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Steven v d H
Posted: 11 July 2008 12:57 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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HI,

I have a dynamic rendered submenu in which a list of categories from a specific weblog.
Now I want to highlight the category link on the page I have navigated to. I mean; on the page itself I do not want to have the caregory link which belongs to this page to have the same markup. Is this possible?

thanks, Steven.
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Ingmar Greil
Posted: 11 July 2008 01:18 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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You’ll probably want to use a conditional together with URL segments.

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Steven v d H
Posted: 11 July 2008 01:27 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Hi,

I have tried that but then all of my categories links are affected.
See the code:

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="portfolio" style="linear" show_empty="no"}
{if "{category_name}" == "{segment_4}"}
<h2>{category_name}</h2>
{if:else}
<p><a href="{path=portfolio/photos}">{category_name}</a></p>
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:categories}

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Posted: 11 July 2008 06:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Try

{if category_name == segment_4}

instead.

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Steven v d H
Posted: 11 July 2008 07:44 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Hi Michael,

that does’nt work either. Whe I use {category_name} nothing changes at all. When I hardcode the category name, that is:

{if "archive" == segment_4}

for example the whole list is affected with the style (ofcourse),

Steven
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Posted: 11 July 2008 07:49 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Oh - sorry.  You should be looking at {category_url_title} instead as that’s what will appear in the URL.

{if segment_4==category_url_title}

I should have caught that the first time around, sorry…;)

And not sure if it’ll make a difference but try flipping your conditional around to the order I’ve shown.

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Steven v d H
Posted: 11 July 2008 07:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Michael,

excellent!! that works!
thanks a lot,

Steven.
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Posted: 11 July 2008 11:16 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Cool - glad to hear it.

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Steven v d H
Posted: 23 July 2008 01:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Hi Michael,

another related question:
the highlighting works well if I can tell in what segement I am in. But:... If I am on a detail (or comments) page I can’t use this segment statement. How can achieve the same here? You must know the answer…(??)
(i have asked similar to Ingmar on another of my posts, sorry..)

Steven.
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Steven v d H
Posted: 25 July 2008 02:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Michael,

I read about the related_categories_mode for showing -well- related category items on a single entry page. But how about when you want to show images from the gallery using the related entries tag?

<div class="overview">
<ul class="normal">
<li class="colspan">Random entries</li>
{exp:weblog:entries related_categories_mode="on" limit="4"}
<li>
<a href="{url_title_path=portfolio/detail}">
{related_entries id="image1_portfolio"}
<img src="{thumb_url}" width="{thumb_width}" height="{thumb_height}" border="0" alt="{title}" title="{title}">
{/related_entries}
</a>
</li>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul>
</div>

That does not work. Is there a way to do this? THANKS!
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