I have my photo gallery set up with the following categories:

Category 1
---- Sub 1.1
---- Sub 1.2
Category 2
---- Sub 2.1
---- Sub 2.2
---- Sub 2.3

Is there any way that I tell my {exp:gallery:entries /} tag to display all images in “Category 1”, sub categories inclusive?  Say, the latest ten images in either Sub 1.1 or Sub 1.2?

Thanks!

Mark - I don’t think so. I asked a similar question a few weeks back when I was setting up my galleries. I ended up having to create a weblog for my photo gallery (arrrgh!) - which, when dealing with a lot of images is a real pain.

mdesign is right- categories in the gallery are handled differently than they are by default in the weblog.  In the weblog, a child is also assigned to the parent.  In the gallery, that’s not the case.  So using tags, a top level cat in the gallery is only going to show the entries assigned to it- not to its children.

I needed a workaround to this and putting my gallery in a weblog didn’t seem right, so I wrote an extension to allow children entries.  all you do is add the attribute ‘children="true”’ to your {exp:gallery:entries /} tag and it should then grab any children categories.

First, let me complement you.

Second, let me tear out what little hair I have left wondering where this was a couple weeks ago.

Thanks, Mark.

Mark is an extension monster.

EE is the real monster that can change to whatever you need with such a great module/extension/plugin interface.

Trying to get this to work in my gallery but i think user error must be hampering me.

I have installed the extension in /system/extensions and enabled it in the Extensions manager control panel.

Then in my gallery category template I have:

However it is still only showing images from the selected category and not any sub categories. Any keen eyes spot the error? Using EE 1.5.1, cheers Kenny

Can you try it without any other attributes, just the gallery= and children=?  Thanks.

Here is the code I used, that worked properly:

Hi Mark,
i tried what you suggested but it does something very odd when i add the category variable.
It seems to default to the first top level category I created (no matter what category is in the URL), it also displays a random selection of images!

Not sure what is going on there, I think I will try to create a new gallery with default code and see what happens,

thanks for your quick reply, Kenny

And have you tried it with just the gallery= and children= attributes, nothing else?  When you did pass in a category, was it a parent category?  Were there children categories below the passed in category?

Alright, I dug a little deeper and you’re going to have to assign a category= attribute, because I’m not sure where in EE the cat is parsed from the URL.  So try it with just the gallery=, children= and category= attributes.  Also make sure that the category you choose has children categories.  Finally make sure that there are photos in the children categories more recent that those in the parent category (or you’ll only see parent photos when sorting by date descending.

Hi Mark,
just thought you would like to know that with debugging turned on an error appears when looking at a sub category page. It only appears for categories that have no children. The error does not appear on any other pages.

The error is:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /blahblah/extensions/ext.gallery_entries_children.php on line 116

cheers Kenny

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