Hello dear developers.Featured items in the order of items in categories first exit possible?The following section;Category Edit >> Category item layout >> Item ordering >>-Default-Oldest first-Most recent first-Title Alphabetical-Title Reverse-Alphabetical-Ordering-Ordering Reverse-Most popular-Highest rated-Random orderingFeatured items firs. ( If you add this option would be better for K2 component )Thank you for your interest

This has been added to the list, thanks.

Simon
K2 Support

K2Joom said:This has been added to the list, thanks.
Simon
K2 Support


Thank you for your interest Simon.
Good luck

I'm wondering whether this is already possible to do? I.e. featured in top and others sort by date?

Yes it is possible, if you are comfortable with php.  Duplicate the code that calls each item (the foreach statement) and surround each chunk of code as follows.  You should do this in template overrides.

<?php if ($this->item->featured) : ?>

first chunk of code

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if !($this->item->featured): ?>

second chunk of code

<?php endif; ?>

I can't get it to work. My code looks like this. But what I get is no item at all. Any suggestions?:

 

<?php if ($this->item->featured) : ?>            <?php foreach($this->secondary as $key=>$item): ?>                        <?php            // Define a CSS class for the last container on each row            if( (($key+1)%($this->params->get('num_secondary_columns'))==0) || count($this->secondary)<$this->params->get('num_secondary_columns') )                $lastContainer= ' itemContainerLast';            else                $lastContainer='';            ?>                        <div class="itemContainer<?php echo $lastContainer; ?>"<?php echo (count($this->secondary)==1) ? '' : ' style="width:'.number_format(100/$this->params->get('num_secondary_columns'), 1).'%;"'; ?>>                <?php                    // Load category_item.php by default                    $this->item=$item;                    echo $this->loadTemplate('item');                ?>            </div>            <?php if(($key+1)%($this->params->get('num_secondary_columns'))==0): ?>            <div class="clr"></div>            <?php endif; ?>            <?php endforeach; ?>            <?php endif; ?>


Terry A Britton said:

Yes it is possible, if you are comfortable with php.  Duplicate the code that calls each item (the foreach statement) and surround each chunk of code as follows.  You should do this in template overrides.

<?php if ($this->item->featured) : ?>

first chunk of code

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if !($this->item->featured): ?>

second chunk of code

<?php endif; ?>

Sorry my explanation wasn't very good.  The test for the featured status goes inside the foreach loop.

 

            <?php foreach($this->secondary as $key=>$item): ?>

                    <?php if ($this->item->featured) : ?>

...

 

                   <?php endif; ?>            <?php endforeach; ?>

Thanks for getting back so quickly. Unfortunately this doesn't help either. I'm not getting any items. Of course I checked that the "show featured items" is enabled and indeed it is displaying featured items in the overview when I commented out your code. Any other suggestions?

 

<?php foreach($this->secondary as $key=>$item): ?>            <?php if ($this->item->featured) : ?>            <?php            // Define a CSS class for the last container on each row            if( (($key+1)%($this->params->get('num_secondary_columns'))==0) || count($this->secondary)<$this->params->get('num_secondary_columns') )                $lastContainer= ' itemContainerLast';            else                $lastContainer='';            ?>            <div class="itemContainer<?php echo $lastContainer; ?>"<?php echo (count($this->secondary)==1) ? '' : ' style="width:'.number_format(100/$this->params->get('num_secondary_columns'), 1).'%;"'; ?>>                <?php                    // Load category_item.php by default                    $this->item=$item;                    echo $this->loadTemplate('item');                ?>            </div>            <?php if(($key+1)%($this->params->get('num_secondary_columns'))==0): ?>            <div class="clr"></div>            <?php endif; ?>            <?php endif; ?>            <?php endforeach; ?>

Depending on your category layout you can have leading, primary and secondary items, which are each called separately.  The code above will only affect secondary items.  Make the same change to the primary and leading sections ($this->primary and $this-secondary).   As I mentioned earlier in the post you will also have to duplicate the code to call the non-featured items.

I set the primary, leading and links count to 0. Only secondary items are visible right now (featured and non-featured).

 

For testing purposes I didn't dublicate the code I just sourrended the code that calls the secondary items (see above) with your statement. If I'm correct then it should force the code to only show featured items as secondary items. But the area for the secondary items is just empty.

Short update on this. I also tested the 'not show any featured item' if statement. Compared to the statement above it causes the whole website to break. I receive a blank page.

I'll try to play with it this weekend.

Great. Let me know if you need any help.

Hey Markus, just wrap the following portion of the foreach statement as shown.

 

if ($this->item->featured) {

        echo $this->loadTemplate('item');}

 

The syntax for not featured is:

 

if (!$this->item->featured) {

        echo $this->loadTemplate('item');}

Awesome. I will try this and let you know.

It's working Terry. Good job. Unfortunately there's another problem: Your code generates a "itemContainer" div no matter if the 'if-function' matches or not.

This causes a lot of empty div containers that are breaking the layout. For instance if you're working with a two column layout for the secondary items there will be a lot of rows only displaying one item. It's like having empty placeholders.

My first approach was preferrable for just this reason, but I couldn't ever get it to work consistently.  Not sure why.  Give me a link to your site, may be something we can do in css.

Terry - I found a solution for this. I just placed the code snippet in front of the div container...simple but useful.

 

Great. Glad you got it working.