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Brian
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12 years 4 months ago #113961 by Brian

Reference Tags on home page was created by Brian

I'm trying to "sort" through content on the homepage to display particular items based on the "Tags" that are included in them, but I can't figure out how to reference those tags from the home page.

I can reference tags on the item pages with no problem and am using that to display different images, but it doesn't seem to work on the index.php home page.

Here's what I've tried:

<?php
        echo count($items); //this returns 13, which is the correct number of items
        echo count($item->tags); //this returns 0
        echo $params->get('itemTitle'); //this returns 1
        echo $params->get('itemTags'); //this returns 0
?>

Any ideas??

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Krikor Boghossian
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12 years 4 months ago #113962 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Re: Reference Tags on home page

Hello Brian,

echo $params->get(xxx) will always return 0 or 1 because it is just boolean (check).

For the comments you will have to use a category_item.php override ( assuming your menu item is a K2 categories one.)

You will notice that this template part uses $this->item instead of $item so you will need the variables

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12 years 4 months ago #113963 by Brian

Replied by Brian on topic Re: Reference Tags on home page

Thanks Krikor!
I'm actually modifying the code within the default.php template inside mod_k2_content/templ/myCustomTemplate

When I put in:
$this->item->params->get('catItemTags') // If the tags are enabled
echo count($this->item->tags) // the count

It throws the following error:
Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla25\modules\mod_k2_content\tmpl\unique\default.php on line 20

If I just put in:
echo $params->get('catItemTags'); // it doesn't return anything

Not sure how to create the reference to the tags outside of the item object...

Will keep trying things.

Thanks!

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Krikor Boghossian
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12 years 4 months ago #113964 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Re: Reference Tags on home page

Oh I see,

As I told you this code is for the component view not the mod_k2_content. You can alter this code a bit and it should work.

You can use instead $params->get('itemTags') and $item-> instead of $this->item

If you have any doubts you can always open the default module template and view the original code.

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