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hey there. I'm trying to write a block for the content module that displays the pages in the catagory of the page that you are currently viewing. Make sense?

Basically I need to write a function for a content page to deliver it's catagory id. Any advice on how to do this?

Originally posted by jroe @ Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:26 pm:

hey there. I'm trying to write a block for the content module that displays the pages in the catagory of the page that you are currently viewing. Make sense?

Basically I need to write a function for a content page to deliver it's catagory id. Any advice on how to do this?

How do you mean? Do u mean when a viewer of your site clicks on a link, all the catagories appear below that link?
or
do you mean somethig else?

Milne

i don't mean a drop down or anything like that. I mean something like this:

I have catagory A, B, and C

A contains pages 1, 2, 3
B contains pages 4, 5, 6
C contains pages 7, 8, 9

right now I have a block that reads on every content page like this:

A
1
2
3
B
4
5
6
C
7
8
9

But I want the block to detect which catagory it is currently showing and only display the current catagory links.

for example

Let's say the viewer is on page 6. I want the block to read

B
4
5
6

or

A
B
4
5
6
C

and if viewer is on page 8. I want the block to read

C
7
8
9

or

A
B
C
7
8
9

Make sense? The trick is getting the catagory id value on a given page....

if the categroy id is in the URL then you can use _GET to retrieve it.

$catid = $_GET['catid'];

didn't seem to work. I'm already using $cid, don't know if they conflict, but along the lines of what you suggested, this is something like what it should be like:

$catid = $_GET['catid'];

if ($cid == $catid) {
$sql2 = "SELECT pid, title FROM ".$prefix."_pages WHERE active='1' AND cid='$cid' ORDER BY title";
$result2 = $db->sql_query($sql2);
while ($row2 = $db->sql_fetchrow($result2)) {
$pid = intval($row2['pid']);
$title = stripslashes(check_html($row2['title'], "nohtml"));
$boxstuff .= "<blockquote><strong><big>�</big></strong> <a href=\"content.html&pa=showpage&pid=$pid\">$title</a></blockquote>";

}
}