I think you guys should add a sub-category thing for the topics. I run a game site and am having trouble doing it like i want..
Like we list updates, news, and other stuff per game. and when you add a story and choose your topic and then chose the category. do you news blah blah. But say i put a link up for the topic itself you see all the categories under that topic. I want t be able to have a link pointing to the category itself. for the specific topic. I tried and tried to figure it out but cant. When i make a link point to a certain category it shows all of the games news or whatever for that category.. I want it on a per game thing. like this
Game-title <-- that would be a link to the game topic itself
-news <-- would be a link to the topic's subcategory newa
-updates <-- same as above but sub cat of updates
-misc <-- same as above ect...
know what i mean???
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Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:21 am
it's a good idea and I will pass is along.... do you have any coding experience that might allow to suggest how it might be accomplished technically?
Heh, I needed that kind of feature, and stuggled a lot to see if it's available somewhere.
Basically, what the News module lacks, is the 'parent_topic_id' in the topics table, to make it branchable.
What I did, is giving the Categories names like that
* "Topic1" (topic name)
* * "Topic1 > Cat1" (category)
* * "Topic1 > Cat2" (category)
* * "Topic1 > Cat3" (category)
and so on...
This is a very bad solution IMHO. In the near future, when I'll have time, I'll do some patch for the News module, to allow it having branchable topics in tree structure.
I did this thing for many other purposes, so I think that it won't be THAT much of a problem to do it on news, though it's lot of functions and files to update :\
But I also think that it's a must feature, and it's quite a flaw in PHP-Nuke that it doesn't have it.
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