External link as current/active

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Hey,

An external link(index.php?cl=marketplace . its a designer module on my site) isnt current/active, when its open, as categories are (for some reason), and i wonder how i can do, so it will be that?
i was thinking the work had to be done in the topcategories.tpl within these lines:
<li [{if $ocat->expanded}]class=“current”[{/if}]>
<a [{if $ocat->expanded}]class=“current”[{/if}] href="[{$ocat->getLink()}]" style=“padding-left:20px;”>[{$ocat->oxcategories__oxtitle->value}][{ if $oView->showCategoryArticlesCount() && ($ocat->getNrOfArticles() > 0) }] ([{$ocat->getNrOfArticles()}])[{/if}]</a>

? with some if statement maybe.

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will this work [{if $smarty.get.cl == “marketplace”}] class=“current” [{/if}] ?

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Thanks for the reply.
Where exacly do you want me to put it? if i put it infront or behind the <a> tag, it will look as on the picture:

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and it only appear when i click on “Markedsplads”.

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He… I don’t understand what you did there?

don`t you want the button marketplace on its page to be active? so you just need to put it inside of the <a … > of the marketplace

else if it is generated together with the categories you could try this, but i doubt that…

[{if $ocat->expanded}]class=“current”[{elseif $smarty.get.cl == “marketplace”}] [{/if}]

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But where do you want me to place the peace of code. Now i put it at the top of topcategories.tpl
[{if $smarty.get.cl == “marketplace”}] class=“current” [{/if}] [COLOR=“SeaGreen”]<–
[{oxscript include=“js/widgets/oxtopmenu.js” priority=10 }]
[{oxscript add="$(’#navigation’).oxTopMenu();"}][/COLOR]
…
and that does the same. it simply writes class=“current” on the page. doesnt look like it apply’s it
http://keandesign.dk/index.php?cl=marketplace

Edit:
Now tryed adding the extra code you added:
<li [{if $ocat->expanded}]class=“current”[{/if}]>
<a [{if $ocat->expanded}]class=“current”[{elseif $smarty.get.cl == “marketplace”}] [{/if}] href="[{$ocat->getLink()}]" style=“padding-left:20px;”>[{$ocat->oxcategories__oxtitle->value}][{ if $oView->showCategoryArticlesCount() && ($ocat->getNrOfArticles() > 0) }] ([{$ocat->getNrOfArticles()}])[{/if}]</a>
Didnt do anything.

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I added a little to what you suggested, and when “Markedsplads” is current, all the links become current, until you click on one of them, then only that one will be.:
<li [{if $ocat->expanded}]class=“current”[{/if}]>
<a [{if $ocat->expanded}]class=“current”[{elseif $smarty.get.cl == “marketplace”}] [COLOR=“Red”]class=“current” [{/if}] href="[{$ocat->getLink()}]" style=“padding-left:20px;”>[{$ocat->oxcategories__oxtitle->value}][{ if $oView->showCategoryArticlesCount() && ($ocat->getNrOfArticles() > 0) }] ([{$ocat->getNrOfArticles()}])[{/if}]</a>[/COLOR]

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if you don’t have any knowledge of html you could better leave this to someone else

you need to put it like this, don’t just blindy copy it…

<a [{if $ocat->expanded}]class=“current”[{elseif $smarty.get.cl == “marketplace”}]class=“current” [{/if}] href="[{$ocat->getLink()}]" style=“padding-left:20px;”>[{$ocat->oxcategories__oxtitle->value}][{ if $oView->showCategoryArticlesCount() && ($ocat->getNrOfArticles() > 0) }] ([{$ocat->getNrOfArticles()}])[{/if}]</a>

but i doubt that will help… you need to put it inside the link where the Marketplace link is beeing called (where ever that is) like this

<a [{if $smarty.get.cl == “marketplace”}]class=“current”[{/if}] href="…

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Ye that did the same thing, as where I put it.

ye, anyone else know where that file is located?

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why don’t you post the whole navigation code area so that someone can help you better ,)

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I have mainly changed the css with images etc. so the code should be the same as on there own side. so dont think that will be any help

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http://pastebin.com/SiYaAEBx

Line 51 is where we have added the below code. It makes all the links active/current, when you are within “marketplace”, when it should only be marketplace, that is current…:
[{elseif $smarty.get.cl == “marketplace”}] class=“current”

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ok… you also could try identify the id of the button, but you need to check it out first

[{$ocat->oxcategories__oxid->value}] < is the smarty code for it… (the id looks usually like this fadcb6dd70b9f6248efa425bd159684e)

so if you got your ox_id you could do something like this

[{elseif $smarty.get.cl == “marketplace” && $ocat->oxcategories__oxid->value == “your_id”}]

that would work

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is your marketplace module using an own template file?

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@Eternity, the long ID shown in the url, is changing i see.
@Vanilla, yes it is.

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try this:

1: edit the template of your marketplace and add “marketplace=’‘Markedplads’” to the [{include }] tag, so you gonna get something like this:

[{include file="layout/page.tpl" ..... marketplace="Markedplads"}]
(where "markedplads" is the Title of your link in the top navigation)

2: now in the topcategories.tpl you can use this:

[{if $ocat->oxcategories__oxtitle eq $marketplace}]class=“current”[{/if}]


when you are on this page (basically displaying the template of the class) there will be a new var "marketplace", which contains the title of the link.
and by checking if every link's title equals to $marketplace while being on marketplace page you will find the one, that equals and mark it as current
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awesome, its working now! :slight_smile:

I had to apply your Code, to what Eternity suggested before, then i got it working:

<a [{if $ocat->expanded}]class=“current”[{elseif $ocat->oxcategories__oxtitle eq $marketplace}] class=“current” [{/if}] href="[{$ocat->getLink()}]" style=“padding-left:20px;”>[{$ocat->oxcategories__oxtitle->value}][{ if $oView->showCategoryArticlesCount() && ($ocat->getNrOfArticles() > 0) }] ([{$ocat->getNrOfArticles()}])[{/if}]</a>

thanks :wink:

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The above used to work. I dont know if its because i updated oxid, but its not working now.
atm the code in topcategories.tpl is:

            <li [{if $ocat->expanded}]class="current"[{/if}]>
                <a [{if $ocat->expanded or $ocat->oxcategories__oxtitle eq $marketplace}]class="current" [{/if}] href="[{$ocat->getLink()}]" style="padding-left:20px;">[{$ocat->oxcategories__oxtitle->value}][{ if $oView->showCategoryArticlesCount() && ($ocat->getNrOfArticles() > 0) }] ([{$ocat->getNrOfArticles()}])[{/if}]</a>

and i have tryed with the old working one, but it dont help. home come this link, isnt working as current?
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did you ever mentioned, that marketplace is not a category?

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vanilla, index.php?cl=marketplace has to be put into external link within the category.
any ideas to how i can get it to work again? have the same problem with index.php?cl=contact . guess its only clean categories, which works fine. not when you use external link.