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#128220

Hi,

I am currently properly displaying the category description when viewing a category. However, when I click the link to view an individual article within a category, I would also like to include the category description in the article.

I’ve tried to include the following code in the com_content/article/default.php file, but no success:

<?php if ($this->params->def('show_description', 1) || $this->params->def('show_description_image', 1)) :?>
<div class="jazin-pagedesc">
<?php if ($this->params->get('show_description_image') && $this->section->image) : ?>
<img src="<?php echo $this->baseurl . '/' . $cparams->get('image_path') . '/'. $this->section->image;?>" align="<?php echo $this->section->image_position;?>" hspace="6" alt="" />
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ($this->params->get('show_description') && $this->section->description) : ?>
<?php echo $this->section->description; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

any help appreciated…

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#269328

Did you manage to get this solved? If you did please mark this as solved, in not reply here and we will try to help you out.

[famelink Friend famelinkJoin date: May 2008Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#269582

Yes, I did get this resolved. Not as clean as I had hoped, but it works for me.
Basically in the templates folder I modified the article default.php file (templatesja_teline_iihtmlcom_contentarticledefault.php) and added the following code:

[PHP]<?php if ($this->params->get(‘link_section’)) : ?>
<table>
<tr>
<td width=”60%” valign=”top” class=”jazin-pagedesc”>
<?php if ($this->category->image) : ?>
<img src=”images/stories/<?php echo $this->category->image;?>” align=”<?php echo $this->category->image_position;?>” hspace=”6″ alt=”<?php echo $this->this->category->image;?>” />
<?php endif; ?>
<?php echo $this->category->description; ?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php endif; ?>[/PHP]

however the category object is not available by default, so both in the joomla article model and view I had to made some additional changes to make the category object available.

It works for me and I can turn the category description on/off for an article by setting the “Section Title Linkable” option which I wasnt using anyway otherwise…

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