More Category Menu Issues...

Hi,

Although it is possible to create only one page and have it display different "pages", the page can very quickly become very large and hard to deal with if you ever have to make changes. The best approach is to have a different list page for each section (about,news,etc). As for keeping the same menu, you can put all of your menu code in an "include" file and then just attach this file to each page where you want the menu to display. This way if you ever have to make changes to the menu, you only have to make it in one place.

As for the problems you're experiencing with your menu. The first issue I'm seeing is when you click on a parent category such as About us, it actually reloads the page with a new category number in the url string. It seems like parent categories should not actually be live links, but only clickable so they can display their children categories under them.

Hope this helps point you in the right direction. Please let me know if you have any other questions. If you're still running into difficulty, please attach the .php file you're working with and I can take a look.

Thanks.

Hi

So, are you looking that only categories that are a subcategory of the number in the url string be displayed along the left, and then only article records who's category is equal to one of the sub categories on the left, be displayed under that category?

Is that right?

If so, you can try this code (Note, this is untested, but should point you in the right direction):

<?php list($articlesRecords, $articlesMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'articles',
));
?>

<?php foreach ($categoriesRecords as $categoryRecord): ?>
<div class="button-title"> <img src="/bloxtest/images/arrow-down.jpg" />

<?php if($category['parentNum']==@$_REQUEST['category']):?>
<?php if ($categoryRecord['_isSelected']): ?><b><?php endif ?>
<a href="#"><?php echo $categoryRecord['name'] ?></a>
<?php if ($categoryRecord['_isSelected']): ?></b><?php endif ?>

</div>
<div class="sub-links">
<div>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($articlesRecords as $record): ?>

<?php if($record['category']==$categoryRecord['num']):?>
<li> <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['title'] ?></a></li>
<?php endif ?>

<?php endforeach ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<?php endif ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Where it says $record['category'], you may have to replace 'category' with the name of the category field in your articles table.

Hope this helps.