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Hi,

I have a question.

Currently there are around 20 entries in multiple weblogs, these entries all have an appropriate categorie assigned and now i want to display all the entries in one categorie.

The question is, HOW?

I tried everything, read through all the docs and the forum, but didn’t find anything which could help me out.

Hope anyone can help.

Hi Kevin,

You should be able to do this quite simply using the “category” parameter, i.e.

{exp:weblog:entries  weblog="blog1|blog2|blog3"  category="20" }
*SNIP*
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Unless I’ve misunderstood your problem.

Cheers,
Steve.

well, you’re right on that, but how do I convert the categorie name to categorie ID?

Hi Kevin,

Unfortunately because of a number of issues with using names you have to use the ID… Ellis explain it better than I can:

Categories are specified by ID number (the ID number of each category is displayed in the Control Panel). The reason we use the ID is because categories can be called anything (with spaces, quotes, etc.), and also renamed. It would be much more difficult to have to update the tag parameters every time you updated a category name. Further, you can have multiple categories with the same name either in different Category Groups or in different parts of the hierarchy within the same Category Group.

Are you stuck with having to use the name (rather than the ID)?

S.

Yes, as a matter of fact i do.

But, I could try to hard code the relation between id and title.

I have had to do that myself in the past in certain circumstances - the problem then comes if you have to change a category name, but that may not be an issue in your case.

S.

Well, unfortunately it is.

Did you solved this problem with PHP or just plain EE tags?

On the one project that this came up with I actually ended up altering the URL to include both the name and ID of the category - messy, but it worked in that particular case.

Basically I ended up with:

http://www.example.com/cat1/12/cat2/13/cat4/14

I could then use segment_1, 3 and 5 when I needed to refer to the name, and segment_2, 4 and 6 when I needed the ID.

Less than ideal perhaps, but it worked OK in my case.

Perhaps someone else can suggest a better solution for you - apologies I wasn’t much help. 😊

S.

Thanks for your help, though it’s not perfect.

I am thinking of hardcoding the relationships between id’s and their categories.
Put them in a seperate template, so it stays at least kind of noob-friendly to edit things on the website.

Your example ain’t very search engine friendly as well, which is kind of the reason why we bought EE in the first place.

Well, I really hope someone has a better idea…

I understand.

The reason I went for my approach was because the example above is better for SEO than simply having the ID.

I’ll also be interested to see if someone has an alternative solution.

Ok, I think i am having a little conflict here:

where this works absolutely fine:

I think this means conflict, but i don’t know where, what and, most important, why…

Yep - you can’t use a weblog:entries tag within a weblog:entries tag, that’s why you’ll be having problems with the first example.

Yep - you can’t use a weblog:entries tag within a weblog:entries tag, that’s why you’ll be having problems with the first example.

Okay, I changed that, and now, the right part shows, but the left part doesn’t!
So, I keep calling it a conflict 😛.

Show us the code you have now and I’ll have another look. 😉

There you go.