Reproducing "blog style" and List style" category views

Hi,

ggppdk wrote: ... OR even create a NEW ONE mycustom.css and load it in you Joomla template
...

a good way to do that is ... create com_flexicontent.css ... and use the following code

in this way, you can created a new css (override) file for each component and this is only loaded when it's needed (component is active).

Explanation of code:
The first line in the code is a PHP if statement which check to see if the CSS file exists for the component which currently being used.
If it exists, the second line loads that (override) CSS file. The naming convention for the CSS files always included com_ so you end up creating files with names such as com_flexicontent.css

Regards

Good idea Rehne,

and this file should be editable in FLEXIcontent Global configuration via a parameter of

file form field TYPE

Thank you guys. Especially for the code to sort the table. I'll test it tomorrow when I get back to work.

As far as the CSS file, thank you for the code to create the override, that will come in handy.

However, so far what I have been doing has been to override the code I found in flexicontent.css in the flexi template css file and it works quite nicely.

Just to make it clear, when I create a new template in flexicontent, each item or category page has its own css . I have been going on the assumption that any rule I place in those css files will override the flexicontent.css file. If it doesn't I simply (as you suggested) make the rule more specific.

So far, I haven't needed to change any css that does not act upon one of the templates. I am sure there may be a need to do that eventually, and in that case I'll use the trick you posted here.

Thank you again.

ggppdk wrote: Good idea Rehne,

and this file should be editable in FLEXIcontent Global configuration via a parameter of

file form field TYPE

Upon reading this post again I realized I am not sure what it is referring to.

Also, any idea about sorting the articles in the table like the default Joomla list style category page does?

conticreative wrote: Also, any idea about sorting the articles in the table like the default Joomla list style category page does?

Hi,
currently it is not yet implemented (maybe in the future)
but you can use jqeury Plugins
i recommend 'Tablesorter'
it is very easy to use
tablesorter.com/docs/ or other plugins/methods ...
www.lampdev.net/programming/php/json-ajax-jquery.html

but you have to adapt the used FC template (table...)
but that is not very complicated

Note:
following the tablesorter.com/docs use best This "noconflict" causes that there are no problems with mootools which are integrated into joomla.


Regards

Thank you. I was actually looking at using jQuery, but I wasn't sure if there was already something built in I could use.

Much obliged.