Building Category homepage showing subcategories with leading articles for each

netenvie
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7 years 10 months ago - 7 years 10 months ago #65534 by netenvie

Building Category homepage showing subcategories with leading articles for each was created by netenvie

Hi,
Happy new year !

This is my goal :
I want to show for a category all subcategories and for each subcategory only leading articles (4 to 8 ).
Subcategories should be stacked in lines and leading articles inside each subcat should be in columns (4).
What is the best way to do that ?

I have no problem with html and css and i want to manage this in a custom template to make different display for each subcategory.

So i have already created the custom template and assigned it to my main category.
But now i face the subcategory problem and as there is tons of code it is a bit complex ...
Some code to cycle thru subcats then cycle thru leading articles ?

In tmpl_common/category_subcategories.php i see we can cycle subcats with :

Code:

foreach ($this->categories as $sub) {

But after that how to cycle thru leading articles of the current sub-category ?

I would need something like :

Code:

foreach ($sub->leadings as $item) {
echo $item->title;
echo $item->image;
}

But i guess i need some code to get leading items in each sub and also force some fields rendering (image and files).

Cheers

Last edit: 7 years 10 months ago by ggppdk.

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7 years 10 months ago #65576 by netenvie

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Really need this ... someone ?

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7 years 10 months ago #65660 by netenvie

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7 years 10 months ago - 7 years 10 months ago #65675 by netenvie

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After some search i use code from faq template.
This what i get now :

Code:

// -- Find all categories used by items
$currcatid = $this->category->id;
$cat_items[$currcatid] = array();
$sub_cats[$currcatid] = & $this->category;
foreach ($this->categories as $subindex => $sub) :
	$cat_items[$sub->id] = array();
	$sub_cats[$sub->id] = & $this->categories[$subindex];
endforeach;

// -- Group items into categories
for ($i=0; $i<count($items); $i++) :
	foreach ($items[$i]->cats as $cat) :
		if (isset($cat_items[$cat->id])) :
			$cat_items[$cat->id][] = & $items[$i];
		endif;
	endforeach;
endfor;

foreach ($cat_items as $catid => $items) {
	$sub = & $sub_cats[$catid];
	if ($sub->id == $currcatid) continue;
?>
<!-- BOF sub-categories loop -->
	<h2><a href="index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=category&Itemid=664&cid=<?php echo $sub->id; ?>"><?php echo $sub->title; ?></a></h2>
	<p><?php echo $sub->description; ?></p>
	<div class="uk-grid articles">
	<?php foreach ($items as $i => $item) { ?>
		<?php echo $item->fields['photo']->display; ?>
		<h3><?php echo $item->title; ?></h2>
	<?php } ?>
	</div>
<?php } ?>

Categories display well,
but i have no items showing
and i still don't know how to take leadings only ...

I have some flag and it don't enter in foreach ($items as $i => $item) loop ...

Last edit: 7 years 10 months ago by netenvie.

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7 years 10 months ago #65677 by micker

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did you check you categorie config to display all item in sub categorie ?

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