Filtering Categories by Blog Section

Ok thanks.

I'm trying to think of a way around it...

If I use categories with subcategories can I filter on the catSlug using the categories as a way of 'sectioning' the subcategories?

Does a subcategories category appear in the Slug? I don't think it does, so perhaps I've answered my own question

Hi Drew,

Apologises for the delay, I'm just getting my head back into this project.

To create a list of categories with 'monkey' in the path would I do something like this?

            <?php
                perch_blog_categories(array(
                    'template' => 'category_listings.html',
                    'filter' => 'catSlug',
                             'match' => 'eq',
                             'value' => 'monkey',

                ));
            ?>

No it doesn't.

EDIT:

Actually sorry I may not have been very clear. I'm looking to sort by the Categories Path so say there are some categories like:

blog/animal/monkey

blog/animal/panda

I want to get all the categories with the 'animal' path, is that possible?

            <?php
                perch_blog_categories(array(
                    'template' => 'category_listings.html',
                    'filter' => 'catSlug',
                    'match' => 'eq',
                    'value' => 'animal',

                ));
            ?>

Is filtering by catSlug going to look at the Path?

To get all categories that contains 'animal' I'd do this?

            <?php
                perch_blog_categories(array(
                    'template' => 'category_listings.html',
                    'filter' => 'catSlug',
                    'match' => 'eq',
                    'value' => 'animal',

                ));
            ?>

I feel I could use Category templates to help me create a way of filtering what I want here but I'm having trouble using it. Whenever I try to change the Category Template or Set Template it just reverts back to Set for each

That's what I was suppose to paste into my previous post rather than repeating eq again.

That doesn't return anything.

Debug:

SELECT main.* , COALESCE(cc.countValue,0) AS `count.blog.post` FROM perch2_categories main LEFT OUTER JOIN perch2_category_counts cc ON cc.catID=main.catID WHERE 1=1 AND (catSlug REGEXP '[[:<:]]animal[[:>:]]') AND setID='1' AND (cc.countType='blog.post' OR cc.countType IS NULL) AND cc.countValue > 0 ORDER BY catTreePosition ASC

Yes it's the blog one.

Thanks Drew.

The Set template and Category template is on 'Set' and I can't change it (it reverts back after saving). I'm not sure if that would have anything to do with it but thought it was worth a mention.

Yes I am, but I think I had the category template problem before