Category ID Not Evaluating or Displaying

#1 / Feb 27, 2014 5:57pm

dallasthiele

6 posts

Just found out category_id isn’t functioning sitewide. Since it’s barely used I didn’t realize it wasn’t working and I’m not sure when it stopped.

I use it in one of my templates with the following:

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" limit="1" status="open" site="naperville"}
<h2>Recent Blog</h2>
<h3>{if category_id == '28'}<a href="/mystory">{if:else}<a href="/resources/blogs/#reflections" class="{category_id}">{/if}{title}</a></h3>
<p>{blog_description}<br />
by {blog_author}<br />
{exp:word_limit total="30"}<br />
{blog_content}<br />
{/exp:word_limit}<br />
{if category_id == '28'}<a href="/mystory">Read more</a>{if:else}<br />
<a href="/resources/blogs/">Read more</a>{/if}<br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

The template is returning {category_id} as the class and every blog is returning the else if my conditionals.

Any idea what could be causing this?

#2 / Mar 07, 2014 7:14am

ahmad saad

364 posts

Hi,

{category_id} is not a {channel:entries} variable , u must put it in {categories}{/categories}loop like this:

exp:channel:entries channel="blog" limit="1" status="open" site="naperville"}
<h2>Recent Blog</h2>
<h3>{categories}{if category_id == '28'}<a href="/mystory">{if:else}<a href="/resources/blogs/#reflections" class="{category_id}">{/if}{title}</a>{/categories}</h3>
<p>{blog_description}<br />
by {blog_author}<br />
{exp:word_limit total="30"}<br />
{blog_content}<br />
{/exp:word_limit}<br />
{categories}{if category_id == '28'}<a href="/mystory">Read more</a>{if:else}<br />
<a href="/resources/blogs/">Read more</a>{/if}{/categories}<br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

check http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/add-ons/channel/channel_entries.html#id145 for more info

#3 / Mar 09, 2014 2:14pm

dallasthiele
6 posts

Thank you Ahmad! Did not realize it was a tag pair. So obvious now that I look back at the documentation.

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