[Help] How to add description for categories ?

[saimi1s]

Hello,

 

How can i add decsriptions for each categories ? (not for forums)

 

Thanks

[DragonVoid]

I don't understand what you mean? Could you please explain more?

[saimi1s]

Sure Dragonvoid,

 

On ipb you have Categories/Forums/Sub-forums

 

What i'm looking for it's a way to add TEXT DESCRIPTION for CATEGORIES like we do for Forums.

On IPB official website they said that it's not possible..

If you have any solution ?

 

Thks

Or if you can find a way to add text under a CATEGORIE, but different text for each categories

[DragonVoid]

I don't know.. If they said it's not possible then it's most likely not unless you get a custom hook/application that does this.

[saimi1s]

Can we find a way to do it by editing the indextemplate ?

[pctsystem]

no there is no way to do that. 

 

Many people asking IPS about that matter.
but IPS answered:
let's make it easy. Name the Category that Explain everything in the first read.

Or else

you can ask some Hook Dev to Develop this hook for you

[saimi1s]

Thks Pctsystem

[Lock Down]

Of course you can edit the boardindextemplate to add descriptions for categories..

find

<foreach loop="categories:$cat_data as $_data">
<if test="cat_has_forums:|:is_array( $_data['forum_data'] ) AND count( $_data['forum_data'] )">
<div id='category_{$_data['cat_data']['id']}' class='category_block block_wrap'>
<h3 class='maintitle'>
<a class='toggle right' href='#' title="{parse expression="sprintf( $this->lang->words['toggle_cat'], IPSText::striptags( IPSText::htmlspecialchars($_data['cat_data']['name'] ) ) )"}">{parse expression="sprintf( $this->lang->words['toggle_cat'], $_data['cat_data']['name'] )"}</a> <a href="{parse url="showforum={$_data['cat_data']['id']}" seotitle="{$_data['cat_data']['name_seo']}" template="showforum" base="public"}" title='{parse expression="sprintf( $this->lang->words['view_cat'], IPSText::striptags( IPSText::htmlspecialchars($_data['cat_data']['name'] ) ) )"}'>{$_data['cat_data']['name']}</a>
</h3>

change to 

<foreach loop="categories:$cat_data as $_data">
<if test="cat_has_forums:|:is_array( $_data['forum_data'] ) AND count( $_data['forum_data'] )">
<div id='category_{$_data['cat_data']['id']}' class='category_block block_wrap'>
<h3 class='maintitle'>
<a class='toggle right' href='#' title="{parse expression="sprintf( $this->lang->words['toggle_cat'], IPSText::striptags( IPSText::htmlspecialchars($_data['cat_data']['name'] ) ) )"}">{parse expression="sprintf( $this->lang->words['toggle_cat'], $_data['cat_data']['name'] )"}</a> <a href="{parse url="showforum={$_data['cat_data']['id']}" seotitle="{$_data['cat_data']['name_seo']}" template="showforum" base="public"}" title='{parse expression="sprintf( $this->lang->words['view_cat'], IPSText::striptags( IPSText::htmlspecialchars($_data['cat_data']['name'] ) ) )"}'>{$_data['cat_data']['name']}</a>
<br>My Cat description here.
</h3>

The easiest way would be to add the description to the language files  something like $this->lang->words['cat10_description'] and create one for each cat replacing the 10 with the cat id number. Then adding  that instead of a bunch of if statements.

[Kingy]

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