Would like 'listings plugin' to display subcategories ads of parent

The listings plugin was designed to show a few ads at a time that meet a basic criteria (e.g. a category, featured, seller, etc.). It wasn't designed to do more complicated searches and associated arrays.

I'm sure that you could make a copy of the plugin and make it do much more complex queries, however it would be quite a bit more complicated. Also depending on your category structure and how complex that it, could also be pretty CPU and database intensive.

There may be other solutions or options if you can give more details to what your goal is. Where are you wanting to do this (e.g. what template file/page)? Perhaps a pre-done search link might serve you better?

I modified the original to support this. This will show the listings from the given category and the FIRST level of subcategories under the given category.

Use this the same way as the original, except it is called listings_subcats AND to use show the additional subcategory listings you must provide BOTH a category AND set sub="Y", like this:

{listings_subcats limit=8 category=1 sub="Y" assign="mycatlistings"}

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You also need it to not just get featured listings featured="N". The plugin itself is set to look only for featured listings unless it's set not too.

Jason,

It does indeed work. I've tested it on two different installs. The only other thing that I can ask is are you putting anything into your template file to actually SHOW THE RESULTS? This works just like the original listings plugin as on the home page. You are assigning the results to a separate array variable. You have to actually display the data just like the original on the home page.

So in this case you would need something like:

Code:

{foreach from=$mycatlistings item="list"}
<div style="display:inline-block;width:112px;margin:10px 0 10px 5px;text-align:center;padding:2px;border:thin solid #CCC;float:left;">
      <div style="width:100px;height:100px;margin:0 auto;">
                <a href="{$list.link}">
                      <img class="img-featured" src="{$list.image}" alt="{$list.title}">
                </a>
        </div>
        <div style="width:110px;height:60px;margin:auto;text-align:center;">
              <span style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;">{$list.price}</span><br />
                    <a href="{$list.link}">
                          {$list.title|truncate:30:" ...":false:true}
                    </a>
          </div>
</div>
{/foreach}

Glad you got it all sorted!