posts.php custom per category

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posts.php custom per category

elegos

Hello!

For my purposes I'd like to have a "special" posts.php page per a single category (I've got 3). While I know I can do something like page-custompage.php, I don't know if I can do posts-customcategory.php.

Is it possible? Or should I somehow guess the category in posts.php (if any) and in case write a monolithic posts.php?

Thanks.

[deleted]

Hey there, how did you get around doing this? I want to have my photography category to styled differently.

ilkutterzioglu.com

elegos

Haven't resolved yet :S

kieron

I'll post over the weekend how to do this for you guys.

elegos

Thank you kieron :)

tealeaf

Thanks a lot kieron! This is exactly what I need to do. :)

mazzo

Create in your themes folder a file nameed "page-x.php" x = the name of your extra page.

E.g.: you want to have a page with the posts of the category "running", "football" and "baseball".

The name of the page is "Sport" Create the file page-sport.php

and copy the code from here:

http://snipet.co.uk/qG

allowCat contains all catergory ID that you want on your page, you can also take it from a site_variable.

$allowCat = array(1,2,6); 1= running 2= football 6= baseball

Now you only need the code above and include the header and footer tags.

Cozmoz

mazzo How would I go about implementing the pagination on this example?

elegos

that's hacky (you need to edit the PHP page every time you add or edit a category).
that would mean creating void posts and treating them as "hardpoints" for categories. In this way you'll always have /post/ and not /category/ in the URL. So what's the point of having categories at all?

jpkaat

Yea. I agree that is a hacky way to deal with it. Notice this anchorcms forum has all it's posts' urls under categories, apparently - see this particular forum post's url: "forums.anchorcms.com/themes/posts-php-custom-per-category"; with "/themes/" being the category presumably.

I posted a question about this just a bit ago under here:

http://forums.anchorcms.com/help/roar-cms-anchor-forum-cms#post-6625

Cozmoz

I have customised this myself:

function custom_posts_page($page = 1, $perpage = 12, $category_id = 5) {
  // only run on the first call
  if( ! Registry::has('post_archive')) {
    // capture original article if one is set
    if($article = Registry::get('article')) {
      Registry::set('original_article', $article);
    }
  }

  if( ! $posts = Registry::get('post_archive')) {
    $posts = Post::where('category', '!=', $category_id)->where(Base::table('posts.status'), '=', 'published')->sort('created', 'desc')->take($perpage)->skip(($page - 1) * $perpage)->get();

    Registry::set('post_archive', $posts = new Items($posts));
  }

  if($result = $posts->valid()) {
    // register single post
    Registry::set('article', $posts->current());

    // move to next
    $posts->next();
  } else {
    // back to the start
    $posts->rewind();

    // reset original article
    Registry::set('article', Registry::get('original_article'));

    // remove items
    Registry::set('post_archive', false);
  }

  return $result;
}

Cozmoz

I am having a problem with the script I wrote as I am unable to pull through the author name. I have started to write a script to pull through the author name but it seems to brake the page. Any help would be appreciated.

function custom_article_author($category_id = null) {
  $posts = Post::left_join(Base::table('users'), Base::table('users.id'), '=', Base::table('posts.author'))
  ->where(Base::table('posts.category'), '!=', $category_id)
  ->where(Base::table('posts.status'), '=', 'published')
  ->sort(Base::table('posts.created'), 'desc')
  //->get();
  ->get(Base::table('users.real_name as author_name'));

  Registry::set('post_archive', $posts = new Items($posts));
  
  //$result = $posts['array:items:private'][0];
  $result = print_r(array($posts));
  
  return $result;
    
}

Cozmoz

I have fixed this as follows:

  if( ! $posts = Registry::get('post_archive')) {
    $posts = Post::left_join(Base::table('users'), Base::table('users.id'), '=', Base::table('posts.author'))
    ->left_join(Base::table('post_meta'), Base::table('post_meta.id'), '=', Base::table('posts.id'))
    ->where(Base::table('posts.category'), '!=', $category_id)
    ->where(Base::table('posts.status'), '=', 'published')
    ->sort('created', 'desc')
    ->take($perpage)->skip(($page - 1) * $perpage)
    ->get(array(Base::table('posts.*'),
                Base::table('users.id as author_id'),
                Base::table('users.bio as author_bio'),
                Base::table('users.real_name as author_name')));
 
    Registry::set('post_archive', $posts = new Items($posts));
  }

tovic

By the way, you could simply add current category slug to the HTML element as a class then style your post appearance based on that class:

<html class="category-<?php echo article_category(); ?>">

html.category-your-category-slug article {
  background: pink;
  font-size: 120%;
}