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toad78
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:15 pm 
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Is there a way to post a Category Description to a Section Blog? It seems like an oddball request, but I've come across a section blog set up that requires a date to be posted on all Blogs that fall under a specific category. So all of these blog titles are listed in a Section blog, but there's this specific category that needs a description to be displayed and Joomla 1.5, out of the box, doesn't have the ability to show the Category Description with a Menu Item using a Section Blog layout.

Any ideas or hacks?
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Harvey51
PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:35 pm 
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This code placed in your templates index.php file allows you to set manual description and keywords based on the menu id

Code:
<?php
$currentMenuId = JSite::getMenu()->getActive()->id ;
if($currentMenuId == '116') // 116 is the ID number of the menu pointing to the component
{
$this->setMetaData( 'description', 'my description' );
$this->setMetaData( 'keywords', 'my keyword' );
}
else
{
// do nothing
}
?>


Just change 116 to the required menu id.

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toad78
PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:50 pm 
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Harvey51 wrote:
This code placed in your templates index.php file allows you to set manual description and keywords based on the menu id

Code:
<?php
$currentMenuId = JSite::getMenu()->getActive()->id ;
if($currentMenuId == '116') // 116 is the ID number of the menu pointing to the component
{
$this->setMetaData( 'description', 'my description' );
$this->setMetaData( 'keywords', 'my keyword' );
}
else
{
// do nothing
}
?>


Just change 116 to the required menu id.


You mention my template index.php, but it doesn't show that. R U referring to the Section Blog layout template file? or something different?
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Harvey51
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:17 am 
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No, you need to add it to your template's index.php file. Inside the head but outside of any existing php tags.

i.e after - ?>

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toad78
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:26 pm 
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Thank you for the clarification, Harvey51:

I guess it's not working in the way I want it to because the category description is not displaying in the Section Blog with the appropriate Menu ID.

To give a visual: Menu Item link is Section>Blog

Section Heading

Category Heading
Category description

Articles associated with category listed

This is what I would like to display.
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Harvey51
PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 9:21 am 
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Just to clarify, when you say category description are you talking about text that you can see on the page, or a meta description?

I thought you meant meta description, but looking back you probably mean visible text.

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toad78
PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 9:30 pm 
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I was talking about the Category Description and not the Meta Description. :)
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