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Carol · Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 5 Location: Sydney

Ok, I'll just start off by telling you that I'm not very familiar with php and have just started using b2.

Is it possible to use b2 for more than the 'blog' section of the site? I'm trying to see if I can have different categories on different pages, so that I can use b2 when I want to update other sections of the site.

I want 2 categories for the 'blog' section and wants to show several entries on one page.

I want a separate category for each of the other sections, and for them to display one entry at a time.

Can I do that?

Toxicity555 · Joined: 09 Feb 2002 Posts: 50 Location: USA

Definately. On my site I use b2 to manage my entire site. What I have done is syndicated updates into RSS so that they show up on my home page. From there, I have linked to the b2.php file and told it to display only certain categories. When i post a story, I use the  function to add a teaser to the top of the story, which automatically links to the entire story. It works great. Hope this helps!

Carol · Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 5 Location: Sydney

Yea, I sort of get what you mean. Can I have different layouts for each section?

And how do I do what you just said? I'm sorry but it's like staring into empty space when I look at the codes.

michel v · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2002 2:17 pm Post subject:

Yes, you can have different layouts for different sections. Just create different templates: copy index.php or b2.php into a new file, and edit that new file, and you have a different template. Smile

Junior · Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 6

Guys I'm real new to this b2 and amd strugglingto pick up Php along the way .. I want to have a number of seperate categories [news/events/reports/etc] but was wondering how to I config b2 so that users post to individual pages ?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Junior

Junior · Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 6

Ok I've looked thru the How-To Section on this board and I've tried the suggested solution in a number of other threads.

It doesn't work for me, B2 is running at http://www.cruiseirl.com/news/ I added the $cat=cat number code to the head of http://www.cruiseirl.com/news/events.php but it seems to take in all the postings.

Could some one please point me in the right direction

TIA

Junior

Toxicity555 · Joined: 09 Feb 2002 Posts: 50 Location: USA

Can you post the first few lines of the code? That should help find the problem...

Junior · Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 6

Here's the start of the events page

Toxicity555 · Joined: 09 Feb 2002 Posts: 50 Location: USA

<?php /* Don't remove this line, it calls the b2 function files ! */ $blog=1; $cat=2; include ("blog.header.php"); ?> Try moving the $cat statement after the blog statement, might help. I just tested it out again and it seems to still be working fine.

imeridian · Joined: 12 Feb 2002 Posts: 191

<?php $cat = "-7+6"; ?>

is a way to "block" categories 6 and 7.

<?php $cat = "1 2 3"; ?>

will show only categories 1, 2, and 3.

Junior · Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 6

Cheers people for all your help I'm indebted to you all for figuring that simple thing out for me !

Cheers again

Junior

|DarkNoise| · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 1

k well we know now we can have various categories on each page, but what about having 2 categories in seperate parts of the page, eg a different category in a different cell of a table...

ive been trying to figure this out for days. say we state that $cat=1 then query the db can we change or clear and restate $cat=2 and re-query the db?