Entry Count for Categories/Subcategories?

[Vanessa]

Hi,

When you click on a top-level category that doesn't have a question, it says "No entries available" - some people might think that this means there are no entries available in the sub-categories as well, and won't bother to check them.

Is it possible to add some code that lists the sub-categories and the number of entries available in them?

I'm currently using v1.4.8 but can upgrade to a RC4 1.5.

Thanks! Love the software!

ETA: I've installed a test version of RC4 1.5 but I wanted to move the "Newest Questions" and "Ten Most Viewed" to the main template rather than the index. It was easy enough to do in v1.4.x but not so much now that the templates have been written... could someone help me out with that as well?

[Thorsten]

Hi,

you're right, the number of entries in the categories is a good idea.

About the newest questions and the TopTen:
This will be changed in 1.5.1, I've got a great patch for this problem.

bye
Thorsten

[Vanessa]

Thanks Thorsten.

About the newest questions and the TopTen:
This will be changed in 1.5.1, I've got a great patch for this problem.

If anyone else is impatient for a quick 'n dirty patch for this now, I found that inserting:

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"writeTopTenHeader" => $PMF_LANG["msgTopTen"],
"writeTopTenRow" => generateTopTen(),
"writeNewestHeader" => $PMF_LANG["msgLatestArticles"],
"writeNewestRow" => generateFiveNewest()
));

to Line 25 of main.php fixed the problem for me. Then I added

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	<div class="content">
	<div id="latest">
	<h3>{writeNewestHeader}</h3>
	{writeNewestRow}
	</div>
	</div>

and

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<div class="content">
<div id="topten">
<h3>{writeTopTenHeader}</h3>
{writeTopTenRow}
</div>
</div>

to wherever I wanted "Newest Header" and "TopTenHeader" to appear in main.tpl

Hope that you'll consider adding the number of entries in the sub-category feature to later versions of the software!

[Gastongr]

Mhmm, what do you exactly mean by "inserting to Line 25 "

In line 25 i have

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 $tpl->includeTemplate('writeContent', 'index');

Should i replace that with what you posted?. I have tryed many ways but can't get it working, i'm doing something wrong.
Thanks for your help

[Gastongr]

Anybody?
Please help, i don't fully understand Vanessa's explanation
Gaston

[Thorsten]

Hi,

main.php has to look like this:

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<?php
/**
* $Id: main.php,v 1.2.2.2 2005/08/24 13:36:27 thorstenr Exp $
*
* @author       Thorsten Rinne <thorsten@phpmyfaq.de>
* @since        2002-08-23
* @copyright    (c) 2001-2005 phpMyFAQ Team
* 
* The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License
* Version 1.1 (the 'License'); you may not use this file except in
* compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
* http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
* 
* Software distributed under the License is distributed on an 'AS IS'
* basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
* License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
* under the License.
*/

$tpl->processTemplate ('writeContent', array(
                        'writeTopTenHeader' => $PMF_LANG['msgTopTen'],
                        'writeTopTenRow' => generateTopTen($LANGCODE),
                        'writeNewestHeader' => $PMF_LANG['msgLatestArticles'],
                        'writeNewestRow' => generateFiveNewest($LANGCODE),
                       'writeNewsHeader' => $PMF_CONF['title'].$PMF_LANG['msgNews'],
                       'writeNews' => generateNews($LANGCODE),
                       'writeNumberOfArticles' => $PMF_LANG['msgHomeThereAre'].generateNumberOfArticles().$PMF_LANG['msgHomeArticlesOnline']));

$tpl->includeTemplate('writeContent', 'index');
?>

bye
Thorsten

[Gastongr]

Thanks so much, i got it working

[Alberto]

Hi,

About the top-level category that doesn't have a question and says "No entries available", still no code/patch available?

Best Regards

[Thorsten]

Hi Alberto,

what patch do you want to see with a top-level category with no entries?

bye
Thorsten

[Alberto]

I hope i'm talking about the same thing and that my english isn't so bad

...

Is it possible to add some code that lists the sub-categories and the number of entries available in them?

...

...

you're right, the number of entries in the categories is a good idea.

...

so instead to display "no entries" on the top-level category it will display
the sub-category with the number of entries.

btw, great program!

Best Regards

[jazcyk]

I simply did like this:
http://www.webyog.com/faq/category24.html

[Vanessa]

Hi jazcyk,

Can I ask how you got it like that - did you have to hard code the link to the categories, or can you change the php code?

Thanks for any help.

[Thorsten]

Hi Vanessa,

we introduced this in 1.5.5.

bye
Thorsten

[jazcyk]

@vanessa

what I did with 1.5.0-1.5.4 was simply to add one single article to each empty catetory. The article had a header but no body!

But I just deleted these 'dummy' entries since the FAQ system itself now handles it OK.

[Vanessa]

Thanks Thorsten and jazcyk - I'm still using an old version, will try and implement your solution jazcyk.