I'd like to show the name of a category on top of a page with those posts.

Sound like the perfect scenario for an Intro (post type Intro-Cat).

Type what you want it to say at the top of the page... assign the category... boom! You're done.

... almost. ;)

Just comment out the whole request_title() section from your posts.main.php after you make an Intro for every category if you don't like the - Category: Name thing showing up.

Don't know if it will cause problems anywhere else, but it works for me with no bad side effects.

EDIT: Might not be the best solution, as it doesn't take into account Latest Comments or Archives titles.

Yep.. there are hell lot of parameters but not one for category text afai see..

#
function request_title( $params = array() )
#
{
#
global $MainList, $preview, $disp;
#

#
$r = array();
#

#
$params = array_merge( array(
#
'auto_pilot' => 'none',
#
'title_before' => '',
#
'title_after' => '',
#
'title_none' => '',
#
'title_single_disp' => true,
#
'title_single_before' => '#',
#
'title_single_after' => '#',
#
'title_page_disp' => true,
#
'title_page_before' => '#',
#
'title_page_after' => '#',
#
'glue' => ' - ',
#
'format' => 'htmlbody',
#
'arcdir_text' => T_('Archive Directory'),
#
'catdir_text' => T_('Category Directory'),
#
'mediaidx_text' => T_('Photo Index'),
#
'postidx_text' => T_('Post Index'),
#
'search_text' => T_('Search'),
#
'sitemap_text' => T_('Site Map'),
#
'msgform_text' => T_('Send an Email Message'),
#
'profile_text' => T_('User Profile'),
#
'user_text' => T_('User'),
#
'subs_text' => T_('Subscriptions'),
#
'comments_text' => T_('Latest Comments'),
#
'feedback-popup_text' => T_('Feedback'),
#
), $params );

no worries though, it's in the TODO.

Todo: make it complete with all possible params!

This is already possible. Add the following to your request_title function:

'category_text' 	  => '',

So mine looks like:

					request_title( array(
							'title_before'=> '<h2 class="requesttitle">',
							'title_after' => '</h2>',
							'title_none'  => '',
							'glue'        => ' - ',
							'title_single_disp' => false,
							'title_page_disp' => false,
							'format'      => 'htmlbody',
							'category_text' 	  => '',
						) );

L

i kind of remembered sth like that, but couldnt figure what it was , thank you lee.. wonder why it was not in doc. head

No worries, not sure about the docs. I'll add it when I have a mo. I tend to bypass the docs and go straight for the code so I didn't realise it wasn't there.

L

Thanks! Good to know about 'category_text'

One more question -- is there a way for request_title to show a top level category name without showing all of the sub categories? Thanks a lot.

webadmin wrote:

One more question -- is there a way for request_title to show a top level category name without showing all of the sub categories? Thanks a lot.

I couldn't think of an easy way to do that, however i agree with you in the necessity of that one.. If you have many sub-cats the title grows too long.

Will this work in index.main.php as well? I ask because I tried, and it didn't appear to.

http://www.comiclist.com/index.php/lists/ExtendedForecast/

Are you talking about in the page title ?

L

Yes, I want the page title to not be "Category-XXX". Just "XXX" would work fine.

Did you add the

'category_text'      => '', 

to the request_title in the header?

L

The: 'category_text' => '', addon only works when a category without any subcategories is selected.

Is there a way for a category with sub-categories to display only the current category name, without 'Categories:', or any of the subcategories?

I've checked the _template.funcs.php file, but I don't see where this is being pulled from.

I think it might be defined in the $Blog class, or in the variable $r, which is returned from $Blog->get('name'); function, I think.

I just want *this* category to display... Sounds simple enough. :-/

Figured it out.

Add: 'categories_text' => '',

i.e. my request looks like this:

request_title( array(
	'title_before'=> '<h2 style="font-size:1.6em">',
	'title_after' => '</h2>',
	'title_none'  => '',
	'glue'        => ' - ',
	'title_single_disp' => true,
	'format'      => 'htmlbody',
	'category_text' => '',
	'categories_text' => '',
) );

Then edit the following file: \inc\items\model\_itemlistlight.class.php

Change lines 947 - 953 from:

foreach( $this->filters['cat_array'] as $cat_ID )
{
	if( ($my_Chapter = & $ChapterCache->get_by_ID($cat_ID, false) ) !== false )
	{ // It is almost never meaningful to die over an invalid cat when generating title
		$cat_names[] = $my_Chapter->name;
	}
}

to:

$cat_ID = current( $this->filters['cat_array'] ); 
if( ($my_Chapter = & $ChapterCache->get_by_ID($cat_ID, false) ) !== false )
{ // It is almost never meaningful to die over an invalid cat when generating title
	$cat_names[] = $my_Chapter->name;
}

This makes the function only return the first category, which will always be the top category.

I've tested this solution on my site, and it works unconditionally so far.