[Resolved] Switch between category views

Hi all,

I am a new user of FlexiContent as of today.

I've jumped right in and have managed to get things the way required very easily, so well done for an excellent Joomla extension.

One question I have is as follows:

I have 2 categories populated with the same items all as the same 'type'; one category is default to all these items.

I have also created 2 seperate templates, one for each category. They have identical 'Item' layouts but very different 'Category' layouts.

When a user comes to this section they are presented with the items default category layout.

What I'd like to do is provide a link at the top of the category layout allowing the user to view the other category. This other category has the same items but in a different category layout template.

I'm sure this is doable but wasnt quite sure how I should go about it within FlexiContent.

Any pointers would be highly appreciated.

Kind regards,
Kris...

I was kind of thinking how I could have the two categories related and then show 'related categories' on each category layout.

Also, to clarify what I mean by 'different' category layouts; one category view is to list items as text in a list and the other is to list the same items as thumbnail images only. ;o)

Thanks,
Kris...

OK, I have managed to do this quite easily, just by adding a new DIV and adding links to both categories.

One thing I did notice was that the non-default category SEF URL included the category ID! I know I can install SEF404 or equivelant to be able to edit this but is there another way to change a SEF URL from FlexiContent (tried jroute())? I like to use the native SEF support Joomla comes with!

Thanks,
Kris...

hi,kharmer
i think if you want change just layout of category view you must edit the template, instead of makind double of categories.
so in the end you will have one category template with dinamic changing of view.
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Thanks effrit.

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Thanks for the replies.

You were right in that adding the items to a secondary category to achieve this was not ideal.

In the end, I kept these items in the single parent category and simply placed two links to the top of the tamplate.

One linked to the current default view and the other linked to the same view but with an additional parameter on the end.

I then check for this parameter in my view template and show the relevant layout.

Also, when I was defining my 'zones' in this view/template; it dawned on me that I didnt 'have to have them' in my template just because I had defined them. So for example, I could have the zone called image but only use it under certain conditions in my template without errors etc.

Thanks for offering the code effrit, however it wasnt needed in this case. The thumbnail view was always to be default and the list view was just there for user preference.

Regards,
Kris...