Category Dropdown Filter & showCat Together?

[jeremyt]

Hi,

When I try to use $showCat="11|10"; it works, but it disables the dropdown filter on my calendar.

Here's how I'm adding this:

<?php include("plugins/filter.php"); ?>

<?php
$TOC=1;
$showCat="7|11|10";
require ("calendar.php");
?>

Any advice?

Thanks!!
Jeremy

[Brian]

This really shouldn't be happening.

Can you provide a link to your page?

[jeremyt]

Sure, this is my paramter:
$showCat="7|11|10";

This is effectively filtering out category 12 in the default view but now the Filter dropdown control doesn't work.
http://www.redeemerhoboken.com/calendar/events.php

Thanks again,
Jeremy

[ve9gra]

That's normal. The filter uses $showCat to display a single category at a time... if you have $showCat defined in your code, it will override anything else (including the filter selection).

There's an easy way to set a default selection, and let the filter override it. Simply set $showCat this way

PHP Code:

if((!isset($_REQUEST['showCat'])) or ($_REQUEST['showCat']=="")) { $showCat="7|11|10"; } 


You should note that the filter will still show the category that you wanted to hide... I have a modified version of the filter plugin that respects your selection and only shows categories that you want. If you are interested in my plugin, use the link below to contact me.