Output depending on category name

Resolved candell
(@candell)

14 years, 9 months ago

I am creating a page that will display posts from 3 categories, display them in date order but the result display will be different depending on the category it is from.

For example category1 result should look different to category2, can someone see where I am going wrong with my code?

http://pastebin.com/GxH7XctV

Each post is only in 1 category so I don`t need to worry about printing duplicates, I just need the loop to;

check what the category name is
print the result depending on what category it is from
move onto next result

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Michael
(@alchymyth)

14 years, 9 months ago

http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.if.php

Often you’d want to have more than one statement to be executed conditionally. Of course, there’s no need to wrap each statement with an if clause. Instead, you can group several statements into a statement group.

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Thread Starter candell
(@candell)

14 years, 9 months ago

Getting there, but I have two problems

1. category1 has just one line of text in the description, so I want to remove the paragraph tags. My replace doesn`t remove them

2. my print isn`t working as I’d hoped;
I need to output
<h2 class="cat2"><a href=thelink>The title</a></h2>
so I used
echo '<h2 class="cat2"><a href="'.the_permalink().'">'.the_title().'</a></h2>';
but I get
thelink thetitle<h2 class="cat2"><a href=""></a></h2>

Why is it doing that?

Thanks

http://pastebin.com/LpN7yeYx

Michael
(@alchymyth)

14 years, 9 months ago

for use in strings or with echo, you need to use the get_permalink() and get_the_title() or the_title('','', false) codes

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_permalink
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_title
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_title

similar with these sections:
str_replace($itemstoremove, "", the_content())

instead of the_content() try and use get_the_content() or apply_filters(get_the_content())

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_content

Thread Starter candell
(@candell)

14 years, 9 months ago

Aha didn`t know about that, thank you very much for the help.
My first wordpress (and php) website, usually work in asp so it is a learning curve at the moment.

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