Display Latest Post by categories?

hgtonight

Since you are using Basic Pages and a custom theme, put the following in your theme hooks file:

public function PageController_Render_Before($Sender) {
  $Module = new LatestPostListModule();
  $Module->SetData(5, 'categories/1', 1);
  $Sender->AddModule($Module, 'Cat1');

  $Module = new LatestPostListModule();
  $Module->SetData(5, 'categories/2', 2);
  $Sender->AddModule($Module, 'Cat2');

  $Module = new LatestPostListModule();
  $Module->SetData();
  $Sender->AddModule($Module, 'Latest');
}

And replace the SetData() method in /plugins/LatestPostList/modules/class.latestpostlistmodule.php with:

public function SetData($Limit = 5, $Link = 'discussions', $CategoryID = NULL) {
  $Wheres = (!is_null($CategoryID) && is_numeric($CategoryID)) ? array('CategoryID' => $CategoryID) : '';
  $DiscussionModel = new DiscussionModel();
  $this->_LatestPosts = $DiscussionModel->Get(0, $Limit, $Wheres);
  $this->_Link = $Link;
}

alanLeyva

Thank you very much @hgtonight !

That was it.

Maybe considering put that feature onto the default plugin wold be nice.

Thank you once again.

alanLeyva

Sorry to bother you once again.

How can I target to the ParentCategoryID?

I tried with this

Changing $CategoryID to $ParentCategoryID.
But that did't work

Hope you can help.

hgtonight

Just pass in the parent category ID in your theme hooks file.

alanLeyva

it didn't work
I guess is because we don't have any discussion in the parent category itself.

I try making an array of the subcategories of the same parent category.
But that did't work either.

Is there a we to target the parent category id instead of just every single category?

My DB looks like this

lets say I need to target to the number 8 parent ID

hgtonight

Oh, you want to display posts from a specific category AND it's sub-categories.

Do your parent categories only acting as headings, or can you post in them as well?

businessdad

@hgtonight said:
Oh, you want to display posts from a specific category AND it's sub-categories.

That can be done easily. See my previous answer about navigating the category tree.

hgtonight

This is definitely beyond the scope of my plugin, but you just need to to modify the LatestPostListModule::SetData() method to do what you want.

jamesmercury

@alanLeyva said:
The plugin is "Basic Pages" (an application actually)
I just overwrite the index.php file for a custom index.tpl file, the .tpl was so I can put the "asset"s to print the categories latest post.

@alanLeyva can you elaborate more on how you used the "Basic Pages" application to bring about your desired result? Where is the location of the index.php file you overwrote?