Show Category by Custom Category Field

#1 / Jun 21, 2013 9:36am
futuristonline
43 posts
Hi
Small issue and not sure if EE can do this. I have an eCommerce shop and have a page which lists all the categories. I want to be able to create a category in a category group but have it hidden from the displayed list until it goes live.
```
{exp:channel:categories category_group="1"}
 <ul>
  <li><a href="http://{path=categories/index}">{category_image}</a></br><a href="http://{path=categories/index}">{category_name}</a></li>
 </ul>
{/exp:channel:categories}
```
So the above lists all the categories within the category group.

I have put a custom category field in of “category_status” and set this to drop down to live and not live. Can I not then just use:
```
{exp:channel:categories category_group="1" search:category_status="live" }
 <ul>
  <li><a href="http://{path=categories/index}">{category_image}</a></br><a href="http://{path=categories/index}">{category_name}</a></li>
 </ul>
{/exp:channel:categories}
```
...in order to filter these so only the “live” categories???

Thanks in advance.

Steve

#2 / Jun 23, 2013 11:35am

travisb

172 posts

I don’t think you’re going to get what you want from the channel:categories tag. I would use Stash add-on to have much more control, something like this:

First use the channel:entries tag and categories tag pair with a conditional to only output category info where you have set the custom field to “live”. The outer stash:set:list caches that output into a variable array.

{!--  Set the variable list --}

{exp:stash:set_list 
 name="live_cats" 
 parse_tags="yes" 
 output="no"
}
 {exp:channel:entries
  channel="the_channel_name"
  status="not closed"
  dynamic="no"
 }
  {categories category_group="1"}
   {if category_status == "live"}
    {stash:cstatus}{category_status}{/stash:cstatus}
    {stash:cname}{category_name}{/stash:cname}
    etc….
    
   {/if}
  {/categories}
 {/exp:channel:entries}
{/exp:stash:set_list}

Then output the variables in a list when you are ready using stash:get_list

{!-- Output the variables --}

{exp:stash:get_list 
 name="live_cats" 
 unique="yes"
 match="#^live$#"
 against="cstatus"
}
 <li>{cstatus},  {cname},  + any other variables however you need to format them…</li>
{/exp:stash:get_list}

#3 / Jun 24, 2013 4:03am

futuristonline
43 posts

Thanks for that. I’ll have a look at Stash and try it on the test server for the site and see what results I get.

Again, thanks.

Steve

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