New "Subcategories" plugin available.

Hi,

I am using this plugin to display my subcatogries.

I would like to do the following:

When there are no subcategories in the root_node, there need to be the text “empty”

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="{embed:weblog}" parent_only="yes" style="linear" show="not 15"}
{exp:subcategories root_node="{category_id}"}
{if subcategories_count < 1}empty{/if}
{/exp:subcategories}
{/exp:weblog:categories}

Now it displays empty at the categories that have subcategories. The categories without subcategories displays nothing.

Can someone help me?

@Richard Frank

Do you mean that the url isn’t getting the category_name added to the end?

You could add it to the url manually.

Like this…

{exp:subcategories root_node="16"}
    <li><a href="http://{path=dialogue/events/{category_name}}">{category_name}</a></li>
    {/exp:subcategories}

See if that works?

thanks, I went with another solution, but that does look like it would work fine…

Has this thing ever been updated? My subcategories plugin reads “Copyright 2005”, and is version ‘Beta 2’. Now that 1.6 has the category_url_title field (among other new fields), I’d love to be able to pull that in as well.

Ryan, MF hasn’t been around since the end of August. You might try contacting him directly.

Thanks, Sue. I modified my version to pull in that new field - but I ended up going another direction entirely based on a suggestion I saw Boyink post elsewhere about just using a relationship to work as a “bucket” rather then using (sub)categories.

EE is almost too flexible sometimes! 😛

So are you going to release your version? 😊

Please release the new version, it sounds like it is exactly what I am after.

Thanks 😊

Well, I found this thread, and went ahead and made the change for a ‘category_url_title’ field. I modified the Beta version # and the documentation.

Unfortunately, I am going to need to remove that attachment. The plugin is under Copyright, which means you’ll need MF’s permission to modify and distribute those changes. I highly recommend contacting him.

Sorry, I only posted because Sue was asking ‘mdesign’ to release his version, and didn’t mention this fact.

Well, you could post instructions for making that change; but not the actual file. =)

I knew I couldn’t post my modified file - because I’ve been caught by Lisa once before and I learned my lesson! Take note RipeMedia, that you can’t modify files and redistribute like that - unless you ask permission from the author. The best way to get something updated is to make the mods, tell the creator/author what you did, and have them update the “official” release. That way there aren’t a zillion slightly different modifications out there and things stay nice and tidy for everyone.

That said, here’s all one has to do to modify the existing subcategories plugin to add category_url_title:

Add “cat_url_title” to the sql around line 291.

$sql = "SELECT cat_id, cat_name, cat_url_title, cat_description, cat_image, cat_order
FROM exp_categories
WHERE exp_categories.parent_id = '".$DB->escape_str($this->get_root_node())."' ";

Add the following to the “parse single variables” area around line 358.

//parse category_url_title variable
if ($key == 'category_url_title')
{
  if (isset($row['cat_url_title']))
  {
   $tagdata = $TMPL->swap_var_single($val, $row['cat_url_title'], $tagdata);
   //$tagdata = str_replace("/", "/", $tagdata);
  }
}

It’s been a few days since I did that, so I might have forgotten something, but I think that’s it.

I knew I couldn’t post my modified file - because I’ve been caught by Lisa once before and I learned my lesson! Take note RipeMedia, that you can’t modify files and redistribute like that - unless you ask permission from the author.

You know I wuvya, Ryan.

That said - it’s not an all-out rule; it depends on the license. If the top of that pretty file says “GPL” or another such license, then you can modify/redistribute it under those terms. But if it says “Copyright” - then you must respect that, too.

Just wanted to clarify; I did check MF’s file before I removed the attachment. =)