Show some other [Custom] variable then hits in category view

shehbazbashir · **Joined:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:57 am **Posts:** 7

Hi,
I do not want to show the number of hits and author in list view of my category. Instead I want to show a custom attribute "URL" I have added to the articles.

Can someone tell me how I can change the category list view to show my new field?
Thanks.

jnodwell · **Joined:** Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:51 am **Posts:** 1175

You'll want to do that in /templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/category/blog_links.php.

shehbazbashir · **Joined:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:57 am **Posts:** 7

jnodwell,

I have done that but the problem I am facing is my custom attribute is not present in the params collection.

Let me elaborate a little bit of my problem. I have added a custom field in the articles. It is working fine there. Now I want to display my custom field instead of hits when category is clicked. I know, I have to edit default_item.php present in (components\com_content\views\category\tmpl) as I am using list mode. For blog you have to edit blog_links.php.

I am not able to get my custom field from the params collection and I am not able to find a way how to add this in params.Thanks

jnodwell · **Joined:** Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:51 am **Posts:** 1175

How did you add your custom attribute URL field to the articles?

You put the new attribute in /components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/default.xml?

Then you should be able to access its value with $this->params->get('your_variable_name') inside the default_items.php file?

shehbazbashir · **Joined:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:57 am **Posts:** 7

I followed the following process to do that.

1-changed joomla database in "jos_content".

Code:

ALTER TABLE `jos_content` ADD `url` MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL

2- In /administrator/components/com_content/admin.content.html.php

Code:

<td><label for="url"><?php echo JText::_( 'url' ); ?></label></td><td><input class="inputbox" type="text" name="url" id="url" size="40" maxlength="255" value="<?php echo $row->url; ?>" /></td>"

3-In /libraries/joomla/database/table/content.php

Code:

var $url = null;

4-In /administrator/components/com_content/controller.php

Code:

$row->url= $item->url;

5-In components/com_content/views/article/tmpl/default.php

Code:

<?php echo $this->escape($this->article->url); ?>

jnodwell · **Joined:** Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:51 am **Posts:** 1175

Well, I'm testing this out on a dev box here, and so far what I've been able to do is use the extra jos_content column in the editor but not in the category list.

1. jos_content .. add column url
2. libraries\joomla\database\table\content.php ... add var $url=null; to class def.
3. administrator\components\com_content\models\article.xml .. add parameter to input custom url var called 'url' of textarea type near author alias param
4. administrator\components\com_content\controller.php .. add $form->set('url', $row->url; (around line 559)

at this point the custom field is saving in the db and showing up in the article editor but $item->url is not available in default_items.php in template yet though

I'll keep fiddling with it.

I'm sure there is a better way to do this without hacking all these core files, though.

shehbazbashir · **Joined:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:57 am **Posts:** 7

That will be great. Thanks.

jnodwell · **Joined:** Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:51 am **Posts:** 1175

jnodwell wrote:

Well, I'm testing this out on a dev box here, and so far what I've been able to do is use the extra jos_content column in the editor but not in the category list.

1. jos_content .. add column url
2. libraries\joomla\database\table\content.php ... add var $url=null; to class def.
3. administrator\components\com_content\models\article.xml .. add parameter to input custom url var called 'url' of textarea type near author alias param
4. administrator\components\com_content\controller.php .. add $form->set('url', $row->url; (around line 559)

at this point the custom field is saving in the db and showing up in the article editor but $item->url is not available in default_items.php in template yet though

I'll keep fiddling with it.

I'm sure there is a better way to do this without hacking all these core files, though.

Keeping steps 1-4, what you can do at this point is use $item->slug to get the article id and then do a db lookup on jos_content for your url column on that article id. Not pretty, but would do what you want.

shehbazbashir · **Joined:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:57 am **Posts:** 7

Surely it will do the job.... Thanks for helping.

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