Cataloger 0.2 Module

[mikemcvey]

Hi,

I am hoping to use this module but need some help figuring out how to do this...
I have added a custom attribute to the items called - "summary"

I want this to show when I am looking at the catagory level.

So that user can see the
1] title
2] image
3] and summary

Any ideas how I would access this value from the category template?

Any help very appreciated as am pretty stuck on this one!

[sjg]

This has actually been updated in SVN to support exactly that kind of thing.

The change is in cataloger/action.defaultcategory.php, around line 99. Before the line that contains

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			array_push($categoryItems,$thisItem);

paste in the following code:

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$theseAttrs = $thisPage->getAttrs();
foreach ($theseAttrs as $thisAttr)
{
$safeattr = strtolower(preg_replace('/\W/','',$thisAttr));
				$thisItem[$thisAttr] = $thisPage->GetPropertyValue($thisAttr);
}

You'll also need to add the attribute tag of your summary to your category template.

Keep in mind that this change imposes an overhead when displaying category pages, and can result in more database queries. But then, Cataloger is not a very efficient module, database-wise.

[mikemcvey]

Awesome... thanks!

[HMTKSteve]

I could not find the line in my file...

I'm using cataloger 0.4.1

[sjg]

No need to add it!

It's already built in to Cataloger 0.4.1

___Samuel___

[HMTKSteve]

I posted a question about this in a different forum http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 834.0.html and I have not been able to pull the values from the db to make it work.

Thanks!

[sjg]

Doh!

The code posted here has the same bug as is in Cataloger 0.4.1 as well.

It should be

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{
$safeattr = strtolower(preg_replace('/\W/','',$thisAttr));
$thisItem[$safeattr] = $thisPage->GetPropertyValue($thisAttr);
}

I'll patch that, and release 0.4.2.

That way, the attribute will properly be the attribute name all lower cased and with only alphanumerics.

Sorry 'bout that.

___Samuel___

[HMTKSteve]

I'm getting a lot of use out of cataloger but I have a question...

I'm using the table layout to list game reviews and their pertinent information (http://www.thedicetower.com/thedicetower) but I was wondering if there is any easy way to allow the user to resort the catalog entries based on the Item Attributes I have addedd to each item?

For example we list publisher, designer and rating for each game. Currently the catalog lists all the reviews alphabeticaly but I would love for the user to be able to resort the displayed listing by product attribute.

If this is already possible, could you help me out?

Thanks!

[sjg]

Unfortunately, sorting by attribute is not (yet) possible.

The other thing that I'm facing when working on my own site that uses Cataloger, is that if you have a menu that shows the child pages of a catalog section page, the menu does not re-order according to the ordering selected for the catalog section page. In other words, my catalpg section page displays the items alphabetically, but the menu still shows them in the hierarchy order.

I'm trying to think of the best way to approach this in order to make it make the most sense to the user.

If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Obviously, they'd also apply to other sort orders as they get added.

Thanks,
___Samuel___

[HMTKSteve]

Another problem posted here -> http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 092.0.html

[climberusa]

You'll also need to add the attribute tag of your summary to your category template.

Can someone explain the code I need to place in my category template to display item attributes at that level? I've added the code to my module and i couldn't figure it out. I even downloaded then latest version of cataloger and still have had no success. Can I just access the attributes like {$attribute} or am I missing something????