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Hi, having a bit of trouble figuring this one out, any tips appreciated…

I have my category list hidden by jQuery, and only visible on “article” pages and category listings. Articles are working fine, by using conditionals to load a different script based on embed:blogcats content, like so:

{if '{embed:blogcats}' == 'catsclosed'}
...path to script to hide category sidebar
{if:else}
...path to script to show category sidebar
{/if}

But I need to add a way to detect if the user is viewing a category listing page, and also show the categories list open on there. Something like this:

{if '{embed:blogcats}' == 'catsclosed'}
...path to script to hide category sidebar
{if:elseif '{segment_2}' == 'category'}
...path to script to show category sidebar
{if:else}
...path to script to show category sidebar
{/if}

I’ve been trying all sorts of ways to do it but I can’t seem to get the right combination.

Thanks!

Cormac

Edit: Oh right, script source links are [removed]. Updated.

Hi Cormac,

Have you had a look at the MD Detect Page Type plugin? It takes care of the hassle of detecting which type of page it is.

What code are you using to display the category listing? It depends on how you’re displaying them what kind of method to use to ‘open’ a certain category.

Greetz,
Wouter

Thanks Wouter, I’ll give that plugin a try and see how it works out.

I’m using the following code for the categories list, it’s within an embed “blogsidebar.php”

<ul class="blogNav">
{exp:weblog:categories weblog="blog" style="linear" id="subnav" show_empty="no"}
<li>
{if segment_2 == 'C{category_id}'}
<a href="http://{path=%27blog/%27}" class="current">{category_name}</a></li>
{if:else}
<a href="http://{path=blog/}">{category_name}</a></li>
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:categories}

</ul>