[Portfolio] fetching latest item + related items from same category

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I am now able to get the latest portfolio item; noted for the related items, I'll try to implement this.

Hi,

I'm able to get related items by hard-coding a value for the category:

perch_content_custom('Episodes', array(
       'page'=>'/episodes.php',
       'category' => array('themes/friendship')
));

One thing I'm not able to do is to get the categories of the current item. Any hints?

Cheers, Robin

I'm actually not too sure how to do it, I believe I am missing something somewhere :) I don't know how to access the path of the categories of a given item.

The following code fetches all the entries regardless of categories rather than filtering the ones from the category of current item.

$categories = perch_content_custom('Episodes', array(
     'filter' => 'slug',
     'match' => 'eq',
     'category' => perch_get('cat'),
     'template' => 'episodes/related.html',
));

Thanks for the reply, this is helpful. I get the array with all the information from the region using $result[0]. Nevertheless, when I specify the following:

$result[0]['category']

It seems that I'm only getting the id of the category, there's no mention of the name of the categories.

Array ( [0] => 4 [1] => 6 )

Am I missing something?

Drew McLellan said:

No, that's something we'll need to look at.

For the time being, is there a way to map the id of the categories to the category name?

Ok, is this something you might fix eventually? I find that it would be really useful to be able to access the categories assigned to a particular item.

Cheers,

Hi Drew,

Just wondering if you made any progress on this? The use case is to append the categories assigned to an item to both description and title meta tags.

Cheers,

Thanks for the fix!

Hi,

I have an problem getting the translated values in case of multi-lingual categories.

Here is how I set it up: I have a set of category (themes) which contains categories (perseverance, parenthood, etc.). Each of these categories has two fields for each translations.

I do get the category name but the array doesn't give me the translated text of a given category.

$results = perch_content_custom('Episodes', array(
      'skip-template' => true,
      'filter' => 'slug',
      'match' => 'eq',
      'value' => perch_get('s'),
      'count' => 1
));

$themes = $episodesResults[0]['themes'];

When I print the array, I get the name of the categories but not the translated texts.

Array ( [0] => themes/parenthood/ [1] => themes/marriage/ )

How could I go one level deeper and get the translated texts?

Cheers,

Could you give me a hint on how to do that?

I know how to filter content based on a given categories but somehow I don't understand how to access the information (in my case the two translations) from a specific category.

Thanks,

Ok thanks. I do get the two translated value by doing this:

perch_category('themes/perseverance/');

I would like now access either one of the two translations depending on the language set by the user. Usually, I can skip-template and get the array and play around with what I need. Here, it does not seem to do the trick. I believe I'm doing something which makes no sense here, as the page becomes white.

$themes = perch_category('themes/perseverance', array(
      'skip-template' => true
));

The doc states that perch_category accept an array of options. Is there an equivalent of skip-template for the perch_category? What to do to be able to print one of the two translations?

Thanks for your help!