Category dependant includes

[Stro]

I'm looking for a way to include a category dependant sidebar in my entrypage. I have two separate sidebar files; _sub_sidebar1.html and _sub_sidebar2.html.

If the category in the entrypage is 1, I would like to show _sub_sidebar1.html. If the category in the entrypage is 2, I would like to show _sub_sidebar2.html.

I hoped [[ include file="templatename/_sub_sidebar[[ category ]].html" ]] would work, but I guess it can't be done this way.

Thanks in advance.

[Bob]

Hi,

You can't use [[tags]] inside other tags. What you want is to set a variable, and use that.

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[[ assign var=category value=$entry.category.0 ]]
[[ include file="templatename/_sub_sidebar_$category.html" ]]


So if you have a category named 'blabla', it will include _sub_sidebar_blabla.html

Better even, would be to make sure a 'default' is used, for pages that won't fall into either one of those categories.. For instance, the frontpage of the site, and such..

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[[ assign var=category value=$entry.category.0 ]]
[[ if $category!="" ]]
  [[ include file="templatename/_sub_sidebar_$category.html" ]]
[[ else ]]
    [[ include file="templatename/_sub_sidebar_default.html" ]]
[[/if]]


[Stro]

Cheers Bob; exactly what I needed.

Have a great and "Kingly" 2010!