Section and Sub Section intro text
6 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: July 23, 2010 (RSS)
By svsanchez - July 19, 2010
Dear sirs:
My site has many sections and sub sections and I would like to show only an intro when a user selects a section before showing the list of articles on a subsection. Say I have a main category called "CEILINGS" with 7 different subcategories, each with a few articles. When the user selects "CEILINGS" I don't want to show him the articles but ONLY the intro for that category. When the user selects a subcategory then I will show him the articles on that subcategory.
How can I achieve this?
My site has many sections and sub sections and I would like to show only an intro when a user selects a section before showing the list of articles on a subsection. Say I have a main category called "CEILINGS" with 7 different subcategories, each with a few articles. When the user selects "CEILINGS" I don't want to show him the articles but ONLY the intro for that category. When the user selects a subcategory then I will show him the articles on that subcategory.
How can I achieve this?
Sven Sanchez
www.deguate.com
www.deguate.com
Re: [svsanchez] Section and Sub Section intro text
By Chris - July 19, 2010
Hi svsanchez,
There are many ways to set this up. If you're using a Category Menu it's as simple as checking the "depth" of the selected category and displaying a different page if it's 0.
How are you generating your menu of sections and subsections -- and how are you displaying your pages?
There are many ways to set this up. If you're using a Category Menu it's as simple as checking the "depth" of the selected category and displaying a different page if it's 0.
How are you generating your menu of sections and subsections -- and how are you displaying your pages?
All the best,
Chris
Chris
Re: [chris] Section and Sub Section intro text
By svsanchez - July 22, 2010
Hi Chris, I don't know how to set the depth to 0 to show the intros. I am pasting here my code as I don't understand what you mean by how I'm generating my menus:
<?php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?>
<?php
// load viewer library
$libraryPath = 'cmsAdmin/lib/viewer_functions.php';
$dirsToCheck = array('/home/casahem/public_html/','','../','../../','../../../');
foreach ($dirsToCheck as $dir) { if (@include_once("$dir$libraryPath")) { break; }}
if (!function_exists('getRecords')) { die("Couldn't load viewer library, check filepath in sourcecode."); }
// load records
list($categoryRecords, $selectedCategory) = getCategories(array( 'tableName' => 'categories', 'categoryFormat' => 'twolevel', ));
list($articlesRecords, $articlesMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'articles',
));
?>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="es-gt">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>$record['title']</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#333333" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" link="#F64B00" vlink="#F64B00">
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="1000" id="table1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td width="173">
<p align="center"><img border="0" src="images/index.1.jpg" width="150" height="149"></td>
<td>
<div align="center">
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="728" id="table5" height="90" bgcolor="#F64B00" bordercolor="#000080">
<tr>
<td>
<p align="center">BANNER 728x90</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<p align="right"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000080">Inicio
| Qui?es Somos | Contacto
</font></b></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="1000" id="table3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td width="175" valign="top" style="border-right: 1px dotted #808080">
<p>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">
<?php $selectedCat=""; ?> <?php foreach($categoryRecords as $category):?> <?php if(!$category['_hasParent']):?> <!--<?php echo $category['_listItemStart']; ?>--> <?php if($category['_isSelectedBranch']){echo "<b>"; $selectedCat=$category['num'];} ?> <a href="?category=<?php echo $category['num']?>"><?php echo $category['name']; ?></a> <?php if($category['_isSelectedBranch']){echo "</b>";} ?> <!--<?php echo $category['_listItemEnd']; ?>--> <?php endif ?>
</font> <p> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"> <?php endforeach ?>
</font>
</p>
<p align="center"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#666666">
--------------------------</font></b></p>
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" onSubmit="">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" U-File="_private/form_results.csv" S-Format="TEXT/CSV" S-Label-Fields="TRUE" startspan --><input TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP" VALUE="0"><!--webbot bot="SaveResults" i-checksum="43374" endspan -->
<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#808080">Buscar:</font><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#666666"><br>
</font></b><input type="text" name="T1" size="17">
<input type="submit" value="Ok" name="B1" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #01009E"></p>
</form>
</td>
<td width="175" valign="top">
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">
<?php if($selectedCat): ?> <?php foreach($categoryRecords as $category): ?> <?php if ($selectedCat==$category['parentNum']):?> <!--<?php echo $category['_listItemStart']; ?>--> <a href="?category=<?php echo $category['num']?>"> <?php echo $category['name']; ?> </a> <!--<?php echo $category['_listItemEnd']; ?>--> <?php endif ?> <p> <?php endforeach ?> <?php endif ?>
</font>
</td>
<td width="650" valign="top">
<font face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#666666">
<!-- STEP2: Display Records (Paste this where you want your records to be listed) -->
<?php foreach ($articlesRecords as $record): ?>
</font></font><b>
<font face="Arial" size="4" color="#000080"> <?php echo $record['title'] ?></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#666666"><br/>
<?php echo $record['intro'] ?></font><p>
<font face="Arial" size="2" color="#666666">Category: <?php echo $record['category'] ?><br/>
_link : <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['_link'] ?></a><br/>
</p>
<hr/>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php if (!$articlesRecords): ?>
No records were found!<br/><br/>
<?php endif ?>
<!-- /STEP2: Display Records -->
<font face="Arial" size="2">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="1000" id="table4">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#666666"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
<?php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?>
<?php
// load viewer library
$libraryPath = 'cmsAdmin/lib/viewer_functions.php';
$dirsToCheck = array('/home/casahem/public_html/','','../','../../','../../../');
foreach ($dirsToCheck as $dir) { if (@include_once("$dir$libraryPath")) { break; }}
if (!function_exists('getRecords')) { die("Couldn't load viewer library, check filepath in sourcecode."); }
// load records
list($categoryRecords, $selectedCategory) = getCategories(array( 'tableName' => 'categories', 'categoryFormat' => 'twolevel', ));
list($articlesRecords, $articlesMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'articles',
));
?>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="es-gt">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>$record['title']</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#333333" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" link="#F64B00" vlink="#F64B00">
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="1000" id="table1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td width="173">
<p align="center"><img border="0" src="images/index.1.jpg" width="150" height="149"></td>
<td>
<div align="center">
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="728" id="table5" height="90" bgcolor="#F64B00" bordercolor="#000080">
<tr>
<td>
<p align="center">BANNER 728x90</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<p align="right"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000080">Inicio
| Qui?es Somos | Contacto
</font></b></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="1000" id="table3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td width="175" valign="top" style="border-right: 1px dotted #808080">
<p>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">
<?php $selectedCat=""; ?> <?php foreach($categoryRecords as $category):?> <?php if(!$category['_hasParent']):?> <!--<?php echo $category['_listItemStart']; ?>--> <?php if($category['_isSelectedBranch']){echo "<b>"; $selectedCat=$category['num'];} ?> <a href="?category=<?php echo $category['num']?>"><?php echo $category['name']; ?></a> <?php if($category['_isSelectedBranch']){echo "</b>";} ?> <!--<?php echo $category['_listItemEnd']; ?>--> <?php endif ?>
</font> <p> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"> <?php endforeach ?>
</font>
</p>
<p align="center"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#666666">
--------------------------</font></b></p>
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" onSubmit="">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" U-File="_private/form_results.csv" S-Format="TEXT/CSV" S-Label-Fields="TRUE" startspan --><input TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP" VALUE="0"><!--webbot bot="SaveResults" i-checksum="43374" endspan -->
<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#808080">Buscar:</font><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#666666"><br>
</font></b><input type="text" name="T1" size="17">
<input type="submit" value="Ok" name="B1" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #01009E"></p>
</form>
</td>
<td width="175" valign="top">
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">
<?php if($selectedCat): ?> <?php foreach($categoryRecords as $category): ?> <?php if ($selectedCat==$category['parentNum']):?> <!--<?php echo $category['_listItemStart']; ?>--> <a href="?category=<?php echo $category['num']?>"> <?php echo $category['name']; ?> </a> <!--<?php echo $category['_listItemEnd']; ?>--> <?php endif ?> <p> <?php endforeach ?> <?php endif ?>
</font>
</td>
<td width="650" valign="top">
<font face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#666666">
<!-- STEP2: Display Records (Paste this where you want your records to be listed) -->
<?php foreach ($articlesRecords as $record): ?>
</font></font><b>
<font face="Arial" size="4" color="#000080"> <?php echo $record['title'] ?></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#666666"><br/>
<?php echo $record['intro'] ?></font><p>
<font face="Arial" size="2" color="#666666">Category: <?php echo $record['category'] ?><br/>
_link : <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['_link'] ?></a><br/>
</p>
<hr/>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php if (!$articlesRecords): ?>
No records were found!<br/><br/>
<?php endif ?>
<!-- /STEP2: Display Records -->
<font face="Arial" size="2">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="1000" id="table4">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#666666"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Sven Sanchez
www.deguate.com
www.deguate.com
Re: [svsanchez] Section and Sub Section intro text
By Chris - July 22, 2010
Hi svsanchez,
This may take some experimentation, but I'd start with this...
Put this code around your STEP 2 code: (new code in red)
Does that do what you want?
This may take some experimentation, but I'd start with this...
Put this code around your STEP 2 code: (new code in red)
<?php if ($selectedCategory['depth'] == 0): ?>
<?php echo $selectedCategory['content'] ?>
<?php else ?>
<!-- STEP2: Display Records (Paste this where you want your records to be listed) -->
<?php foreach ($articlesRecords as $record): ?>
</font></font><b>
<font face="Arial" size="4" color="#000080"> <?php echo $record['title'] ?></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#666666"><br/>
<?php echo $record['intro'] ?></font><p>
<font face="Arial" size="2" color="#666666">Category: <?php echo $record['category'] ?><br/>
_link : <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['_link'] ?></a><br/>
</p>
<hr/>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php if (!$articlesRecords): ?>
No records were found!<br/><br/>
<?php endif ?>
<!-- /STEP2: Display Records -->
<?php endif ?>Does that do what you want?
All the best,
Chris
Chris
Re: [chris] Section and Sub Section intro text
By svsanchez - July 22, 2010
Hi Chris, it didn't work, I am now getting this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';', expecting ':' in /home/casahem/public_html/articulos.php on line 121
Here's what I have:
<?php if ($selectedCategory['depth'] == 0): ?>
<?php echo $selectedCategory['content'] ?>
<?php else ?>
<!-- STEP2: Display Records (Paste this where you want your records to be listed) -->
<?php foreach ($articlesRecords as $record): ?>
</font></font><b>
<font face="Arial" size="4" color="#000080"> <?php echo $record['title'] ?></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#666666"><br/>
<?php echo $record['intro'] ?></font><p>
<font face="Arial" size="2" color="#666666">Category: <?php echo $record['category'] ?><br/>
_link : <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['_link'] ?></a><br/>
</p>
<hr/>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php if (!$articlesRecords): ?>
No records were found!<br/><br/>
<?php endif ?>
<!-- /STEP2: Display Records -->
<?php endif ?>
What am I doing wrong?
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';', expecting ':' in /home/casahem/public_html/articulos.php on line 121
Here's what I have:
<?php if ($selectedCategory['depth'] == 0): ?>
<?php echo $selectedCategory['content'] ?>
<?php else ?>
<!-- STEP2: Display Records (Paste this where you want your records to be listed) -->
<?php foreach ($articlesRecords as $record): ?>
</font></font><b>
<font face="Arial" size="4" color="#000080"> <?php echo $record['title'] ?></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#666666"><br/>
<?php echo $record['intro'] ?></font><p>
<font face="Arial" size="2" color="#666666">Category: <?php echo $record['category'] ?><br/>
_link : <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['_link'] ?></a><br/>
</p>
<hr/>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php if (!$articlesRecords): ?>
No records were found!<br/><br/>
<?php endif ?>
<!-- /STEP2: Display Records -->
<?php endif ?>
What am I doing wrong?
Sven Sanchez
www.deguate.com
www.deguate.com
Re: [svsanchez] Section and Sub Section intro text
By Donna - July 23, 2010
Hi there :)
Can you let me know specifically what's on line 121 (and a couple of lines around it)?
Can you let me know specifically what's on line 121 (and a couple of lines around it)?
Donna
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