David Raynes

Hello Dave, I have been attempting to use your "category depth" plugin to produce the 'Hierarchical Drop Down' and I'll be damned, but it just doesn't work!

No errors, the <MTPerlScript> just doesn't execute. Here is the template that I am using (it needed to modified from your slightly so that it would validate as XHTML[strict]):

<div class="search-box">
 <script type="text/javascript" src="<$MTBlogURL$>quicknav.js"></script>
  <form action="" id="pulldowncats"><div>
   <label for="pulldowncats" accesskey="5"><strong>Archives:</strong></label><br />
   <select class="quickselect" name="fieldname" onchange="openDir( this.form )">
    <option value="">&nbsp;--&nbsp;Select Category&nbsp;--&nbsp;</option>
    <MTSubCategories>
    <option value="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>" class="gry_bck">
     <MTPerlScript>
       print "--;"x"<$MTCategoryDepth$>"."<$MTCategoryLabel$>";
     </MTPerlScript>
     </option>
    <MTSubCatsRecurse>
    </MTSubCategories>
   </select></div>
  </form>
</div>

Do you have any ideas? Thanks for all of the great plugins .. I am using several of them right now!

-Matt

Posted by: Stomper_Guy at February 22, 2005 01:26 AM

Way to go David . . . this will be very helpful for the site I'm developing, to organize and distinguish subcategories. However, it seems that the form code only recognizes the menu options if the particular page content on which the form code resides exists at a level where there would be at least one subcategory underneath that page.

For example, place the code on the main blog page, and the form code shows all categories and subcategories properly. However, place that same form code on an archive index page, and when you navigate to a category archive page - and that category has subcategories - all you see in the dropdown list are those particular subcategories, no categories at an equivalent or other level. If you navigate to a category archive page - and that category does NOT have subcategories, you see nothing within the dropdown list.

My problem is I want to place this dropdown list on all my pages, including archive pages, so users can go to other archive pages from wherever they are at that time.

I looked at your archive pages and didn't see the list on any of those pages, so I figured you might not have considered this issue, since the list is only residing at the main blog page level on your site.

I tried entering some absolute page pointers in the option value areas, but that didn't provide a solution. Weird thing is, I'm using Elise Bauer's month pulldown list code for monthly archives and those lists display properly on any page, so I'm assuming there's an issue either within the code particular to displaying subcategories, or there's some other fix that I'm too brain-dead to figure out.

I would appreciate it if you know what to do in this situation, or if there are any others out there who have employed David's solution who could lead me in the right direction.

Thanks!

Mark

Posted by: MadDog at May 4, 2005 04:17 PM