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K2 Templating ? 11 months, 3 weeks ago #4269

MartinB
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Hi all,

I'm dipping my toes into the murky world of K2 templating after Norm's presentation to MJUG last week (thanks Norm!)

Moving stuff around via css is pretty straight forward however I *think* I need a functional change and this is where my lack of PHP is a hinderence... assuming that's the issue/solution of course

I'm wanting to create a category/blog view of my items (articles) that include showing my extra fields in the blog layout. I've checked all the K2 item and category options that should "show extra fields" but no luck. I've also looked at using the JB Microblog module, and that doesn't seem to offer the soultion either.

If I'm not mistaken I need to move the "catItemExtraFields" section of code from with the file category_item.php however I'm not sure where it needs to be moved to ??

Suggestions ?

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Re: K2 Templating ? 11 months, 3 weeks ago #4270

buipy001
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This is for k2 2.4.2 I think.

Add this code to your category_items.php file in your K2 templates folder whether it is a template override or a part of the core.

<?php if($this->item->params->get('catItemExtraFields') && count($this->item->extra_fields)): ?>
	  <!-- Item extra fields -->
	  <div class="catItemExtraFields">
	  	<h4><?php echo JText::_('Additional Info'); ?></h4>
	  	<ul>
			<?php foreach ($this->item->extra_fields as $key=>$extraField): ?>
			<li class="<?php echo ($key%2) ? "odd" : "even"; ?> type<?php echo ucfirst($extraField->type); ?> group<?php echo $extraField->group; ?>">
				<span class="catItemExtraFieldsLabel"><?php echo $extraField->name; ?></span>
				<span class="catItemExtraFieldsValue"><?php echo $extraField->value; ?></span>
			</li>
			<?php endforeach; ?>
			</ul>
	    <div class="clr"></div>
	  </div>
	  <?php endif; ?>

I may have moddified the code but I can't remember now.

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Re: K2 Templating ? 11 months, 3 weeks ago #4271

MartinB
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Hi Peter

Thanks for that - I already have a similar looking (same ?) code block in my category_items.php file as part of the 2.4.1 install ?

 
 
<?php if($this->item->params->get('catItemExtraFields') && count($this->item->extra_fields)): ?>
	  <!-- Item extra fields -->
	  <div class="catItemExtraFields">
	  	<h4><?php echo JText::_('Additional Info'); ?></h4>
	  	<ul>
			<?php foreach ($this->item->extra_fields as $key=>$extraField): ?>
			<li class="<?php echo ($key%2) ? "odd" : "even"; ?> type<?php echo ucfirst($extraField->type); ?> group<?php echo $extraField->group; ?>">
				<span class="catItemExtraFieldsLabel"><?php echo $extraField->name; ?></span>
				<span class="catItemExtraFieldsValue"><?php echo $extraField->value; ?></span>
			</li>
			<?php endforeach; ?>
			</ul>
	    <div class="clr"></div>
	  </div>
	  <?php endif; ?>

I was wondering if the Blog view truncated anything after the intro text and though if I moved the code up higher I'd bypass that - coding never was my strong suit

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Last Edit: 11 months, 3 weeks ago by MartinB. Reason: updated

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Re: K2 Templating ? 11 months, 3 weeks ago #4273

MartinB OFFLINE Expert Boarder Posts: 90 Karma: 0	Ok clearly not enough beer has been consumed today to ensure proper focus I was using the wrong menu type (K2 Latest rather than K2 Category) and by default the functionality is there So I'm all sorted - cheers Peter once more
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