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ramH
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2003 3:01 pm    Post subject: Sorting categories/forums problem Reply with quote

I have been playing and using smarty for a while. I built a kind of url database and used smarty as template. Bu now I want to go further and create a forum. I know it has been before but i consider it a nice challenge. Smile

But I bumped against a problem and thatswhy I am here. In a forum you have forumcategories and subforums. But how do I display that using smarty. I use this sql-query to get the data form my database:
Code:
SELECT
   c.id AS category_id, c.category AS category_category, l.url AS link_url, l.description AS link_description, l.category AS link_category
FROM
   category AS c, links AS l
WHERE
   c.id = l.category
ORDER BY
   c.category

In PHP I used to use this while-for-loop to display it:
Code:
$lastcat = "";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result_links))
{
   if($lastcat != $row['category_id'])
      {
         print "<br /><b>" . $row['category_category'] . "</b><br />\n";
         $lastcat = $row['category_id'];
      }
   print "<a href=\"" . $row['link_url'] . "\" target=\"_blank\">" . $row['link_description'] . "</a><br />\n";
}

And that gives this result in my browser:
Code:
Category 1
Forum A

Category 2
Forum B
Forum C

But how do I do this using smarty? Because I can not find a function that can do the same as while as I would like. I tried using foreach but I actually do not understand the syntax of that function correctly because it does not work. Can you please help me? Smile
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boots
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Location: Toronto, Canada

PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2003 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result_links) ) {
    $rows[] = $row;
}

$smarty->assign('rows', $rows);

---

{section name=row loop=$rows}
    {if $rows[row].category_id neq $rows[row.index_prev].category_id}
        <br/><b>{$rows[row].category_id}</b><br/>
    {/if}
    <a href="{$row$[row].link_url}" target="_blank">{$rows[row].link_description}</a><br />
{/section}


Should get you started Smile

See: http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.function.section.php
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messju
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Location: Oldenburg, Germany

PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2003 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

build up an array-structure that is easy to handle for smarty. example:
Code:

$lastcat = "";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result_links))
{
   if($lastcat != $row['category_id'])
      {
         $cats[$row['category_id']] = $row['category_category'];
         $forums[$row['category_id']] = array();
         $lastcat = $row['category_id'];
      }
      $forums[$lastcat][] = array('url'=>$row['link_url'],'description'=>$row['link_description']);
}

$smarty->assign('cats', $cats);
$smarty->assign('forums', $forums);


(don't try the if-last-cat-stuff inside the template, do it before in php, that's easier==better)

nest two loops inside your template, to dump the structure:
Code:

{foreach from=$cats key=cat_id item=categorie}
  {$categorie}
  {foreach from=$forums[$cat_id] item=forum}
  <a href="{$forum.link}">{$forum.description}</a>
  {/foreach}
{/foreach}


the above is not tested, but it should make clear what i mean.

HTH
messju
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ramH
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2003 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tried boots' solution and that worked. Great! Smile
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boots
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2003 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is a subtle difference with messju's solution -- all of the logic for processing the logical data is handled in the PHP code. Notice how his template has no {if} statement and merely deals with the presentation logic of formatting/outputing the already processed data.

This is a strategy that should be emulated as often as possible when writing your application and template logic.

Cheers.
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