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Category Viewing thought.

peregrineperegrine MVP
edited January 2014 in Feedback

I haven't experimented with this. but was wondering about easy fixes, or possible thoughts on implementation of it.

lets say you have

All Discussions   

Category A    
    category 1    
    category 2   

Category B    
      category 3    
      category 4    

All Discussions - shows all discussions in all categories

Does vanilla have the ability through current plugins or functionality to allow something similar with Categories and sub-categories.

to click on Category A and see all discussions related to category 1 and category 2

to click on Category 1 and see all discussions related to category 1

to click on Category 2 and see all discussions related to category 2

to click on Category B and see all discussions related to category 3 and category 4

to click on Category 3 and see all discussions related to category 3

to click on Category 4 and see all discussions related to category 4

I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

Comments

  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited January 2014

    probably would require some major change to controller or model, I suspect.

    seems like it would be handy though.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • businessdadbusinessdad Stealth contributor MVP
    edited January 2014

    Correction: in my example, I wrote "Category ID: 15", while it should have been "Category ID: 5" (just below "Target category"). If any moderator can fix it, it would avoid confusion. Thanks. :)

  • whu606whu606 I'm not a SuperHero; I just like wearing tights... MVP

    @businessdad

    Done (I think...)

  • thanks for the input and insights @businessdad.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • LincLinc Detroit Admin

    I would strongly recommend doing this in PHP with the data from CategoryModel::Categories() or GetSubtree(). Doing it in MySQL isn't necessary and I suspect those queries will murder your db performance on large sites. The methods I referenced will use the cache if available.

  • your insights are always valuable @Lincoln , thx.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • hi everyone!

    I am a new vanilla user, and I want to achieve exactly whats asked in the first post -
    can anyone give a short tutorial on how to change the php files?

    Thank you so much! I am really lost for now...

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