i’m trying to create a navigation based on

{exp:weblog:categories}

<a href=”{path=mysite/company}”>{category_name}</a>

{/exp:weblog:categories}

but my problem is that all the links in that list point to the same template and each category needs to have a differnt layout for the entries. nothing major in terms of layout just that some categories should show the entries with just a title and a summary while other categories need to display title and body.

for example under the weblog called company i have two categories (i have more than that, just keeping it simple) “Who we are” and “Jobs”. the layout for “who we are” needs to just show the {title} and the {body} of the entry where as “jobs” needs to show just the {title} and the {summary}.

there’s only two ways that i think this might be able to get this effect but i’m not finding any details on it.

the first way might be by setting a direct url to each category so i could point it to a special template (just like with a weblog). is that possible??

the other idea would be by using the same template for all the categories but have a bunch of {if} statements to hide or show elements based on the current selected category (just like with {group_id}). is that possible??

how would i go about doing either one of them, or is there a better way to do this all together??

thanks
scott

My own preferences, where you would require different layouts, would be to use totally different weblogs.

But otherwise, you could make speciality templates and just use exp:weblog:entries with hte propery category and then proper layout - then hardlink to that template.

I’m not sure you could use this with that container tag though. :(

ya i already have quite a few weblogs for all the other sections. and each section has their own sub-sections (categories in this case). i would prefer to use just one template to list the entries of the section’s categories. so is there anyway to do an {if} statement based on category? maybe even using php?

thanks

there are examples here of using php to do that, but I don’t have a specific link.  It has be be php because each entry can have multiple categories so the ee conditionals don’t handle it.

A search for php category or similar should bring up some ideas. =)

thanks! i’ll check it out

i guess i just need to handcode the category list so i can define the unique link and any classes for css styling.
thanks

Unless I’m totally misunderstanding what you’re trying to do then I think you could pull off what you want using {if} conditionals depending on what you need to have change from category to category. It sounds like you just want to change what parts of each listing is displayed depending on the category rather than the whole template being a completely different style and if so then it should be doable.

Of course, depending on how many categories you’ve got that could add up to a lot of IF statements.