Hi Ryan,

For some reason the code as this does not work:

But the code as this works correctly:

Thank you for looking into that. I ended up getting this to work with some much simpler CSS (not IE6 friendly, but IE6 users should just see a spaced list of items with no commas, so no real harm there). Here is the CSS:

That puts a comma after every item in the list except the last one.

Hello,

how can I use a custom category field, I need it between the child_category_start and _end tags

Thanks for your reply,
Tim

Hi Tim,

Since Child Categories plugin cannot output contents of custom category fields, you should use this plugin together with som other EE tag, such as exp:weblog:category_archive or exp:weblog:categories. If you use Child Categories plugin together with some of these tags, don’t forget to add

parameter to exp:child_categories tag!

Unfortunately, these EE tags require parameter “weblog” to be defined.

If you can specify exactly one weblog, then your code could be somethind like this:

Hello,

I want Category name and Entries in a collapsible menu, There is no subcategories.
For Example

Category 1
- Entry 1
- Entry 2
Category 2
- Entry 3
- Entry 4

My code using this plugin is as below.

{exp:weblog:categories category_group=“3”  weblog=“weblog_name” dynamic=“off” style=“linear”}

  {exp:child_categories parent=”{category_id}” child_categories_sort_by=“custom” child_categories_sort_direction=“asc” show_empty=“no” entries_sort_by=“date” entries_sort_direction=“asc” entries_limit=“5” site=“1”}

      {parent_category_start}
        <a href=”{site_url}index.php/servers/category/C{parent_category_id}”>{parent_category_name}</a><br>
      {parent_category_end}

      {entries_start}
        <a href=”{site_url}index.php/servers/category/C{child_category_id}/{url_title}/”>{title}</a><br>
      {entries_end}

  {/exp:child_categories}

{/exp:weblog:categories}

It shows categories but does not show entries.

Do I forget to add something in code?

Thanks

Hi Asite,

Child Categories plugin does not display entries if there are no subcategories.
To display entries posted into certain categories you should use exp:weblog:category_archive tag.

For this project I have categories, subcategories and products. I am displaying the categories on 1 template (index) and the subcategory on another template (list),
and the products belonging to that subcategory on another template (prod-list) and a detailed description of the product on another template called (detail). All templates
are in the same template group (products).

1 Weblog called “products”
1 Category Group assigned to Weblog “prodcuts” with following structure:

LEVEL1   Fruit
LEVEL2     Apricot
LEVEL2     Cherry
LEVEL2     Citrus

LEVEL1   Vegetables
LEVEL2     Beans
LEVEL2     Beets
LEVEL2     Carrots

I template group (products) with the following templates:
  index
  list
  product-list
  detail

I use 2 plugins: child categories and category id

The index template displays the 2 LEVEL1 categories: Fruit and Vegetables

{exp:weblog:categories weblog=“products” parent_only=“yes” style=“linear”}
                        <li class=“left-img left-img-2”><a href=”{path=products/list}”>{category_image}{category_name}</a></li>
{/exp:weblog:categories}

When I click on the fruit or vegetable link in the index template I link to
“list” template and display the LEVEL2 sub-categories: Apricot, Cherry, Citrus.
I am using the category ID plugin to call my category name from segment_4 and convert it into an ID for the category_id. This works fine.

{if segment_4!=”“}
{exp:category_id category_group=“3” category_url_title=”{segment_4}” parse=“inward”}
{exp:child_categories parent=”{category_id}” child_categories_sort_direction=“asc” show_empty=“yes” entries_sort_direction=“asc” parse=“inward”}
{child_category_start}
                        <li class=“left-img left-img-2”><a href=”{path=products/prod-list/{parent_category_url_title}/{child_category_url_title}}”><img src=”{child_category_image}” width=“141” height=“140” alt=”{child_category_name}
title=” />{child_category_name}</a></li>
{child_category_end}
{/exp:child_categories}
{/exp:category_id}
{/if}

When I click on one of the sub-categories from the “list” template, I link to another template called “product-list” which should display all the products assigned to this sub-category. At this point I am stuck.
I tried to pass the {parent_category_id} and {child_category_id} into the url and again grab it from the segment. However, this approach doesnt seem to work.

{if segment_3!=”“}
{exp:category_id category_group=“3” category_url_title=”{segment_3}” parse=“inward”}
{exp:child_categories parent=”{category_id}” child_categories_sort_direction=“asc” show_empty=“yes” entries_sort_direction=“asc” parse=“inward”}
{child_category_start}
                        <li class=“left-img left-img-2”><a href=”{path=products/details}”><img src=”{child_category_image}” width=“141” height=“140” alt=”{child_category_name}
title=” />{child_category_name}</a></li>
{child_category_end}
{/exp:child_categories}
{/exp:category_id}
{/if}

My last step will be to display a detailed prodcut description. This will link to the “detail” template.

I am not sure if I am going about this the correct way. Is there a mistake in my code or should I structure/rethink my approach? I would appreciate some pointers.

thank you very much,

florian - 05 February 2009 03:14 PM

{if segment_4!=”“}
{exp:category_id category_group=“3” category_url_title=”{segment_4}” parse=“inward”}
{exp:child_categories parent=”{category_id}” child_categories_sort_direction=“asc” show_empty=“yes” entries_sort_direction=“asc” parse=“inward”}
{child_category_start}
                        <li class=“left-img left-img-2”><a href=”{path=products/prod-list/{parent_category_url_title}/{child_category_url_title}}”><img src=”{child_category_image}” width=“141” height=“140” alt=”{child_category_name}
title=” />{child_category_name}</a></li>
{child_category_end}
{/exp:child_categories}
{/exp:category_id}
{/if}

When I click on one of the sub-categories from the “list” template, I link to another template called “product-list” which should display all the products assigned to this sub-category. At this point I am stuck.
I tried to pass the {parent_category_id} and {child_category_id} into the url and again grab it from the segment. However, this approach doesnt seem to work.

If I understood you correctly, you pass child_category_url_title from template “list” to template “prod-list” as the fourth url segment. Now, if you need child_category_id, use category_id plugin, as in template “list”:

That is correct. From template “list”, I pass {parent_category_url_title} as segment 3 and {chilc_category_url_title} as segment 4 to the templatel “prod-list”.

I updated the code for the “prod-list” template today and made some progress. In my previous code, I forgot to include the {entries} tag which is needed to display the entires for the subcategory. here is the current code:

The problem that I am having is that the entries dont display correctly. My theory is that it may not be possible to take segment 4 (which is child category url title) and use that as the {category-id} for the parent tag on the prod-list template?

the url structure on list is:
https://www.site.com/index.php/products/list/category/fruit/

the url structure on prod-list is:
https://www.site.com/index.php/products/prod-list/fruit/apricot/

when I try to use segment4 as my category_id, nothing displays. when I try to use segment3 all entries display from all subcategories, which makes sense because segment3 would be the main parent category.
Is there a solution?

Hi Florian,

Correct if I’m wrong:

1) “Fruit” is level 1 category

2) “Apricot” is level 2 category

3) there are some entries posted into category “Apricot”

4) you need to display those entries using URL https://www.site.com/index.php/products/prod-list/fruit/apricot/

1.) this is correct. Fruit is the level 1 category which holds a few subcategory, including:
2.) apricot is one of the level 2 categories.
3.) there are some weblog entries in the category apricot.
4.) I am not sure if I have to display them using the url https://www.site.com/index.php/products/prod-list/fruit/apricot/
This was the best solution that I was able to come up with that would let me display the entries of a certain category on the “prod-list” template. I passed the parent_category_url_title and child_category_url_title to the “prod-list” template when I link from the “list” template to a subcategory.

Yet another question: do you include “fruit” as the third URL segment because you want to display some info about level 1 category or just in order to have pretty URL?

on my “list” template, segment3, fruit gets displayed because I link to it with the category tag. So I think ee automatically puts segment2 “category”, and segment3 “fruit” in the url. When I link from “list” to “prod-list” template, I am passing parent_category_url_title which is segment3 or fruit, and I pass child_category_url_title which is segment4 or apricot. The reason I try it this way was because I thought that I needed to have that info in the url on the “prod-list” template so that I could read the category_id number and then display the entries for sub category apricot. Is this approach where the problem is?
So the reason is not for pretty url or anything, I am just trying to get it to work.

Hi Florian,

If you do not need to output any info about level 1 category, then you can simply use exp:weblog:entries tag; there is no need to use Child Categories plugin:

That worked for me. Thank you so much for your help.