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I’m trying to neaten up my url structure for categories

I’ve enabled category url titles in links

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/cp/admin/channels/global_channel_preferences.html#use-category-url-titles-in-links

which gives me a url structure looking like:
/cart/browse/category/cushion_pads

instead of
/cart/browse/C322

the side affect of doing this, is that i now cannot access category_heading or category_description.

any clue of how to sort that?

I am not sure if this helps.  I like to use the exp:query module for grabbing category information sometimes.  You can grab category headings with some code like this

{exp:query sql='SELECT cat_name, cat_description FROM exp_categories WHERE cat_url_title == {segment_3}'}
{cat_name} or {cat_description}
{/exp:query}

Hope this helps.  Best of luck.

One other idea, you could probably use this plug-in too, http://gotolow.com/addons/low-seg2cat

iammikek,

I would also suggest using seg2cat. It allows you to use functionality similar to category url titles without having to enable that feature. It also eliminates “category” from your URLs for extra neatness. That would allow you to still have all the features of category heading and such.

Cheers,

Thanks for your replies. I’d have hoped that this functionality had made it into the core by now. It seems bizarre that ee would allow you to set something in the admin which would break something else.

Anyway, 2 options to look at. Incidentally, i had looked at seg2cat on a 1.1 install but wrongly assumed i had to pay for it being a 3rd party module.

Hi iammikek,

If you have a URL such as http://www.example.com/index.php/options/category/category-two then this should work fine out of the box. You are having this problem though because you are not following the standard URL structure for using categories as you have an extra segment in your URL.

This means that you would indeed need to use a 3rd party add-on to get at what you need here.

Does that help at all?

Thanks,

Mark

Mark,

I’m seriously confused. I’m having this same problem, but I don’t understand how his example http://www.example.com/index.php/cart/browse/category/cushion_pads is not standard?

It follows the TEMPLATEGROUP/TEMPLATE/category/CATEGORY standard.

Are you saying that the category trigger can be used to show categories ONLY in the index template of a group?

Please advise.

You need to add that Channel name to the category_heading tag…

{exp:channel:category_heading channel="mychannelname"}
    <h1>{category_name}</h1>
    {if category_description}
        {category_description}
    {/if}
{/exp:channel:category_heading}

See http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/category_heading.html#channel

Hi Visiluna,

Although I’ll probably get frowned upon by some for saying this (I don’t really care truthfully though), apologies for my post above as I had slightly mis-read what was being done here.

Best wishes,

Mark

iammikek,

Did you have a chance to give seg2cat a look?

Visiluna,

Nope, you are not required to route categories through the index template. It all depends on either the “C” or category URL trigger being in the URL.

Cheers,