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Categories not working

May 30, 2012 10:46am

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  • #1 / May 30, 2012 10:46am

    I have used categories a bazillion times without incident so I think I’m just having a brain failure moment, but for some reason I can not get categories to work and allow the user to sort the entries from the weblog in question by the assigned category. I have the global weblog preferences turned on so that the category_url_titles are being used and the trigger word is “category”.

    I stripped out all other code and here is the page I’m having issues with.
    http://www.summerbeach.com/rentals/index.php/photogallery-tester/

    If you click on a category, say “Sea Chase” the page returns all the entries, not just the ones categorized as Sea Chase as expected.
    http://www.summerbeach.com/rentals/index.php/photogallery-tester/category/sea_chase

    This is my code:

    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="photos" limit="100" dynamic="on" category_group="2"}
              <!-- ======= div for rental preview starts ========= -->
              <div>
                    <h4>Category Assigned: {categories}<a href="http://{site_url}index.php/photogallery-tester/category/{category_url_title}">{category_name}</a>{/categories}</h4>
    <p>                <div><br />
                           <a href="http://{site_url}index.php/photogallery/view/{url_title}">{exp:imgsizer:size src="{gallery-cover}" width="209" height="223" alt="{title}" title="{title}"}</a><br />
                    </div><br />
                  </p><h4>{title}</h3> 
              </div>
              <!-- ======= div for rental preview ends ========= -->
               {/exp:weblog:entries}

    I also tried

    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="photos" limit="100" dynamic="on" category_group="2"}
              <!-- ======= div for rental preview starts ========= -->
              <div>
                    <h4>Category Assigned: {categories}<a href="http://{path=summerbeach/photogallery-tester}">{category_name}</a>{/categories}</h4>
    <p>                <div><br />
                           <a href="http://{site_url}index.php/photogallery/view/{url_title}">{exp:imgsizer:size src="{gallery-cover}" width="209" height="223" alt="{title}" title="{title}"}</a><br />
                    </div><br />
                   <h4>{title}</h3> <br />
              </div><br />
              <!-- ======= div for rental preview ends ========= --><br />
               {/exp:weblog:entries}

    What am I doing wrong? Running ExpressionEngine v 1.7.0

  • #2 / May 30, 2012 12:55pm

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    Boyink!

    5011 posts

    What happens if you remove the dynamic and category group parameters?

  • #3 / May 30, 2012 1:03pm

    It worked. So simple. Gah. Thanks!

  • #4 / May 30, 2012 1:04pm

    Boyink!'s avatar

    Boyink!

    5011 posts

    Check the docs on the category_id parameter to understand why…;)

  • #5 / May 30, 2012 5:58pm

    Shane Eckert's avatar

    Shane Eckert

    7174 posts

    Hey gofreshdesign,

    I am glad to see that Mike was able to help you out!

    If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

    Cheers,

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