mmm , so you want to use an item layout to display the items in the category view.
--
The category view uses the category layout, which can be shaped to be whatever you need
-- Using the item layout in the category view is not allowed or possible for a good reason, the data variables are different plus a couple of more things,
it is not about being practical, just, item layout is for item view and category layout is for category view
-- This is not a limitation but rather an expected behavior, the item layout is for the item view and the category layout is for the category view.
Now if you want to ADAPT an item layout to display the items in the category view,
this is possible if you have basic knowledge of php and programming, with a little work:
1. Duplicate
the default template as 'mytemplate1'
2. Open the item.php file of the default (or ?other? template) template which contains the item layout, copy the code
between:
<div id="flexicontent" ...>
...
</div> note this is the last div in the file
3. Open the category_items.php of
the mytemplate1 template and
-- 3.a Replace line
<?php if ($this->params->get('show_title', 1) || count($columns)) : ?>
with:
<?php if (1) : ?>
-- 3.b delete all code:
<table id="flexitable" class="flexitable" ...>
...
</table>
4. At the exact place that you delete the above code, enter this code:
<?php foreach ($items as $item) : ?>
... the code you copied from the item.php file
<?php endforeach; ?>
5. Replace all occurrences of
$this->item with
$item BE CAREFULL NOT TO MATCH $this->items (plural), so use match whole word in your editor, but do use editor to replace otherwise you will miss something, better in interactive mode
6. If you want the
read more link, then copy the code from the category_items.php of the blog template:
<?php if (
( $this->params->get('show_readmore', 1) && strlen(trim($item->fulltext)) >= 1 )
...
</span>
<?php endif; ?>
7. In this
read more code replace (again) all occurrences of
$items[$i] with
$item
8. Test and correct other errors. (you may have to remove something e.g. the comments code)
NOTE: You must have some knowledge of PHP and HTML to do this.
NOTE: I have only run this once and seemed to work, not really tested this ..., so it should work but not guarantees, that you will not need to fix something more.
I have taken the time to write this so that it will be useful to other people to, as this POST has been more than half an hour for me.
Regards
