News module taking category from menu text?

[tristan]

Hi there,

I'm looking for a way to have the news module take the category from the menu text of that page. This would be really nice because this way I can still have one template for all the pages because I want each page to have a different news category. I'm  trying to do this:

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{cms_module module="news" category="{menu_text}"}

This however, obviously, doesn't work. Does anyone over here have a simple solution for this problem?

Kind regards,

Tristan

[calguy1000]

use the get_template_vars plugin (describe elsewhare in the forum) to see if the current menu text is exported as a variable.  if it is, then you should be able to do a:

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{cms_module module="news" category="$variable"}

[mikemee]

Depending on your scenario, a value of $page works pretty well.  E.g. see http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/http://p ... 664#p27664.

[FinnK]

Why not make different (normal) pages with the news module displaying news from different categories - and naming the pages and menutexts accordingly?
- am I missing something?