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[bijuhameed Friend bijuhameedJoin date: January 2007Posts: 19Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#158362

Hello,

I would appreciate some help with how to manage this. I would like to have unique category list table headings for different categories.

The way I have achieved this now is by duplicating the templates and assiging it to the individual category listing menu, after customising the
templates/ja_portfolio/html/com_content/category/default_items.php

But that would mean, I need to duplicate the template 4 or 5 times. Does this have any effect on peformance.

Better yet, is there any way to do a override by having multiple default_items.php in the same templates/ja_portfolio/html/com_content/category/

I did explore language overriding with help from the joomla forum, but the category list table heading variables seem to be inbuilt into the template

Cheers
Bijou

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#370772

Dear bijuhameed,

Not sure what you meant,I think you can override as many times as you want in the folder of templates/ja_portfolio/html/com_content/category/. Can you explain more details what you want / have done ?

[bijuhameed Friend bijuhameedJoin date: January 2007Posts: 19Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#370903

<em>@dathq 213614 wrote:</em><blockquote>Dear bijuhameed,

Not sure what you meant,I think you can override as many times as you want in the folder of templates/ja_portfolio/html/com_content/category/. Can you explain more details what you want / have done ?</blockquote>

Thanks dathq,

Essentially I would like to have a different
ja_portfolio/html/com_content/category/default_items.php
for individual menu items or individual categories.

The purpose is to have different table headings in the articles > category list view for different categories.

cheers
Bijou

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#371005

Dear bijuhameed,

If you open the file of ja_portfolio/html/com_content/category/default.php you would see a block of code like this
[PHP] <?php $this->items =& $this->getItems();
echo $this->loadTemplate(‘items’); ?>[/PHP] You can add a IF Statement here,for example
[PHP]
<?php $this->items =& $this->getItems();
if(){
echo $this->loadTemplate(‘items’); ?>

}esle if{
echo $this->loadTemplate(‘items1’);
} else if{
echo $this->loadTemplate(‘items2’);
}
so on…
[/PHP] above is just sample code,you need to make change yourself for it to work.
I hope you understand what I meant !

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