Right to it:

Already, I've inserted an image file into the main index, which, appears above the title of each entry. [Insert Applause]

But, I want the image to change, according to the category. I have two categories of entries: politics and prose.

How do I make an image correspond to a category? (Take a look at my site: particularly the peace sign.

The code thus far--



Again, how can I alter that code to use multiple images (which correspond to particular categories)?

--tryiN

What I would do is have an image with a filename that corresponds to the <$MTEntryCategory$>. One limitation (unless you want to go into content negotiation, etc.) is that any category images will have to be the same type. i.e., .gif, .jpg, .png.

Using your example, I'd do something like:


Thinking on it some, and remembering a CSS fiasco that occurred when I was switching over to MT, I'd probably make that img<$MTEntryCategory$>.gif, and have a backup "img.gif" file lying around just in case I forgot to assign a category to a specific entry.

Stupid Question:

How does a particular category correspond to a particular image?

I use two categories: politics and prose. And I have two graphics, one for each.

:Thank You

Ok, in your MT setup, you have your specific categories. Let's make up some for example purposes. You have a Peace.gif file, so let's make a category called "Peace" in MT, if there's not one now. Now let's also add "War", "Famine", "Death", "Pestilance", and "FuzzyLemons". Note there's no spaces in these catgory names. It'll make your life less complicated if you're hosting on a Unix/Linux/BSD system.

We have our category names. Now we're going to make some .gif files. And since this is an example where I get to make the rules , we're going to include my corollary, and name them imgPeace.gif, imgWar.gif, imgFamine.gif, and so forth. We're also going to have a fall-through image named "img.gif" just in case we forget to assign a category to the entry.

Now if you look at the code block in my first reply, you'll see that I'm using the <$MTEntryCategory$> tag for the image source and the image alt tag.

Ok, I didn't see that you just had the two categories. It's still the same concept. You'd just need to make sure you have 2 images, politics.gif and prose.gif, and make sure you always assign a category to each entry, or you'll end up with the broken image icon in your browser.

Jake S:

Stranger, whutup? ...Gracias. Got it done.

Now, onto the next: my category archive pages are controlled via the category template. However, I cannot customize their appearances to correspond to the actual category. In other words, all category pages are identical except for the entry content.

Is there a simple way to customize their appearances? Say, have one appearance for prose, and a separate appearance for politics?

:Thomas V

Pretty simple, actually.

Two distinct ways I can think of, but I'm just going to go with the simplest (IMO) since it's early in the morning, and I'm not thinking very strongly right now.

Create 2 extra stylesheets that override the specific aspects you want for prose and politics. Name them "styleprose.css" and "stylepolitics.css".

Now in your category archive template, somewhere between {head} and {/head} (replace "{}" with appropriate angle brackets) , put in the following:



That should do the trick.

Alright, using Internet Explorer from a Mac, the category-assigned graphics appear. However, they don't appear, when viewing the page using IE from a Sony.

Why not?

The code I've used is as follows--



Why won't Windows XP recognize the photos? They don't appear at all.

(NOTE: Here's a link to past discussion on this topic.)

Gracias before,

http://www.youthurban.com/thomascarrow/

EDIT: Topics merged

This post has been edited by maddy: Nov 17 2003, 01:33 PM

You not alert. Add a carrot, stupid.

Is that meant to mean something?

The images are showing up in both Mozilla Firebird and IE6 now. So I don't have any idea what the carrot comment was!

Bugs Bunny visited the message boards, maybe?

Rascals:

The coding lacked a necessary (end) carrot. See if you can find it. Give up,



Tricky, huh?

:Bugs Bunny

For others who might find this category through searching later ... you can also use images in relation to categories, even when the category is named with multilple words.

i.e.: You have a category called My Daily Life and another called Ranting. You want images to represent either category. This is what you would do:



This would make your categories read out as: my_daily_life and ranting (strictly in the URL for the image) and rid any spaces. You would then just have your images titled the same: my_daily_life.gif and ranting.gif

I use this myself to show which categories I have my entries in, and it works beautifully.

what happens if you assign multiple categories to entries? which image would it try and use? or would it try to render all of them?

It renders them all. See my site and look for an entry with multiple categories for an example.

And just to end the debate, youthurban is wrong.

> is greater than
< is less than
and
^ is CARET (not carrot)