[solved]turning "posted in [category]" into a link

[UndercoverAndrey]

When editing templates, you use the {cat_name} tag to show the category name... so I'm guessing you have to go deeper into other files to turn it into a link (when clicked on goes to news in that category)

no clue where to even start to look

[joshua.s.belanger]

(moved into Help & Support)
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The easiest way to do this is to make a page per category and name the page the same name as your category and put them in your website root NOT the FN folder. Example:

Categories:
1. General
2. News

Page:
1. youurl.com/general.php
2. yoururl.com/news.php

On each page just include on the category you want to include... For my examples I would have:

General.php:

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<?php

$fn_category = array (1);
include 'News/news.php';

?>

News.php:

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[code]<?php

$fn_category = array (2);
include 'News/news.php';

?>[/code]

To make the cat_name linked open functions.php

Inside find:

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$cat_name = $category['name'];

and replace with:

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$cat_name = '<a href="'. $category['name'] .'.php">'. $category['name'] .'</a>';

Now your cat name will link to each page...

Let me know if that works for you.

[UndercoverAndrey]

in the last part of the code, would it be possible to have the link not be the same name as the category, if that makes sense

some of my categories have commas and spaces in them, I'd like to avoid having file names formatted like that

[Blackshadow]

In that case the easiest way would be to create a specialised file which expects the category ID in the URL (like show-category.php?category=2).

In your website's home directory, create a file called show_category.php. You can name this file anything you want, but in these instructions I'll refer to it as show_category.php. In this file, add this:

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<?php

$fn_category = isset ($_GET['category']) ? (int)$_GET['category'] : 0;
include 'news/news.php';

?>

Now any time you go to show_category.php?category=<category id>, where <category_id> is the category id, it will display only the news posts for that category.

In functions.php, find:

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$cat_name = $category['name'];

And replace with:

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$cat_name = '<a href="show_category.php?category='. $category['category_id'] .'">'. $category['name'] .'</a>';

Each category name should be linked to the show_category.php file now

[UndercoverAndrey]

awesome, this is getting exactly where i want =]

one more thing

the category linking is working.. now I just need to have it open within my page and not on a separate one where you can't see the layout (if that makes sense)

so right now, it takes me to a page such as this:

http://www.clearnonsense.com/show_categ ... category=6

what I want it to do is open like this:

http://www.clearnonsense.com/index.php?id=tvfilm

(the pages in the second method are linked to from a category navigation on the website)


sorry if this is a pain in the ass

[UndercoverAndrey]

bumping this after a long time, because i still cant figure out the last question

[Blackshadow]

Unfortunately there's not really any easy way to do what you're asking. The reason is how do you associate the id 'tvshows' with the category id 6? The FN code needs to know about this association, but there's no way to tell FN about it. Hopefully FN4 will make it easier to do something along these lines, but it will be a long wait.

[UndercoverAndrey]

/sigh


alright, thank you for your help though

[dayara]

(moved into Help & Support)
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The easiest way to do this is to make a page per category and name the page the same name as your category and put them in your website root NOT the FN folder. Example:

Categories:
1. General
2. News

Page:
1. youurl.com/general.php
2. yoururl.com/news.php

On each page just include on the category you want to include... For my examples I would have:

General.php:

Code: Select all

<?php

$fn_category = array (1);
include 'News/news.php';

?>

News.php:

Code: Select all

[code]<?php

$fn_category = array (2);
include 'News/news.php';

?>[/code]

To make the cat_name linked open functions.php

Inside find:

Code: Select all

$cat_name = $category['name'];

and replace with:

Code: Select all

$cat_name = '<a href="'. $category['name'] .'.php">'. $category['name'] .'</a>';

Now your cat name will link to each page...

Let me know if that works for you.

Thanks a lot, i was looking for this.
I just needed one small tweek if that was possible.
Instead of linking the categories to {cat_name} is it possible to link it to {cat_icon}??