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sabotage · Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 36

omg!
excellent piece of code macshack =)

*edit
i'm having the same problem as Celia, extended posts in $cat="2" (in example) won't show when you click them....the entire post won't, it's all just a blank page.
plus i can't post comments either on posts in cat=2....

in other words, posts show up everywhere like they are supposed to, but when a category is NOT equal to cat=1 it won't comment or extend posts...

and i can't find the friggin' problem, been looking for several hours already =\
could someone take another look? www.noxious.org is my b2 blog, the To-Do List is category 2, which won't work...

btw, b2 is installed in a separate b2 folder (e.g. www.noxious.org/b2) but the index.php is in the root dir. everything else works fine though, when i don't put the piece of code macshack made in the index.php page it's all working, except for the fact that then all posts show up on the main page )

thanks in advance

sabotage · Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 36

ok..... i'm trying to narrow it down to see what the actual problem is, but i'm not getting any further...

it seems that when i use macshack's code, the posts won't show either if i use

sabotage · Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 36

*bump*.... anyone?

*edit:

alright.... i've found out that i CAN view posts if i put the category in the url ( i.e. www.noxious.org/index.php?p=7&cat=2 )

wester3 · Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 4

thanks! i love b2, and this sounds like a great extra feature i'd like

but i'm having a couple of problems with it, similar to those above, see http://www.tidakada.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=17608#17608

thanks

macshack · Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 1204 Location: Phoenix, Az

Hi,

I got a PM message from sabotage on this issue and I'll see what I can do. But first I think I need to take a moment and review this thread a bit to "refresh" the ole brain....

In the mean time, would one of you describe what it is that your trying to accomplish?

I'll go read now.
Michael e

sabotage · Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 36

thanks macshack, i'll try to explain what i was hoping for...

i'm trying to get my index page to show posts from category 1 only when you visit the main site. the other categories still exist, and can still be seen, but those other posts shouldn't be on the 'main' page, but only viewable if you click and go to that specific category.

now, when i put $cat=1 after the $blog statement, i had the same problem as vermifuge, which is that no matter what category i clicked in the menu, it only showed the posts from category 1.
that's when your code came in handy, it fixed the problem, made only category 1 posts appear on the main page, and the rest wasstill accessible.

however, i (and celia before me) stumbled upon the problem that now, when i click the comments link, or add a  tag and click it, the post itself won't show, and neither will the comments or the 'more' part. (for the other categories that is, category 1 still works perfectly).

you can check it out on www.noxious.org , only category General is showing on the main page now, try to click one of the posts in the To-Do List category, and you'll see the problem i'm having with the comments/posts/more feature.

many thanks in advance, i hope it can be worked out....

sabotage

macshack · Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 1204 Location: Phoenix, Az

Hi,

The referenced code worked most of the time (and I guess as expected for a number of users.) And it also contained the checks to test if the "cat" query was in the url/post and set $cat accordingly. This works fine until other things are included in the url that should not be category "filtered" as in the "comments" case.

What the following code does is set the $cat variable only if there is not a "GET" or "POST" query being passed. Thus in the cases where a comment is being made for a specific post number then the $cat variable is not set and is left to the blog.header.php code to set it if it needs too.

So this should do the above:

sabotage · Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 36

macshack....

i love you....

szac · Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1

Hello, this seems like a great addition to my b2blog, but i am getting a parse error when I try to add the hack. Here's what I got:

sabotage · Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 36

szac, could you post the parse error you get?
since i don't see any errors in the code above, so it must be something else.

anyway, i stumbled upon a new issue with this thing, which is that now the main page not only shows the last 5 posts, but it shows ALL posts as if i was looking at an archive. it shows all the posts in the category.... how can i fix it so it'll only show the last 5 posts again...?

cheers,

sabotage (back from holiday )

sabotage · Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 36

heh, dead thread probably but i'll try again, i still haven't been able to figure out why the post limiting thing won't work with this piece of code.

anyone have any bright ideas?

karidee · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 6

karidee · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 6