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Hello,

Is the following supposed to work ?

Global variable called default_cat_id set to 5

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" dynamic="no" year="2012" category="{default_cat_id}" orderby="date" sort="desc" }
<h1>{title}</h1>
{/exp:channel:entries}

When I do it without a variable it works :

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" dynamic="no" year="2012" category="5" orderby="date" sort="desc" }
<h1>{title}</h1>
{/exp:channel:entries}

When I print :

<h1>Category id is : {default_cat_id}</h1>

I get :

<h1>Category id is : 5</h1>

Do you have any suggestions about how I could get this to work ?

Thanks 😊

Global variable will not work for EE tags, try to use snippets

The problem here is that I need to get the category URL, transform it to a category ID and specify the category ID to only show the entries of that category.

I use a plugin (swanify) to get the category ID :

{exp:swanify_category:get category_url=”{segment_1}”}

I rearly need to be able to limit the entries to the ones in the category that’s in the URL.

The following does not work :

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" dynamic="no" year="2012" category="{exp:swanify_category:get category_url=”{segment_1}”}" orderby="date" sort="desc" }
<h1>{title}</h1>
{/exp:channel:entries}

My customer want’s to be able to create a new news entry (with en english title, an optional french title, an optional spanish title), and select which languages it will appear in by ticking the corresponding categories. The langauge being in the URL (/en, /fr, /es …) and the categories being the same as the languages (‘en’, ‘fr’, ‘es’…).

Thanks

this is simple , first try to change

{exp:swanify_category:get category_url=”{segment_1}”}

to

{exp:swanify_category:get category_url="{segment_1}"}

I notice u use ” not “

if this not resolve u problem , you can use embeded varaibale and pass the cat_id from the main template like this:

{embed="include/.news_list" cat_id='{exp:swanify_category:get category_url="{segment_1}"}'}

then in the news list template change the code to :

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" dynamic="no" year="2012" category="{embed:cat_id}" orderby="date" sort="desc" }
<h1>{title}</h1>
{/exp:channel:entries}

I notice u use ” not “’

I think it was my browser’s spell check or EE forums parser that replaced the code, the code was correct in my EE templates.

The embed variable worked for the year {year} but not for the category…

In the template :
{embed="embed/.news_list" cat_id="1" year='2012'} 


In the embed :
{exp:channel:entries channel="news" dynamic="no" year="{year}" category="{cat_id}" orderby="date" sort="desc" }

=> doesn’t work

In the template :
{embed="embed/.news_list" cat_id="1" year='2012'} 

In the embed :
{exp:channel:entries channel="news" dynamic="no" year="{year}" category="5" orderby="date" sort="desc" }

=> works

u use the emebed var in the wrong way you must use it like this {embed:cat_id} not {cat_id}

oops !

That worked, thanks 😊

I shame I have to use an embed to bypass this problem but at least it does the job !

Hey Monarobase,

Awesome! I am glad that Ahmad was able to help you out here. The embed variable is an awesome tool, I use it very often.

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,