Content under category table

LaughingTear
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14 years 1 week ago #6430 by LaughingTear

Content under category table was created by LaughingTear

Hi once again!

I'm using the default category template to display a table with the articles of a category. Well, that works fine. But I'd like to place a text right UNDER this table. I'm not into PHP, so it would be great if there's a simple solution for this.

I already tried the "Placehere" module as workaround, but that would lead to displaying the text under each article too.

Thanks for your help!

Uli

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Rehne
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14 years 2 days ago #6654 by Rehne

Replied by Rehne on topic Content under category table

What type of text should it be?

One possibility would be
create a new position (group) in the template
and after that create an new field (filedtype = text area) also
so you can, when editing a category,
write a text for each category that appears under the table

I do not know whether you mean it.

To implement this you must do the following changes:

1. add a new group (e.g. under_tabe) in the templates\default\category.xml

Code:

<fieldgroups>
  <group>table</group>
  <group>under_table</group>
</fieldgroups>

2. in the templates\default\category.php
after

Code:

<!-- BOF item list display -->
 <?php echo $this->loadTemplate('items'); ?>
<!-- BOF item list display -->

add the following code

Code:

<?php if ((isset($this->item->positions['under_table'])) : ?>
<div class="under_item_table">
<!-- BOF under_item_table block -->
<?php foreach ($this->item->positions['under_table'] as $field) : ?>
<div class="element <?php echo $field->name; ?>">
 <?php echo $field->display; ?>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<?php endif; ?>
<!-- EOF under_item_table block -->

the code for the css file and the rest of the statement I skip

maybe that is right for you

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Rehne
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14 years 2 days ago #6670 by Rehne

Replied by Rehne on topic Content under category table

excuse me
quite as easy as I wrote it is not yet

Code:

2. in the templates\default\category.php
after

Code: Select all
    <!-- BOF item list display -->
    <?php echo $this->loadTemplate('items'); ?>
    <!-- BOF item list display -->


add the following code

there has to be the following code but not in the templates\default\category.php but in templates\default\category-items.php after

Code:

<?php else : ?>
<div class="noitems"><?php echo JText::_( 'FLEXI_NO_ITEMS_CAT' ); ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

the new code

Code:

<?php
if ($this->items) :
$elements = array();
if (isset($item->positions['under_table'])) : 
?>
<div class="under_item_table">
<?php
foreach ($item->positions['under_table'] as $element_pos) :
if (!in_array($element_pos->name, $elements)) :
$elements[$element_pos->name] = $item->fields[$element_pos->name]->label;	?>					
<div class="element">
<div class="label field_<?php echo $item->fields[$element_pos->name]->label; ?>">
<?php echo $item->fields[$element_pos->name]->label; ?>
</div>
<div class="value field_<?php echo $item->fields[$element_pos->name]->label; ?>"><?php echo $item->fields[$element_pos->name]->display; ?></div>
</div>
				<?php				
endif;
 endforeach;
?>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

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