Exclude current article in Article categories module

[pieter-jan]

So i'm doing an overwrite on the mod article categories (for displaying a list of articles in a certain category), but i want to exclude the current article shown in com_content. Any thoughts on how to get this done?

[over]

This is more or less covered within the module. You can style the active article with CSS-class active.
(Or use $item->active to exclude the article wihin your override.)

See code
...
<a class="mod-articles-category-title <?php echo $item->active; ?>"
...

[pieter-jan]

Darn, that is actually a surprising simple solution, almost can't believe i didn't think of that. I simply added

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class="<?php echo $item->active; ?>" 

to the main li in the module in a override and

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.category-module li.active {
    display: none;
}

to the css. Thanks for the suggestion!

[pieter-jan]

Update: there is a downside to this.

I want to use the mod article categories to show 5 random items (and i rewritten it in such a way it shows intro-images and a button). So i set in the module the max items and random order. But now it gets messy: either max=5, it'll show 5 or 4 (cause when active item is among those 5 css will hide it), or max=6 and it'll show 5 (when active is among the items, but hidden) or 6, when active is not among the items shown. Get what i mean?

So i'll have to find another way to exclude, any thoughts?

what i got so far as override (don't mind the custom classes and still some stuff i dont need to remove)

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<?php 

$num_items = count($list); ?>
<div class="category-module<?php echo $moduleclass_sfx; ?>">
	
		<?php foreach ($list as $item) : ?>
			<div class="ao-item" style="width: <?php echo round(100 / ($num_items - 1)); ?>%;">
			<div class="alternatieven_overzicht <?php echo $item->active; ?>">
			<a href="<?php echo $item->link; ?>">
			
			<?php $images = json_decode($item->images); ?>
   			<div class="bekijkmask mask1"><img class="image_intro" src="<?php echo $images->image_intro; ?>" alt="<?php echo $images->image_intro_alt; ?>"/></div>
	
				<?php if ($item->displayHits) : ?>
					<span class="mod-articles-category-hits">
						(<?php echo $item->displayHits; ?>)
					</span>
				<?php endif; ?>
	
				<?php if ($params->get('show_author')) : ?>
					<span class="mod-articles-category-writtenby">
						<?php echo $item->displayAuthorName; ?>
					</span>
				<?php endif;?>
	
				<?php if ($item->displayCategoryTitle) : ?>
					<span class="mod-articles-category-category">
						(<?php echo $item->displayCategoryTitle; ?>)
					</span>
				<?php endif; ?>
	
				<?php if ($item->displayDate) : ?>
					<span class="mod-articles-category-date">
						<?php echo $item->displayDate; ?>
					</span>
				<?php endif; ?>
	
				<?php if ($params->get('show_introtext')) : ?>
					<p class="mod-articles-category-introtext">
						<?php echo $item->displayIntrotext; ?>
					</p>
				<?php endif; ?>
	
				<?php if ($params->get('show_readmore')) : ?>
					<p class="mod-articles-category-readmore button button-reverse">
						
							<?php if ($item->params->get('access-view') == false) : ?>
								<?php echo JText::_('MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_REGISTER_TO_READ_MORE'); ?>
							<?php elseif ($readmore = $item->alternative_readmore) : ?>
								<?php echo $readmore; ?>
								<?php echo JHtml::_('string.truncate', $item->title, $params->get('readmore_limit')); ?>
							<?php elseif ($params->get('show_readmore_title', 0) == 0) : ?>
								<?php echo JText::sprintf('Nu bekijken'); ?>
							<?php else : ?>
								<?php echo JText::_('MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_READ_MORE'); ?>
								<?php echo JHtml::_('string.truncate', $item->title, $params->get('readmore_limit')); ?>
							<?php endif; ?>
						
					</p>
				<?php endif; ?>
			</a>
			</div>
		</div>
	<?php endforeach; ?>
</div>

[pieter-jan]

answer was found in the helper.php, so instead of an override i turned the whole bunch in a custom module. There is already an $exclude in place (used to exclude specific items), solved it by adding the active item to that array

[pe7er]

You can use filters to exclude an article id.
I've added the following to exclude the current article from the "Articles - Newsflash" module:

In modules/mod_articles_news/helper.php

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// Do not display the current article in the module output
$model->setState('filter.article_id', $app->input->get('id'));
$model->setState('filter.article_id.include', false);

Note: this example is a core hack that might be overwritten with a Joomla update...