Hi,

Flexicontent may use the same categories, but it seems likely that the page detection is going to work differently (e.g. if com_flexicontent is involved) which may upset the internal workings of Chameleon. e.g. before trying to determine the category of an article, it checks to see if it's on an article page. If it's a flexicontent page then chances are that test will fail.

Could you please try the following in order to get some more info about Flexicontent that will help to identify the categories?

1 - download the free version of MetaMod from this site
2 - create a new MetaMod module, assign it to ALL pages and to a valid module position
3 - in the MetaMod, turn on "advanced debug" mode
4 - view some flexicontent pages e.g. articles and/or categories, and take a note of the output from the MetaMod for each page. This will give some important info including some PHP code that can help to put together the "recipe" for your situation
5 - paste the PHP code from each of the pages into a forum reply here, with a note of which type of page it was on.

Thanks,
Stephen

Hi,

It's going to be easy to get this working on Category pages, but I'll need a little more info to get things working on Item pages (where the item is in a particular category).

To detect Flexicontent category pages in Chameleon, you should be able to use this in the PHP section of the Chameleon rule (not in the Action section):

‫if (
  $option == 'com_flexicontent'
  and $view == 'category'
  and $jinput->get('isflexicontent') == 'yes'
  and $jinput->get('flexi_callview') == 'category'
  and $jinput->get('format') == 'html'
) return true;

To detect a particular category, e.g. category 79, use this:

‫if (
  $option == 'com_flexicontent'
  and $view == 'category'
  and $jinput->get('isflexicontent') == 'yes'
  and $jinput->get('flexi_callview') == 'category'
  and $jinput->get('cid') == '79'
  and $jinput->get('format') == 'html'
) return true;

Do you also wish to detect any Flexicontent articles that are in a particular category? If so, let me know and I'll look into that further. It will likely just require a simple database call.

Best regards,
Stephen

Hi Magj,

when you talk about "categories" here, do you mean:

1 - category pages
or
2 - article pages, where the article is in those categories

or both?

Number (1) is easy. Number (2) would require some more investigation. Please let me know.

Thanks,
Stephen

Hi again Stephen,

Sorry for bumping, but is there any update on this feature support?

Thanks in advance
Regards

I had to uninstall flexi-content as I need this more. :-(  Maybe the two teams could create a plug-in to sync up?