Tag Cloud - need help

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:42:27 -0700

Awesome, congratulations and thank you for posting the code.

David

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Tag Cloud - need help

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:05:56 -0700

Thank you. That'll be great. Great work.

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Tag Cloud - need help

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:17:26 -0700

This looks great. I'd love to know how to create a tag cloud using CMSB.

Could you please post in one clear "how to" post all the steps and code to implement the tag cloud in CMSB.

Thanks very much,

David

Tag Cloud - need help

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:56:52 -0700

Hi dwellingproductions,

Checked out your page and the design looks great.

I want to do a tag cloud like that too.

Where did you get the software for it? Do you have a link to it you can share?

Thanks,

David

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Different headlines for same article appearing on list pages depending on Category selected by public end user????

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:45:24 -0700

I’m stumped on this. I’m wondering if it is even possible, and if it is, just how to do it.

I want to make the headlines that appear for the articles, both in the list pages and on the article page itself, change depending on the CMSB Category.

Here’s what I mean specifically:

The articles are summaries of baseball games. I’ve set things up in CMSB so that the articles get “tagged” by assigning them to one or more of several CMSB Categories I’ve set up in CMSB for what type of game it was. (I use a multi-select list in CMSB Admin for this.) For example the CMSB Categories and Sub-Categories for game types I’ve set up in CMSB Admin are:

-Game Summaries:
—Pitching Duels
—Slug Fests
—Extra Innings
[note: my system actually has dozens of these subcategories, so there’s lots of them]

So, if a game was only a Pitching Duel, the article for it gets assigned to that CMSB Category. When a public end user of the site selects that Category from the menu on the public page, the article for this game appears in the article list (along with all the other articles also tagged with this CMSB Category).

And, if a game was both a Pitching Duel and an Extra Innings game also, the article for it gets assigned to both of those CMSB Categories. This way, that article appears on the list page if either CMSB Category — Pitching Duel or Extra Innings — is selected by the public end user viewing the site.

I’ve got the foregoing set up and running fine.

BUT here’s the problem I’m trying to solve now:

Using the last example above, i.e., an article that’s assigned to two or more CMSB Categories (such as one that’s assigned to both, e.g., the Pitching Duel and the Extra Innings CMSB Categories), will appear on on both these list pages with the same headline. That’s a problem. Here’s an example why.

If an article about a game was both a Pitching Duel and also an Extra Innings type game, the single headline for that article I write when creating the article in CMSB Admin (there is a filed named ‘headline’) might just be about only one of these aspects — e.g., “Giants Win In Extra Innings In The 15th Inning” OR “Jones Pitches Brilliant Game, Leaves 7th Inning”.

So, if I use “Jones Pitches Brilliant Game, Leaves 7th Inning” as the headline for the article, that headline will appear on the list pages for both categories. This is fine when it appears on the list page for the “Pitching Duel” Category. But this is not fine when it appears on the list page for the “Extra Innings” Category. It looks weird. It doesn’t relate. It would of course be better and make more sense to the public site’s end user if the headline for this article when it appears on the list page for the “Extra Innings” Category was a different headline, such as “Giants Win In Extra Innings In The 15th Inning”.

I’ve wracked my brain on this. I was thinking about setting up for the article in CMSB several different headline fields, e.g., headline1, headline2, headline3, etc., and using these to write several different headlines for the article. But I cannot think of how to tie these headlines to what gets outputted when a Category is selected by the end user of the public site.

In very broad conceptual terms, I guess that this needs something that correlates the headline1 etc. to what Category gets selected. This can’t be hard coded and must work dynamically depending on the Category.

I was further thinking in trying to suss this out that I’d also probably need to indicate which Category the headline1 relates to and goes with, and maybe could somehow do this in the headline1 field entry itself when I write the headline, i.e., some code parenthetical (that doesn’t appear to the public user) I put in the headline1 field itself to say what Category the headline goes with, maybe something like:

headline1 field:
Jones Pitches Brilliant Game, Leaves 7th Inning
AND
headline2 field:
Giants Win In Extra Innings In The 15th Inning

But even if this is possible (to use php code in the field itself) and the right approach for saying what Category the particular headline goes with, I still can’t see what code I’d need in the foreach loop on the list page to tell it that if the selected category is Category num 9, then use the headline1, and likewise if the Category is num 12, then to use in that case the headline2 field.

One thing I thought about and rejected is creating multiple copies of the article, each copy with its own headline and assigned single Category. That would wreck havoc and not be manageable for many reasons, including the fact that there’s going to be hundreds of articles and this would just confuse thing terribly to have multiple copies of the same article.

Another thing I thought about and rejected is to write the single headline for the article that covers all these game aspects of the game, but that would result in headlines I don’t really want and that’d be too long, because a game might have 5 aspects and fall into 5 Categories.

So, any ideas on how to have different headlines for the same article appear on list pages depending on the Category shown by the list page?

Thanks,
David

How to generate nav menu for only particular part of a Category menu tree branch?

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:51:42 -0700

Hi,

I need to know how to have a vertical navigation menu on the public website show only a particular portion of a category menu tree from a certain point on one branch through to the ending last child menu item.

Let's say my categories in CMSB are set up with this hierarchy:

-Food
-Drinks
--Sodas
---Coke
---Pepsi
-Booze
--Mixed Drinks
---Screwdriver
---White Russian

I want to be able to have a vertical navigation menu appear on the public website that would show a particular branch starting from a particular point through to the end. For example, a menu that shows just the Mixed Drinks menu items, i.e. --

--Mixed Drinks
---Screwdriver
---White Russian

-- OR a menu that shows just the Drinks menu items, i.e. --

-Drinks
--Sodas
---Coke
---Pepsi

After studying the fields generated by CMSB for Categories, I think I figured out the logic needed to do this, but don't know exactly how to code it in PHP.

To do what I want to do, it seems that the lineage field is the key.

Looking at the entries in the lineage field, I see that all category items in the same branch, starting from a particular point in the branch, include the same category num in the lineage field and that is the category num for the starting point in the branch I want to select.

So I need to have the code run a foreach loop and generate the vertical navigation menu only for category items whose lineage field contains and includes (not equals) a given category num, i.e., :2:, so it would pick up all category items whose lineage field includes that category num for the category where I want the menu to start being output from

In English (as opposed to PHP), it seems that the logic here would be:

• Run foreach loop, but only on Category records whose lineage field includes, e.g., :2: and echo for these categories the link and label.

But I do not know the exact specific code in PHP language needed to do this.

I use the following PHP code to generate the the vertical navigation for all category items on the public web pages--

How do I modify this to do what I want to do here and show a menu only for a selected branch starting at a given point I select in the branch? What is the specific PHP code I should use?

I was thinking, in logic terms, something like this, but need to know the exact PHP code for it. Shown below is the code above, modified to show the logic I think is needed, using English (not PHP) in Capital letters:

 

        • IF A RECORD'S LINEAGE FIELD CONTAINS AND INCLUDES :2:, THEN DO THIS ONLY FOR EACH ONE THAT DOES HAVE :2: IN ITS LINEAGE FIELD:
		
      
 
   	       
      	  
       

        • END THE IF

I'm also wondering if I'd need to wrap the whole thing inside of some conditional if statement, maybe something like:

• IF A RECORD'S LINEAGE FIELD CONTAINS AND INCLUDES :2:, THEN DO THIS ONLY FOR EACH ONE THAT DOES HAVE :2: IN ITS LINEAGE FIELD:


 

        • IF A RECORD'S LINEAGE FIELD CONTAINS AND INCLUDES :2:, THEN DO THIS ONLY FOR EACH ONE THAT DOES HAVE :2: IN ITS LINEAGE FIELD:
		
      
 
   	       
      	  
       

        • END THE IF 




• END THE IF

Another permutation is that perhaps if it is wrapped inside an outer if statement, then I wouldn't need the inner if statement??? I have no idea. I'm not that fluent in PHP, but am in English.

So I thought I'd write out here in English what I've figured out the logic to be (i.e., run the foreach and listitemstart/end routine that generates the vert. nav menu but only on category records whose lineage field contains the category num I pick, so it generates a menu starting with that category and going through to all of the end children in that branch and its sub-branches), and ask if you think that's the correct logic to do what I want, and if so, what is the PHP code I should use.

So,

(A) do you think that using the lineage field like this to identify the category items I want in the menu that is output is the correct way to go?

and,

(B) If so, what's the exact PHP code I'd need to do what I'm trying to do. I want to do this in the body, not in the initial call in the head.

Thanks very much,
David

Install question

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:17:29 -0700

Does the /cmsAdmin/ folder have to be in the first level of the website folder, such that it's path must be /cmsAdmin/ ?

Or can I put it in a folder I create, so it is a subfolder and not in the first level, i.e., /admin/cmsAdmin/

In other words, I want to create a folder called "admin" and put the cmsAdmin folder inside of that.

Is that ok?

Re: [Jason] Selected item in nav using _isSelectedBranch

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:36:40 -0800

Hi Jason,
I have a question about what you wrote --

Hi Jan,

_isSelectedBranch will only ever be set if $selectedCategory has a value. This will either be set if there is a record number at the end of the URL or if you set 'selectedCategoryNum' in your getCategories.

Hope this helps

Does _isSelectedBranch work if you use
'selectedCategoryNum' => @$_REQUEST['category'],
instead of the default behavior of looking at the number at the end of the URL or setting a static 'selectedCategoryNum'
?

What you wrote seems to say that _isSelectedBranch will only ever be set if $selectedCategory has a value, and the $selectedCategory has a value ONLY if (a) there is a record number at the end of the URL or (b) if you set 'selectedCategoryNum' in your getCategories. But what about using instead of these two ways, using 'selectedCategoryNum' => @$_REQUEST['category'],
?

Re: [rez] If any item's checkbox is true

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:07:07 -0700

Thanks, Jason and Rez, that was helpful, don't know right now if I fully get it, but I think when I study this more I should. Rez, that was helpful and helped me better understand things here.

Re: [Jason] If any item's checkbox is true

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:14:25 -0700

Thank you, Jason.

But I'm confused and don't understand why you used the entire record set, as you say.

Why do that if the top code's Where clause is limiting output to show only checked records and that's the only records the poster said he wanted outputted and displayed?

Wouldn't you only need the getRecords array top code with that Where clause that limits displayed records to those with the box checked, and then as you say just use in the bottom code a foreach loop, without surrounding that as you did with the call of the entire record set (i.e., the which you added)?

Thanks for clarifying this and helping me understand.

David

Re: [Jason] If any item's checkbox is true

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:52:09 -0700

Hi Jason,

I'm following this, trying to learn, and have a couple of questions.

1. With respect to your use of , I would have thought that this IF would have been something like if if($record['new_item'] ==1). Can you please explain and help me understand why you used instead ? Does this catch and include an item if it is other than O, so that ==1 does not need to be used?

2. Why is there the need for this IF clause in light of the 'where' => "new_item = '1'", at the top? I would have thought that this would have only included records where the new_tem field was set to 1, which would obviate a need for the IF clause.

Thanks in advance for helping me understand and clarifying these things.

David

Re: [ross] How to have
added in
category menu link list generated by CMSB generated

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:56:37 -0700

Thanks Ross. Let's for now do the second thing you said, i.e., give me some code you think will work and I'll test it and let you know the results. You should probably be able to give me some code that will create the unordered list structure that needs to work for this.

Thanks,
David

Re: [Jason] How to have
added in
category menu link list generated by CMSB generated

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:31:38 -0700

Thanks, Jason.

Two things:

[1] I'd like to understand _isLastChild better. When I first looked at the code in your reply, I didn't understand this line:

To me, this says that if the item is _isLastChild and it does not have a child. I didn't understand how something could be both _isLastChild but also have a child itself -- I had been assuming that _isLastChild meant the ultimate very last child at the very end of a branch (and since its the last item it would not have children), thus a last child item would not by definition have a child. But your code made me think that _isLastChild might instead mean the last child _in a level_ (and the last child in a level can have children below it on a sub level).

So, what exactly does _isLastChild specifically mean? Does it mean last child in a level, and not the ultimate very last child at the very end of a branch?

[2] At first your code did not work and outputted only php errors about undefined variables. I tweaked it a little by replacing the variable names you used to be the ones I used and it output the list without php errors, but it did not output and render the list properly. My list should be indented like this:

1st No Alpha Test Category
Cats
Dogs
- Alaskan Huskie
-- Musher Huskie
-- Sarah Palin Huskie
- Boxers
-- Long Hair
-- Short Hair
Fish

Using _listItemStart did generate it indented like this, as I should be.

BUT your code put Fish indented in one level, putting it at the same level as Alaskan Huskie and Boxers, i.e., as a sub of Dogs, and not at the same level as Dogs as it should be as shown immediately above. Here's what your code generated after I tweaked it to use the correct variable names:

1st No Alpha Test Category
Cats
Dogs
- Alaskan Huskie
-- Musher Huskie
-- Sarah Palin Huskie
- Boxers
-- Long Hair
-- Short Hair
- Fish

And here's the code that generated this (i.e., your code that I corrected the variable names in):

And here's the the html for this that got generated using your code:

 
  367   
  368     
  369      1st No Alpha Test Category 
  370     
  371       
  372        
 
  373       
  374       
  375       
  376       
  377 
  378      Cats 
  379     
  380       
  381        
 
  382       
  383       
  384       
  385       
  386 
  387      Dogs 
  388     
  389       
  390         
  391           
  392       
  393       
  394       
  395       
  396 
  397      Alaskan Huskie 
  398     
  399       
  400         
  401           
  402       
  403       
  404       
  405       
  406 
  407      Musher Huskie 
  408     
  409       
  410        
 
  411       
  412       
  413       
  414       
  415 
  416      Sarah Palin Huskie 
  417     
  418       
  419        
 
  420       
  421       
  422       
  423          
 
  424        
 
  425       
  426       
  427 
  428      
Boxers 
  429     
  430       
  431         
  432           
  433       
  434       
  435       
  436       
  437 
  438      Long Hair 
  439     
  440       
  441        
 
  442       
  443       
  444       
  445       
  446 
  447      Short Hair 
  448     
  449       
  450        
 
  451       
  452       
  453       
  454          
 
  455        
 
  456       
  457       
  458 
  459      
Fish 
  460     
  461       
  462        
 
  463       
  464       
  465       
  466          
 
  467        
 
  468       
  469       
  470 
  471
 
  472

So the question now is, with this testing feedback from me, what should the code be to output and generate the list properly with the correct indentation?

It looks like a closing to close the sub level under Dogs needs to be added before the

is generated before Fish. In other words, it seems that the code has to somehow adjust for what sub level, or sub sub level or sub sub sub level, the item immediately above Fish is at. I'm hoping the code you reply with will adjust for this, since the above is just a simple working example and my actual site may have different or more levels than this simple working example. I'm guessing it probably is something like some code that selects the last child in a level that adds the closing for sub levels to close it off else the item below will be included in the same level.

Thanks in advance, looking forward to the code you can supply.

David

Thanks,
David

Re: [davidcmsb] Need Help with a Category Menu styling problem please

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:21:56 -0700

Follow up -- Eureka, with a little more fiddling I got it to work, using this code:

 
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I figured out that I needed to use an elseif, and structure it this way, with the most specific condition as the first IF, and then the more general as the ELSEIF, before then going on to everything else, i.e., [1] IF category menu item has a child and if a descendant is selected, then output null link and wrap in bold tag, or [2] ELSEIF category menu item has a child then output null link, otherwise [3] output the links and add bold tags if the item is the selected category.

So, I did get it working and thought I'd post this in case anyone thinks this is no good or there are better ways to do it. (Still haven't figured out the answer to what I posted about in my other post, about wrapping a

tag around the

How to have
added in
category menu link list generated by CMSB generated

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:00:21 -0700

Hi,

I want to use the category menu list of links to categories that CMSB generates with a menu script. This menu script is a Dreamweaver extension that generates the

div id="p7TMM_1" class="p7TMM04">
   81  
   82    Root Menu Item
   83      
   84        
   85          Menu Item

   86          Menu Item

   87          Menu Item

   88        

   89      

   90    

   91    Root Menu Item
   92      
   93        
   94          Menu Item

   95          Menu Item
   96            
   97              
   98                Menu Item

   99                Menu Item

  100                Menu Item

  101              

  102            

  103          

  104          Sub-Menu Item

  105          Sub-Menu Item

  106        

  107      

  108    

  109    Root Menu Item
  110      
  111        
  112          Current Mark

  113          Menu Item

  114          Menu Item

  115        

  116      

  117    

  118    Root Menu Item
  119      
  120        
  121          Menu Item

  122          Menu Item

  123          Menu Item

  124        

  125      

  126    

  127  

  128  
  131  
  134

tags (see, e.g., lines 83 & 89, 92 & 107, and 96 & 102, above).

I think I can add the first opening

by using the __hasChild function by using perhaps something like this which adds the div after the link if the category record has a child, for example this --

  
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BUT I just can't figure out after wrestling with it a long time just how to add the ending

tag. Something using _isLastChild perhaps, but I just can't figure out the exact code needed. And, it has to go after the

and

Need Help with a Category Menu styling problem please

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:34:35 -0700

Hi,

I'd appreciate help with this problem I'm trying to solve now about category menu styling.

By "category menu" I mean the list of links to categories that you can make appear on the web page you're designing.

I'm working on a vertical navigation menu, that is generated by CMSB and outputs a vertical list of links to the CMSB categories.

I want to make bold the selected category menu item link, and also make bold all of the ancestor parents of the selected category. In other words, I want to make the link to the category that is the current selected category appear in bold, and, also have all its ancestor links appear in bold too. I also want to do this in conjunction with having parent items in the category menu get rendered as null links. I've tried many code permutations and searched this forum to no avail.

Before explaining further, here's the base code I'm working off of and modifying to try to do the above is this code found in this forum:

 
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So, I was able to use and adapt this base code to have CMSB generate null links for the parent items, using the code shown below. The reason I wanted to learn how to do this is I think users will not realize that menu items that spawn drop downs that end in links are themselves clickable links, and to the user these type of menu items are more like headings rather than clickable menu links. This seems especially true with hover menus. So, I want any item in the category menu that is also a parent to just be a null link. Here's the code I used to do this:

 
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That works great, and if a category item is a parent of other submenu items, the link for the parent item gets generated as a null link so it acts only as a text heading that's not a link. This way, the menu item acts, as desired, only as a heading about the sub menu items it spawns and itself is not a clickable link since I don't want menu items that act as headings for sub items to have links attached to them.

OK, then, after getting the above right I wanted to also modify the base menu code I'm using to also make in bold the selected sub (or sub-sub) category menu item that is the currently selected one PLUS also all of its parent ancestors (and their parent ancestors). The base code I'm using does put in bold the link to the current selected category but not all its ancestors.

So I was able to modify the base code I'm working off to make the link to the selected category and all its ancestors appear in bold AND generate a null link for the ancestors of the selected category menu link, using this code:

 
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BUT, here's where I'm at a dead end and need help. I can't seem to make BOTH things happen, i.e., [1] have links to category menu items that have sub items get generated as null (i.e.,#) links, AND ALSO [2] have all ancestor menu items of the selected category menu item appear in bold. In other words, I can't find a way to combine both. I can get it to do either 1 or 2 (as shown above) but can't find the code that does the trick to do both.

I have tried the following code but it does not work in the sense that the parent menu items get generated with a null # link only if one of its descendants is selected. If a parent menu item's sub child menu items are not selected, it will generate the regular category url link. But what I want is (1) a category menu item that's a parent item should have a null # link, and (2) if a submenu item is the selected category, it AND all of its ancestors should appear in bold.

I had thought that if I somehow could combine two conditions in an IF statement that might be an approach, i.e., IF item has descendants AND item's descendant is selected, THEN generate null link and make it bold if a descendant is selected. But even writing this out now I can see that this logic is not right. Here's the code I tried but can't get to work to do both things:

 
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So I'd very much appreciate if anyone could supply the code I could use so that each of these things will happen:

1. A category menu item that's a parent item should always have a null # link.

2. If a submenu item is the selected category, it AND all of its ancestors should appear in bold.

Thank you very much!

Tag Cloud - need help

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Different headlines for same article appearing on list pages depending on Category selected by public end user????

How to generate nav menu for only particular part of a Category menu tree branch?

Install question

Re: [Jason] Selected item in nav using _isSelectedBranch

Re: [rez] If any item's checkbox is true

Re: [Jason] If any item's checkbox is true

Re: [Jason] If any item's checkbox is true

Re: [ross] How to have added in category menu link list generated by CMSB generated

Re: [Jason] How to have added in category menu link list generated by CMSB generated

Re: [davidcmsb] Need Help with a Category Menu styling problem please

How to have added in category menu link list generated by CMSB generated

Need Help with a Category Menu styling problem please

Re: [ross] How to have
added in
category menu link list generated by CMSB generated

Re: [Jason] How to have
added in
category menu link list generated by CMSB generated

How to have
added in
category menu link list generated by CMSB generated