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I’m creating a site that includes a bunch of recipes for fish. When a visitor is looking at a certain kind of fish, the site owner would like a sidebar to display up to 3 recipes that are associated with that type of fish. If there aren’t 3 recipes for that type of fish in the system, they’d like the sidebar to display enough recipes from other kinds of fish to make a total of 3 recipes.

I thought I’d create a channel called recipes and populate that separate from my standard content channel. I’d assign a fish category to each recipe. I’m trying to figure out how I would then:

1) Load up to 3 recipes from a certain category.
2) If there aren’t 3 recipes, load 1,2 or 3 from the rest of the categories (not the one I originally tried)
3) Output summaries (pulled out of a summary custom field in the recipe) and links to the 3 recipes together as a group.

I think I can do it using conditionals, but I’m not sure how to pull from categories other than the one I tried initially. Will someone tell me how to do that?

Thanks,

Troy

I’d look into using embeds, I’m only just discovering their power so bare with the crude code…

on the actual article page in the recipe section:

{embed="_sideitems/recipes" categories="fish"}

then in _sideitems/recipes I’d put something like (dont quote me)

{exp:channel:entries channel="yourrecipeschannel" limit="3" sortby="{embed:categories}"}
  {!-- That last bit sortby="{embed:categories}" ... pulls the variable we set in the 1st bit
and uses the category to sort the results by --}
  {title}, {body} {URL} etc
{/exp}

Thanks, Cheif.

Troy, this would be a better question for the CodeShare Corner as there are multiple approaches. Shifting this over there.

Okay…thanks to both of you.

Troy