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Hi I’ve got a menu built with category parents and children and I’m displaying the children (menu items) using the category parent id:

{if segment_3 == 'category-name1'|'category-childname1'|'category-childname2'|'childname3'}   style="linear"  category_id"15" incl_self="no"{/if}
{if segment_3 == 'category-name2'|'category-childname1'|'category-childname2'|'childname3'}   style="linear"  category_id"15" incl_self="no"{/if}
{if segment_3 == 'category-name3'|'category-childname1'|'category-childname2'|'childname3'}   style="linear"  category_id"15" incl_self="no"{/if}

<li {if category_url_title == segment_3} class="current"{/if}>
<a href="http://{path=">{category_name}</a></li>

and works for:

http://www.mywebsite.com/category/category-name

BUT

if I type in the URL

http://www.mywebsite.com/category/

the menu goes all over the place and pulls in all entries, what would be the best way to control the url here

something like…

{if segment_3 [b]DOESN'T EQUAL[/b] 'category-name3'|'category-childname1'|'category-childname2'|'childname3'}   style="linear"  category_id"15" incl_self="no"{/if}

<li><a href="http://{path=">page [b]NOT found[/b]</a></li>

Would low-seg2cat be the answer?]

Thanks

Hi pixelcamp,

I’m a bit perplexed by the template code you’ve got here without its context. It looks like the conditionals are within something meaningful, but I’m not sure what that is. Could you post back the full template? Or at least the parts of the template surrounding this?

Thanks Kein,

my main prob is that as soon as I type something after my category indicator (in the url) ie mywebsite.com/template/catgeory/I can type anything here and it will display, I want to disable this so anything other than category urls will redirect to a 404, is there a simple way to do that (rather not use strict urls) Thanks

Are you going to have a channel entries tag on the page?  If so- could you do a 404 for no results?  If so- then just add a conditional so

{if segment_3 == 'category' && segment_4 == ''} 404 redirect….

Of course- you might want something different for a ‘valid’ no results….  In which case- perhaps use the query module- do a query for a category_url_title = {segment_3}, and no results does a 404.

Either of those approaches do the trick?

Thanks, works for my parent categories (Product1 | Product2 | Product3), so ‘ProductBlahadasadsasd’ redirects, but I also have child categories assigned to a parent - to display a menu (Product1_red | Product1_blue | Product1_yellow) and when I click these even though it should match the segment -its triggering the redirect when I don’t want it to… any ideas?

Cheers guys

I wonder if there are benefits to building the menu like this?

Product1 (Category)
–Product1_red (entry title)
results - assigned to categories

instead of

Product1 (Category parent)
–Product1_red (Category child)
results - related links

seems its the child categories which aren’t being recognised as a category_url_title hence the unexpected redirect

Cheers

Hrm- it should work, I think.  Which method did you go with- can you paste the simplified code?