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Whats the best way to check if a channel entry is assigned to any categories for a given category group.

I have the following set up in my template:

<dt>Category:</dt><dd>{categories show_group="5" backspace="2"}{category_name}, {/categories}</dd>

However, i would like an {if} statement to check the number of categories first. If the count is 0 then i dont want to output this <dt> in my template at all. Im aware of the {total_results} variable but this seems to relate to the entry i am viewing and not the number of categories found.

Haven’t found anything in the documentation about this so far.

Thanks.

Have you seen:

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/entry-category-count/

That should help.

Thanks for the suggestion but it doesnt look like this will allow us to specify a category group to check against. It’s also for EE1.0.

This sounds like a good possible feature request. For the time being I would, perhaps, suggest a custom SQL query.