I wonder if anyone has created something like this or has seen a post about this on the boards.

I'm curious about splitting up certain link types within a category.

Let's say I have a category called "Vegetables", my category page would look like this:

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Vegetables (category)

Lettuces (Link Type #1)

Lettuce Link 1

Lettuce Link 2

Lettuce Link 3

Peppers (Link Type #2)

Pepper Link 1

Pepper Link 2

Pepper Link 3



I already have a field in the database for "type" which allows the submitter to choose a certain type which I then display next to the link, but I would love to be able to actually break these types up on the page to help categorize the site and make it a more helpful resource.

Thanks for any input someone may have!

marc

I'm not certain what you're asking for but have you set up sub-categories and sub-sub-categories?

Vegtables - Category

Lettuces - Sub-Category

Iceberg - Sub-Sub-Category

Links... 1, 2, 3, etc.

Romain - Sub-Sub-Category

Links... 1, 2, 3, etc.

Peppers - Sub-Category

Yellow - Sub-Sub-Category

Links... 1, 2, 3, etc.

Red - Sub-Sub-Category

Links... 1, 2, 3, etc.

Green - Sub-Sub-Category

Links... 1, 2, 3, etc.

With the above levels of categories when you click on Vegtables you would see:

Lettuce (#)

Peppers (#)

Then clicking on Lettuce you would see:

Iceberg (#)

Romain (#)

Then clicking on Iceberg you would see:

Link 1

Link 2

Link3

etc.

If you have set "related" categories, lets say Romain as a related category to Iceberg it will allow a direct jump from the Iceberg listings to the links under Romain. And of course set up a reciprocal related from Romain to Iceberg.

I am still in the infant stages of setting mine up but take a look under Arts. It has a related category with a reciprocal related category back to Arts. http://surelinksalot.com/directory/

Hope this helps.

Web Rat
Davez Webz
Sure Links A Lot

Actually,

What I'm referring to has nothing to do with subcategories. Let me put it a different way. Let's say I was running a service which promoted subscriptions. There are three types of subscriptions: weekly, monthly and yearly. Now, each category within the site will break the subscriptions up within the page into these three groups. For example:

Category: Magazines

Weekly

Weekly Link #1

Weekly Link #2

Weekly Links #3

Monthly

Monthly Link #1

Monthly Link #2

Monthly Link #3

Yearly

Yearly Link #1

Yearly Link #2

Yearly Link #3



From the above example, you can see how it more clearly organizes the link site into groups within each category. I've been hunting for something like this for some time now with no luck.

As I mentioned in my first post, I already have a field in my database called "Type" which creates a pull-down list for submitters to choose one of the three types mentioned above. For now, I just display their link and in parenthesis put the type of subscription they have. I'd love to be able to use that "type" field to break each category up into three sections.

If anyone has a clue how to do this, I would be grateful!

thanks,

marc