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I have searched for a few hours on this topic. I have a set of entries I want to display, but depending upon their category, I want it to use a different url path. How do I make this work?

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="articles" limit="4"}


{if category == "221"}
    <a href="http://{title_permalink=">{image}</a>
{if:else}
    <a href="http://{title_permalink=">{food_front_image}</a>
{/if}


{/exp:weblog:entries}

What am I missing here?

Hiya,

You’ll be needing to take a look at using the {categories} tag pair for this. Something like below should hopefully work for you :

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="articles" limit="4"}

{categories}
{if category_id == "221"}
    <a href="http://{title_permalink=">{image}</a>
{if:else}
    <a href="http://{title_permalink=">{food_front_image}</a>
{/if}
{/categories}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

I had tried something similar but not exactly that. Let me see if it works. Thanks.

Well, that caused nothing to show.

Do you mean nothing on the page or nothing in the source code?

Pretty sure it should be working. Perhaps test like this instead :

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="articles" limit="4"}

{categories}
{if category_id == "221"}
Category 221
{if:else}
A different category
{/if}
{/categories}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

If that shows some text then perhaps your image variables aren’t working for some reason?

Best wishes,

Mark

Nothing shows within the if statements, even with that text thrown in. Is there maybe something missing out of the exp:weblog:entries tag?

What type of URL are you viewing the template at?

Perhaps try adding in the dynamic=“off” parameter to the weblog entries tag. See if that helps.

Best wishes,

Mark

Pet Rescue Barbie,

let us know if the addition of dynamic=“off” made a difference

If not then try a simple conditional inside there rather than the advanced

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="articles" limit="4"}

{categories}
{if category_id != "221"}
A different category
{/if}
{/categories}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

Sadly, neither of those worked.

Hi, PRB -

Can you let us know what this outputs?

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="articles" limit="4"}

<h1>{title}</h1>
{categories}
{category_id}: {category_name}

{/categories}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

Please try this in a totally blank template, with only this code, and give us the link to that test template.

While you’re doing this, please let us know your version and build. =)

Thank you!

Something like this might do the trick:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="weblog-name"}
<a href="{path='template-name'}{categories}{category_url_title}{/categories}/{url_title}">
{/exp:weblog:entries}

I used this in EE1.6.9

Let us know what you find, Pet Rescue Barbie.