Category Icons / Images

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:19 am

Hi!

The pictures come up here properly?!

You can display the images by configuring the categories plugin and setting the XML image to no.

Regards,
Garvin

NimNim · Post by **NimNim** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:05 pm

Oh of course .. I keep forgetting to check in the admin to see if I can do things.

My hoster seems to be down today though, so will have to wait to see if I succeed.

Cheers

Nim

p.s
Yes, I'd linked the icons to the wrong places lol, so they do work now.

NimNim · Post by **NimNim** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:37 pm

Erm .. well it took away the annoying xml.gif image ... but it also took away my own images

Nim

NimNim · Post by **NimNim** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:38 pm

And in restoring it .. I've lost my own images completely

Scuse me a sec ..... Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhh!!!!!

Better now.

Nim

NimNim · Post by **NimNim** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:40 pm

How's this for an idea:

- I create a transparent gif that is one pixel by one pixel, save it as xml.gif, and ftp that up to replace the current stupid stinky xml.gif (

)

- Then I re-ftp my file up there that links to my category images. (My assumption is that it's been written over when I changed the settings).

Would that work?

Nim

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:19 am

Hi!

Uh, you can simply disable the xml category icon in the plugin's configuration, and then simply adapt the plugin_categories.tpl file so that your "custom image" code is NOT within the "IF {....}" check that only is executed when you have not disabled xml category icons.

Then your custom icons will still be shown, and xml images will be hidden.

(Your solution would work too, though)

Have fun,
Garvin

NimNim · Post by **NimNim** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:00 pm

Hi,

I know I'm being really useless and thick. I wasn't quite sure what you meant by:

"simply adapt the plugin_categories.tpl file so that your "custom image" code is NOT within the "IF {....}" check that only is executed when you have not disabled xml category icons."

No idea at all!!!!
1) How do I make sure the custom image code isn't within IF thingies???
2) Check what is only executed when blah blah .. don't understand that sentence .. sorry

Sooooo .. I tried my method .. which you thought would work. It didn't lol. Obviously, making the stupid xml image invisible worked ... but reuploading the file with the links to my images ... well, only one of my images has come up!!!!

I'm so confused. Would it just be quicker if I gave someone else my ftp information and they did it for me????

Nim

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:12 pm

Hi!

Try to use a plugin_categories.tpl like this:

Code: Select all

    <ul id="serendipity_categories_list" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px">
{foreach from=$categories item="plugin_category"}
        <li style="display: block;">
<!-- YOUR ICON HERE !!!! -->
    {if $plugin_category.category_name == 'Books'}
    <img src="/Serendipity/templates/competition/img/Books.gif" alt="Books" style="border: 0px" />
    {elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'CFS'}
    <img src="/Serendipity/templates/competition/img/CFS.gif" alt="CFS" style="border: 0px" />
    {elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'Depression'}
    <img src="/Serendipity/templates/competition/img/Depression.gif" alt="Depression" style="border: 0px" />
    {elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'Dreams'}
    <img src="/Serendipity/templates/competition/img/Dreams.gif" alt="Dreams" style="border: 0px" />
    {elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'General'}
    <img src="/Serendipity/templates/competition/img/General.gif" alt="General" style="border: 0px" />
    {elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'Pets'}
    <img src="/Serendipity/templates/competition/img/Pets.gif" alt="Pets" style="border: 0px" />
    {elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'Work'}
    <img src="/Serendipity/templates/competition/img/Work.gif" alt="Work" style="border: 0px" />
    {/if} 
<!-- END OF YOUR ICON CODE -->

            <a href="{$plugin_category.categoryURL}" title="{$plugin_category.category_description|escape}" style="padding-left: {$plugin_category.paddingPx}px">{$plugin_category.category_name|escape}</a>
        </li>
{/foreach}
    </ul>

    <div class="category_link_all"><a href="{$form_url}?frontpage" title="{$CONST.ALL_CATEGORIES}">{$CONST.ALL_CATEGORIES}</a></div>

If that works, try to spot the difference

Best regards,
Garvin

NimNim · Post by **NimNim** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:54 pm

I think I've killed it lol.

I could see quite a lot of differences between the two files.

However, in uploading it, the only difference it seems to have made is to get rid of the tick boxes

I guess I don't need them, but that wasn't the idea was it lol.

You're giving me so much help, and I'm still being useless ... I'm sorry.

Nim

NimNim · Post by **NimNim** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:56 pm

How come the icon for my mothers category keeps working whilst the others don't?

The only difference I can think of is that there are no entries for it.

Gimme a wall .. I need to bang my head against it!

Nim

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:49 am

Hi!

Well, but there are no XML images any more?!?! There's no code to show them, so there's no way you could see them anymore. That was the whole goal of it, right?

NimNim wrote:How come the icon for my mothers category keeps working whilst the others don't?

Maybe you check for the wrong category name? What's your code for the "other" categories inside the template file?

The only difference I can think of is that there are no entries for it.

You need to add a IF-statement for every single category icon, of course.

Best regards,
Garvin

NimNim · Post by **NimNim** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:01 pm

Yes they're gone! That's only half of the goal though; the other half is to have my own icons there.

I don't know what an IF statement is. The code I've used is below ... they all look the same to me ... so I don't understand why the Mother ones icon is showing.

{if $plugin_category.category_name == 'Books'}
<img src="http://www.sylviathornhill.co.uk/Serend ... /Books.gif" alt="Books" style="border: 0px" />
{elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'CFS'}
<img src="http://www.sylviathornhill.co.uk/Serend ... ds/CFS.gif" alt="CFS" style="border: 0px" />
{elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'Depression'}
<img src="http://www.sylviathornhill.co.uk/Serend ... ession.gif" alt="Depression" style="border: 0px" />
{elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'Dreams'}
<img src="http://www.sylviathornhill.co.uk/Serend ... Dreams.gif" alt="Dreams" style="border: 0px" />
{elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'General'}
<img src="http://www.sylviathornhill.co.uk/Serend ... eneral.gif" alt="General" style="border: 0px" />
{elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'Pets'}
<img src="http://www.sylviathornhill.co.uk/Serend ... s/Pets.gif" alt="Pets" style="border: 0px" />
{elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'Work'}
<img src="http://www.sylviathornhill.co.uk/Serend ... s/Work.gif" alt="Work" style="border: 0px" />
{elseif $plugin_category.category_name == 'Mother'}
<img src="http://www.sylviathornhill.co.uk/Serend ... Mother.gif" alt="Mother" style="border: 0px" />
{/if}

NimNim · Post by **NimNim** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:03 pm

Oooooh ... I hate to tell you this ... but having just added an entry to the category of Mother ... the icon in the category list for that category is now not working.

I've done something completely screwey somewhere haven't I!

Nim

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:07 pm

Hi!

You enabled the display of the count of entries per category. This will rename you category so you need to check not for "Mother" but for "Mother (1)".

Of course that means everytime you add a new article to a category you will need to edit your template file for the new proper check.

You could use smarty function to strip the (...) count in the variable, but that'S too hard for you (and for me as well, at least I don'T have time to do that for you).

So best owuld be for you to disable the display of the count.

Best regards,
Garvin

NimNim · Post by **NimNim** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:59 pm

Yay!!!!! That's all it was!! I have absolutely no idea why ... don't have a clue about anything PHP at all ... but that worked, and you're a genius.

I'll try and bribe my husband into donating to you this evening (coz I'm penniless).

Thank you so much for all of your help

Nim