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I’m using Structure so this may be a Structure question, but thought I’d try general support first. I have a directory page that shows a categories menu for various geographic locations. Each category contains a list of people with their website, phone, etc. The list is in a table.

Everything works fine on all the category pages, but on the directory landing page, I can’t figure out how not to show the table headings. I’ve tried a lot of different {if}, {if:else} combinations but nothing’s working. I’m new to EE and a novice with php. Here’s the code I’m using:

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="directory" dynamic="off"}
            <a href="?category={category_id}">{category_name}<a>
{/exp:weblog:categories}

              <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                <tr>
                  <th scope="col" valign="top">Name</th>
                  <th scope="col" valign="top">Website</th>
                  <th scope="col" width="20%" valign="top">Phone</th>
                  <th scope="col" valign="top">Area Served</th>
                  <th scope="col" valign="top">Specialty</th>
                </tr>
        {exp:weblog:entries weblog="directory" category="<?php echo $_GET['category']; ?>" dynamic="off"}
                <tr class="{switch="alt|even"}">
                  <td valign="top">{first_name} {last_name}</td>
                  <td valign="top">{website}</td>
                  <td valign="top">{phone}</td>
                  <td valign="top">{area}</td>
                  <td valign="top">{specialty}</td>
                </tr>
        {/exp:weblog:entries}
        </table>

Any ideas?
Flo

Have you seen the {if category_request} conditional? Might be what you’re looking for.

Thanks, but that doesn’t work either - wrapped it around the start of the table code - then it’s hidden on the landing page, but also on the categories pages.

Could you get away with looking at the URLs and using segment variables with a conditional to determine if you’re on the landing page? We may need to shift this over to How-to.

Brandon, you’re right - I should have been posting in “how to.”

I have tried working with segments. Added a plugin that can detect if a string is in one of the segments of the url - thought that would work, but it didn’t (at least not the way I did it).

flojnel,

What is the url of your directory landing page?

I am going to move this to the How to forum for you as more appropriate there as Brandon says.

http://homeovista.ehclients.com/homeopathy_clinic/directory/

Using the in_segments plugin, I checked a simple statement. The plugin seems to be working because a check for “directory” with an if statement produced the result I expected on the directory landing page. But a check for “category” on a category page didn’t work,even though they end with something like “directory/?category=4”.

I don’t know how to test to see if we’re on a category page. Being able to do that would solve the problem.

Flo

Flo,

If you wanted a conditional to check if you were on that URL specifically. I would do this.

{if (segment_2 == "directory") AND (segment_3 == "")}
Do something
{/if}

But a check for “category” on a category page didn’t work,even though they end with something like “directory/?category=4”.

That doesn’t look like a typical EE URL so I can’t help you there I’m afraid. An EE category URL would look like this

http://homeovista.ehclients.com/index.php/homeopathy_clinic/directory/C13/

or if you have named categories set

http://homeovista.ehclients.com/index.php/homeopathy_clinic/directory/category/category_name

I figured out some php that will give me a class of show or hide depending on whether or not there’s an argument after the “directory” segment.

<?php
function setClass() {
 $setClass = '';
 if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']==''){$setClass = "hide";}
else
{$setClass = "show";}
return $setClass;
}

echo "class=".setClass();
?></code></pre>

It's working in a test on the page to give the right class. However, I'm not sure how to integrate it with the following ee code:<pre><code><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

I want to give the table the class.

I’ve seen code where small snippets of php are integrated into the ee code, but how do you integrate an entire function?

OK - got it working. I didn’t realize I could still use the php variable right in the ee code. Very slick.

Thanks for all the help everyone. There’s a lot to figure out when you’re doing this for the first time and it’s great to know you have someplace to go to get ideas and support.

Flo