Categories

[Panda]

Hello everybody. I've been working on customizing my site and I have a general support question. How many categories can we create in PHPDirector? Is it unlimited? Also is there a way to arrange the categories in alphabetical order when clicking on the categories link? And last, if categories are unlimited, is there a certain number shown and is there a next link below them? Thanks much!

[FireDart]

There our unlimited categories
Link is already supplied per category
Find this code in categories.php on line 30:

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$query_files = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM pp_files WHERE category = $cat_id AND approved = '1'");replace with:

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$query_files = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM pp_files WHERE category = $cat_id AND approved = '1' ORDER BY ASC");

I believe that should fix it.

[Panda]

I have another question. The max number of categories displayed is 6 according to the code in categories.tpl:
{section name=i loop=$cat step=4 max=6}
I have an ever growing amount of categories and don't want to just simply show all of them on one page, so how can I produce a "next page" link that shows another 6, etc., until the user goes through all categories. Thanks so much! 

[FireDart]

I believe simply adding this in categories.php will work:

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<!--Page Tab-->
{* display pagination info *}
<p align="center">
&nbsp;&nbsp;{paginate_prev}&nbsp;&nbsp;{paginate_next}
<br />
{paginate_middle page_limit="20"}
</p>

As the index.php file already has the pagination info.

[Panda]

I placed it in different areas in categories.php and even tried it in categories.tpl and each time it gives me a Smarty Paginate error. I can't seem to get it to work. 

[FireDart]

Sorry place:

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<!--Page Tab-->
{* display pagination info *}
<p align="center">
&nbsp;&nbsp;{paginate_prev}&nbsp;&nbsp;{paginate_next}
<br />
{paginate_middle page_limit="20"}
</p>

in the categories.tpl

and put this in the categories.php:

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    // assign {$paginate} var
    SmartyPaginate::assign($smarty);
if (isset($_GET["pt"])){
SmartyPaginate::setUrl('index.php?pt='.$_GET["pt"]);
}elseif(isset($_GET["cat"])){
SmartyPaginate::setUrl('index.php?cat='.$_GET["cat"]);
}else{

}

before:

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$smarty->assign('cat', $result);
$smarty->display('category.tpl');


mysql_close($mysql_link);
?>

See if that works.

[Panda]

Thanks. But it didn't work. I get this:

Warning: Division by zero in /home/videos/public_html/libs/SmartyPaginate.class.php on line 241
Warning: Division by zero in /home/videos/public_html/libs/SmartyPaginate.class.php on line 242

And:

Warning: Smarty error: paginate_middle: total was not set in /home/videos/public_html/libs/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

I tried it in different spots again to see if it would help but it made things worse. Hmmm. I'm stumped.

[ultrafoxus]

  very good information