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I’m trying to dynamically display the name of a category at the top of a list of entries, but I want it to be based on the URL structure.

For instance, if the URL reads

http://experienceresonate.com/media/browse/C20, where segment_03 == C20, I want the Category name for C20 to be displayed at the top of the page. I’m sure there’s a simple way to do this, but I haven’t been able to come up with any ideas. Any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated.

Thanks!

This should do the trick: http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/low-seg2cat/

So this appeared to be the perfect solution, but I can’t seem to get it working…

I have a category, 20, which the name is Galatians.

My URL structure is as follows http://experienceresonate.com/media/browse/20

If I use {segment_3_category_name}, it’s returning an empty string…

Sorry, I read your OP a bit too quickly. Seg2Cat does the opposite: http://experienceresonate.com/media/browse/Galatians would give you {segment_3_category_id), etc.

You want something like:

{exp:channel:categories id="{segment_3}"}

{category_name}

{/exp:channel:categories}

You’ll have to do a bit of find/replace (or substring, if you want to use raw php) magic to get rid of the C.

Or, change up your linking structure and get more-readable urls in the process ; )

Unfortunately, that’s not working either. I removed the “C” from my URL structure manually,

<div id="categorycontainer">
   <ul>
   {exp:channel:categories style="nested" channel="mediacontent"}
   <a href="http://experienceresonate.com/media/browse/{category_id}">{category_name}</a>
   {/exp:channel:categories}
   </ul>
</div><!-- END CATEGORY CONTAINER -->

and now - not only is the category name not being displayed with this -

{exp:channel:categories id="{segment_3}"}{category_name}{/exp:channel:categories}

..but no entries are being returned either. Any ideas?

Tried this too, with no better result:

{exp:channel:categories show="{segment_3}"}{category_name}{/exp:channel:categories}

Sorry if the suggestion’s too simplistic, but I always have trouble with code that’s been copied from web pages; try zapping some gremlins - there might be some funky characters in there.

Any other suggestions on this?

Currently, I have a main media page that on the right sidebar has a list of all my categories with links to the “browse” template, where the entries are dynamically limited by the URL:

<div id="mediarightsidebar">
        <h3>Browse By Category</h3>
<p>        <div id="categorycontainer"><br />
            {exp:channel:categories style="nested" channel="mediacontent"}<br />
            <a href="http://media/browse/C{category_id}/">{category_name}</a><br />
            {/exp:channel:categories}<br />
        </div><!-- END CATEGORY CONTAINER --><br />
    </div><!-- END MEDIA RIGHT SIDEBAR -->

Here’s my entire {media/browse} template code. Inline styles… gross I know. I’m working on it.

I’m using

{exp:channel:categories show="{segment_3}"}{category_name}{/exp:channel:categories}

to try to display the category name associated with the ID in URL {segment_3}.

Originally, I had thought that it wasn’t displaying the name because of the “C” that preceded the category ID in {segment_3}, but even when I remove it from the URL, it won’t display the name correctly…

Hi Brian,

Have you ever thought of using the {exp:channel:category_heading} tag? That particular tag is made for showing the name of the current viewed category. Also, I think it would be better if you don’t hardcode your category URL’s, but just use the {path} tag to generate the URL.

{exp:channel:categories style="nested" channel="mediacontent"}
  <a href="http://{path=media/browse}">{category_name}</a>
  // Generates: <a href="http://domain.com/media/browse/C20">http://domain.com/media/browse/C20</a>
{/exp:channel:categories}

As long “Use Category URL Titles In Links?” if turned off it will use the category id’s in the URL. (Cxx)

Greetz,
Wouter

Working fabulous! Thanks for the tip, I don’t know how I missed that tag.

Glad you are up and running again.Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.