RSS Feed Includes

[CEC]

Quick question -- is there an easy way to have a specific feed apply to a parent category and ALL of its subcategories? For example, I have set up the following in browse:

<%if $cat == 184%>
<%block_rss_feed url="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=cosmetic+dentistry+&ie=UTF-8&output=rss" title="US Cosmetic Dental News" template="block.rss_feed.html" max_item="5" cache_time="86400"%>

<%else%>

<%block_rss_feed url="http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=dental&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8&eo=UTF-8" title="General US Dental News" template="block.rss_feed.html" max_item="4" cache_time="86400"%>
<%/if%>

This works to put the cosmetic dentistry feed on the one parent category page (cosmetic dentistry 184). Unfortunately, all of the subcategories default to the generic dentistry feed (general dentistry news).

[dody]

You should know the id of subs category too.
For example the subs categories are 289, 583, 599,849

<%if $cat == 184 OR $cat == 289 OR $cat == 583 OR $cat == 599 OR $cat == 849%>

[CEC]

sorry ... i was searching for an easier/more efficient method/command. there are more than 5000 subcategories.

[ezykiwi]

im not sure on how your setup is, but what about maybe using the parent id value of the categories

would that be of any use?

Cheers Ezy

[CEC]

thanks, ezy. as noted in my original post, the parent category is 184 - or cosmetic dentists. while it works for 184 (one "page"), it does not apply to its subcategories. but i agree, surely there must be a way of using the parent. otherwise its a huge task, and a management nightmare.

[dody]

You can use parent_id to get the sub categories. I think it's wiser to hack browse.php instead of smarty.

To get the sub categories, you may use GetChildren($cat) method from /lib/category.class.php

In browse.php, call

$children = $category_obj->GetChildren($cat) 

It will return an array of sub categories.