually create an item and point to it. What is the difference since the result is the same?

Joomla behavior for zero "limit" is to show only category information.

which reminds me to add parameters to category view for subcategory image and subcategory descriptions (existing code is finished and ready to use them)

I see. Thanks for the explanation.

Also , file:

views/category/view.html.php has FINISHED/TESTED code to create customized subcategory images and descriptions (like in directory view)


I ll copy (a) parameters and (b) layout from directory view (or from FAQ template) to enable this to all templates