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#31 / Jul 26, 2011 7:43pm

Leon Dijk
131 posts

Hi Richard,

Hope you had a good time in Spain!

Sure you can. That’s what the depthX_start_count and depthX_end_count variables are for.

Could you post exactly what code you want to produce and what the category structure looks like?

#32 / Jul 27, 2011 5:21am

Richard Wiggins

60 posts

Hi Leon,

Don’t worry, got it working this morning. Here’s the code I used:

{exp:gwcode_categories channel="industries" style="linear"}
{if cat_count == 1}
    <div class="group">
{/if}
        <div class="col">
            <h3><a href="http://{path=industries/{cat_url_title}}">{cat_name}</a></h3>
<p>            <ul><br />
                {embed="_includes/x_ind_menu" catid="{cat_id}" caturl="{cat_url_title}"}<br />
            </ul><br />
        </div><br />
{if cat_count == 3}<br />
    </div><br />
    <div class="group"><br />
{/if}<br />
{if cat_count == 6}<br />
    </div><br />
{/if}<br />
{/exp:gwcode_categories}

My embed looked like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="industries" disable="pagination" orderby="title" sort="asc" category="{embed:catid}"}
    <li><a href="http://{title_permalink=industries/{embed:caturl}}">{title}</a></li>
{/exp:channel:entries}

Really appreciate all your help.

Cheers, Richard

#33 / Jul 27, 2011 5:38am

Leon Dijk
131 posts

No problem Richard, good to hear you got it working!

#34 / Jun 07, 2013 12:56am

Nuvonium

10 posts

I’m trying to accomplish this same type of drop down menu system and I’m encountering issues as this thread describes.

Any guidance or help would be appreciated. I tried following example 11 but my code kept closing prematurely too. So I switched to using has_children in an if/then - it works - but it throws an error.

{exp:gwcode_categories channel="products"   excl_cat_id="11" show_empty="no" style="linear" status="open"}
      
       {if depth == 1}
        <li{if has_children} class="has-dropdown"{/if}>
         <a href="http://{site_url}shop/{complete_path}">{cat_name}</a>
        {if has_children}<!-- {depth} -->{if:else}</li><!-- {depth} -->{/if}
       {/if}
       
         {if depth2_start}
          <ul class="dropdown">
         {/if}
          {if depth == 2}
           <li><a href="http://{site_url}shop/{complete_path}">{cat_name}</a></li>
          {/if} 
         {if depth2_end}
          </ul>
          </li><!-- {depth} -->
         {/if}
        
    {/exp:gwcode_categories}

The error I’m getting, and I think it’s related to the has_children when no subcategories exist…

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: User Warning

Message: Invalid EE Conditional Variable: {if "1"2_start}

Filename: libraries/Functions.php

Line Number: 2749

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