List categories as text in a headline, with commas

  • Resolved figure2

    (@figure2)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    Greetings. I playing with a php function to display a list of up to 3 categories (Advertising, Design, Publishing) in a headline, with commas after all but the last category item. I figured out how to display the categories with commas but can’t figure out how to eliminate the comma after the last category item.

    Here are my PHP efforts so far:

    <h4>
<?php $taxterms = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'portfolio_category' );
$taxcount = count($taxterms);
	if($taxcount == 1){
		if ($taxterms)
			foreach ($taxterms as $taxterm){
				echo $taxterm->name . ' '; }
	}else if($taxcount > 1){
		if ($taxterms)
			foreach ($taxterms as $taxterm){
				 echo $taxterm->name . ', ';
			}
	}
	?>
</h4>

    Here is how it looks on the site: http://www.lcomdesigns.com/portfolio/teaching-the-levees/

    Any help eliminating that last comma is appreciated.

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  • alphaalec

    (@alphaalec)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    You could add the commas with css instead of php.

    If the count is greater than one, wrap each category in a span, and remove the comma output. Then add the commas in with css like so:

    h4 span:after {
	content: ", ";
}
h4 span:last-of-type:after {
	display: none;
}
    Thread Starter figure2

    (@figure2)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks. I’ll give it a shot.

    Thread Starter figure2

    (@figure2)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    @alphaalec: Your method worked. Thanks.

    For anyone who is interested, this is my final code using the CSS above:

    <h4>
<?php $taxterms = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'portfolio_category' );
	$taxcount = count($taxterms);
	if($taxcount == 1){
		if ($taxterms)
			foreach ($taxterms as $taxterm){
				echo $taxterm->name;
		}
	}else if($taxcount > 1){
		if ($taxterms)
			foreach ($taxterms as $taxterm){
				 echo '<span>' . $taxterm->name . '</span>';
		}
	}
 ?>
</h4>

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