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I have created a simple photo gallery that has the photos categorised using the built in categories functionality.

My template has a list of each category which acts as a link to display the photos for that particular category. This works absolutely fine.

Problem I am encountering is that when a user first visits the gallery page, it displays the photos from all categories. I would like to be able to only display the images from the first category.

My code to display the category links

<ul>
 
{exp:channel:categories channel="galleryImage" style="nested" class="category_list" sort="asc" show_empty="no" }

   
 <li {if count=="1"} class="first" {/if}  {if count=="{total_results}"} class="last" {/if} ><a href="http://{path=">{category_name}</a></li>

    
{/exp:channel:categories}

</ul>

And my code to display the images

<ul class="pop-up">

 {exp:channel:entries channel="galleryImage" limit="15" dynamic="on" }                  

      <li><a href="http://{galleryImage}">"]{galleryImage}</a>
{title}</li> 
                 
            
        {/exp:channel:entries}

</ul>

Note I have tried setting one of the categories to default using

To set a default category for a Channel you would go to Admin > Channel Administration > Channels > Edit Preferences (Your Channel Name) > Administrative Preferences

I would prefer not to have to put the link on my site main navigation as something like

http://www.mysite.com/index.php/gallery/category/category1

as I do not know what the categories are in advance as this is something the client will do and they could change completely.

Thanks in advance

Have you tried using the category attribute in the channel entries call?
http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/channel_entries.html#category

Yes I tried that but it then hard codes it to use the same category every time and ignores the dynamic URL elements.

Thanks

Maybe you could use conditionals in and test against the URL segments.

Hi Mediakitchen,

There are a few options available to help deal with categories in a more dynamic fashion.

You can look at Seg2Cat which will let you translate URL segments into category IDs

Also have a look at Solspace’s Primary Category. It allows you to assign a primary category by default in the channel entry and then call the default category for that channel in your templates using special tags.

Cheers!