What is it that you’re trying to do, exactly?
A little clarification might help us give you an answer.
I want to list some posts outside the loop in single post page, i’m using query_posts to that, and i want the posts to be the same category, in archives pages the code i’ve used works, but for single posts pages it doesnt work..
maybe the cat='.get_query_var('cat') is wrong
Don’t know where I first saw (or used this) but, it will display posts belonging to the categories of the current post without duplicating the current post
<?php
global $post;
$cat_ID=array();
$categories = get_the_category(); //get all categories for this post
foreach($categories as $category) {
array_push($cat_ID,$category->cat_ID);
}
$args = array(
'orderby' => 'date',
'order' => 'DESC',
'post_type' => 'post',
'numberposts' => 8,
'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
'category__in' => $cat_ID
); // post__not_in will exclude the post we are displaying
$cat_posts = get_posts($args);
$out='';
foreach($cat_posts as $cat_post) {
$out .= '<li>';
$out .= '<a href="'.get_permalink($cat_post->ID).'" title="'.wptexturize($cat_post->post_title).'">'.wptexturize($cat_post->post_title).'</a></li>';
}
$out = '<ul class="cat_post">' . $out . '</ul>';
echo $out;
?>
im using this
<?php
query_posts('showposts=8&cat='.get_query_var('cat')); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="postt">
<a target="_blank" href="/link/out.php?link=gal&s=80&url=<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php printf(__('Permanent Link to %s', 'mandigo'), the_title('', '', false)); ?>">
<?php global $more; $more = FALSE; ?>
<?php the_content(''); ?>
<?php $more = TRUE; ?><b><?php the_title(); ?></b></a></div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
but it dont get the category id correctly in single post page :/
Well I don’t believe get_query_var('cat') will work in single.php.
dont have anything simple like and that works?
Not really, it’s more complex with a single post because you have to get the categories (there could be more than one) for the post.
getting just the first category will work
$categories = get_the_category(); //get all categories for this post
echo ‘first category is ‘ . $categories[0]->cat_ID;
