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EE2 question.  How do I identify the categories of a calendar entry (or potentially any entry)?

Specifically, I’m displaying a monthly calendar, and I want to both limit my display of entries to certain categories as well as class entries by category.

At this point I have this mess:

{if entries}
        <td class='{switch}' align='center' width="14%" >
            <a href="http://{day_path=/calendar/calendar_detail}">{day_number}</a>
            {entries}
                    {exp:channel:categories channel="Calendar" category_group="1" show="1|13|12|9|4|24" style="linear"}
                        <div class="cal_{category_id}"><a href="http://{title_permalink=/calendar/calendar_detail}">{title}</a></div>
                    {/exp:channel:categories} 
            {/entries}
        </td>
{/if}

Which does in fact limit the entries by category and class them, but 1) this seems like an awful lot of looping, and 2) this repeats each entry multiple times.  I’m sure there’s a better way…

Thanks!

How do I identify the categories of a calendar entry (or potentially any entry)?

For regular entries you have the {categories} tag.

Will this work for calendar entries?  I modified my code to:

{if entries}
        <td class='{switch}' align='center' width="14%" >
            <a href="http://{day_path=/newsevents/calendar_detail}">{day_number}</a>
            {entries}
            {categories category_group="1" show="1|13|12|9|4|24"}
                <div class="cal_{category_id}"><a href="http://{title_permalink=/newsevents/calendar_detail}">{title}</a></div>
            {/categories} 
            {/entries}
        </td>
{/if}

EE isn’t parsing {categories} at all; it’s spitting back the EE code, unparsed.

Thanks.

It doesn’t look like you can. NOTE: Solspace has a Calendar add-on, but I don’t know if it does what you want either..

Hey I really need this too - did you have any luck finding a solution? Seems a bit of an oversight not being able to find out what category an entry is in…

Hi CrescendoNZ,

Whether or not you use an addon like the one that Sue mentioned please do consider submitting a Feature Request if there is functionality that you feel is missing from EE.

@Mitch, what did you end up doing for this?

Cheers

Greg

Ok looks like its going to take some manual PHP then… Can’t use solspace calendar at this stage without creating even more extra work. Have given up submitting feature requests as they all seem to get ignored, or only implemented a year later. Thanks though

A custom query may be the best way to grab this information, or a plugin.  In any case, rather than close this I’m going to shift it down to the CodeShare Corner in case others have tackled this and have recommendations.

We do read the feature requests and those do impact the software; although they may take some time to be included.  I would encourage you to go ahead and post one if you’d like to see this in the future.

Thank you.

Yep I kinda hacked it together with

{exp:query sql="SELECT cat_id FROM exp_category_posts WHERE entry_id = '{entry_id}' "}

These days its quicker to make a module ourselves than worry about feature requests - EE is going to need to address the development pace at some stage or it will inevitably be outpaced by open source alternatives. I’d say thats equally if not more important than dealing with the support situation - anyway thats another story!