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1. liberty50
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi guys,

   I am trying to create some custom navigation for a site, where categories are displayed only within the current "family". I have the call to list the pages working fine:

   <?php wp_list_categories('child_of=112&title_li=') ?>

   I also found some code within this forum that works perfectly to conditionally display only on related pages(in this instance my top level category is id=112):

   <?php
   if ( is_category() ) {
     $cat = get_query_var('cat');
     $args = array(
       'include' => $cat,
   	  'hide_empty' => 0
   	  );
     $categories = get_categories($args);
     if ( ($cat == 112) || ($categories[0]->category_parent == 112) ) {
   
     }
   }
   ?>

   I've tested both components and they work great separately, but as soon as I try to combine them the pages fails to load. Here is what I have:

   <?php
   if ( is_category() ) {
     $cat = get_query_var('cat');
     $args = array(
       'include' => $cat,
   	  'hide_empty' => 0
   	  );
     $categories = get_categories($args);
     if ( ($cat == 112) || ($categories[0]->category_parent == 112) ) {
   <?php wp_list_categories('child_of=112&title_li=') ?>
     }
   }
   ?>

   My understanding of php is rudimentary at best and I'm guessing that this will be a simple syntactic issue. If anyone could offer advice, It would be greatly appreciated.

2. hedonplay
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   <?php wp_list_categories('child_of=112&title_li=') ?>

   you missed the ";" in the end.

3. liberty50
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank you!

   I knew it was going to be something simple. It's working perfectly now.

4. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You shouldn't have..
   

   <?php wp_list_categories('child_of=112&title_li=') ?>

   but..
   

   wp_list_categories('child_of=112&title_li=');

   The opening and closing tags shouldn't be present because you're already in PHP mode so to speak (open at the top <?php and closed at the bottom ?>).

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