Dynamically displaying content of a category in a Nav format.

#1 / Mar 21, 2011 4:26pm

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I’m new to EE2, but picking it up pretty fast while building my first site in the CMS. I do have question for anyone who can answer. I’m trying to build a nav that holds 4 to 8 entries of a category.

example:

Category Name
entry
entry
entry
entry

The problem I’m having is how to dynamically request the entry id of the category. The way I thought it might work didn’t and I’ve been having a rough time trying to figure it out myself.

Heres the code I’ got so far.

<div id="collapsing-nav" class="grid_4">
{exp:channel:categories channel="work" style="linear"}
            <h6 class="nav-header" id="{category_url_title}_{category_id}"><a href="#">{category_name}:</a></h6>
    {exp:channel:entries channel="work" category_id="{category_id}" }
        {date_heading}
            <ul class="nav-content-area list-items">
        {/date_heading}    
            <a href="http://{permalink=%27work/view}" class="thumb">{project_thumb}</a>
        {date_footer}
            </ul>
        {/date_footer}
    {/exp:channel:entries}
{/exp:channel:categories}
</div>

Thanks in advance

#2 / Mar 21, 2011 6:40pm

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I’ve figured it out, apparently beating your head against the keyboard IS effective.
#3 / Mar 28, 2011 12:20pm

gazaston
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So what was the problem? And how’s the head? 😉

#4 / Mar 29, 2011 3:24pm

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<div id="collapsing-nav" class="grid_4">
<javascripting was here>
                <h6>Archives</h6>
<p>                {exp:channel:entries channel="{segment_1}" orderby="entry_date" category={if segment_4 == "{category_title_url}"}"{category_id}"{/if}}<br />
                {date_heading display="yearly"}<br />
                    <h6 class="nav-header"><a href="#">{entry_date format="%Y"}</a></h6><br />
                    <ul class="nav-content-area list-items"><br />
                {/date_heading}<br />
                    <li>{categories}{category_name}{/categories}:<a href="http://{url_title_path=thoughts/view/category/{category_url}}"> {title}</a> <br />
 <span class="meta">{entry_date format="%F %j %Y"}</span></li><br />
                {date_footer display="yearly"}<br />
                    </ul><br />
                {/date_footer}<br />
                {/exp:channel:entries}<br />
</div>

Here is the working code that does what I want it to, I played with the url segments to dynamically display the category type.
I think my brain is finally wrapping around how EE works. :D

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