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Hi, I think I have a fairly simple question

I got a index page listing all category entries
domainname.com/library/topic/literature (the magic category name is ‘topic’) and its listing all the entries in the category ‘literature’.

But on the top of the page I would like to display the name of this category. I could just put

{segment_3}

but that its not always good if I have a segment 3 that is more than one word (example: life-on-earth) and of course I could remove dash by using a plugin to remove it, but then again, the the category name is not formated correctly with caps.

Is there anyway I can make sure I use the category_name as the header?

Cheers

If I’m following you correctly, you should be able to use Low’s Seg to cat plug in.  In conjunction with the following to accomplish this.

{exp:channel:categories id="{segment_3_category_id}"}
{category_name}
{/exp:channel:categories}

http://loweblog.com/software/low-seg2cat/

-Tom Jaeger

Hi, thanks for the tip, I think that would work, except, struggling just doing

{exp:channel:categories style="linear" show="4"}{category_name}{/exp:channel:categories}

ID 4 is a subcategory of 3, when I tested

{exp:channel:categories style="linear" show="3"}{category_name}{/exp:channel:categories}

it worked, but when I tried ID 4 it wouldn’t display. I found this strange

If you want to show sub categories, set parent_only=“no” in your exp:channel:categories tag.

Kevin, thanks for that time,
I wish it was that easy, this is the code I’m using

{exp:channel:categories style="linear" parent_only="no" show="4"}{category_name}{/exp:channel:categories}

and it’s still not working :(

You need to surround {category_name} with the {categories} tag pair.

{exp:channel:categories style="linear" parent_only="no" show="4"}

{categories}
{category_name}
{/categories}

{/exp:channel:categories}

Best wishes,

Mark

Yes of course, forgot to put that in that code on this forum, put I was using this code still without result:

{exp:channel:categories style="linear" parent_only="no" show="4"}{categories}{category_name}{/categories}{/exp:channel:categories}

Thanks for helping

Oops sorry. I could have sworn above I saw you using a Channel entries tag but I must have been reading another forum post as I can see that you’re using the categories tag.

Have you tried supplying the channel parameter to the channel:categories tag?

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi, Robert. Have you seen this in the docs:

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/conditional_variables.html#cond_if_category_request

Also don’t forget the Category Heading Tag.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks for adding that, Mark.

Robert - does this info help?

Unfortunately still not working.
I tried both Sue and Mark’s suggestion and still doesnt give any output.

YES!!!! Finally, Start working when I specified ‘channel’

{exp:channel:category_heading channel="library"}
{category_name}
{/exp:channel:category_heading}

Thanks for great help - a specially thank to Mark who put me on the track to successful code!

Cheers,

Glad things are working again.. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.