Hi Rooney,

I haven't used Zoo myself. Is it free to download so I can take a look at it?

If not, then can you provide a URL of a site with Zoo installed, preferably with SEF URLs disabled, so I can see the URL structure and how it corresponds to the different pages on the site?

Thanks,
Stephen

Thanks for the URLs. These look pretty straight forward.

If you want to display modules for certain items, based on item id, I'd do this:

if ( $option == 'com_zoo' and $view == 'item' ) {
  $item_id = JRequest::getInt('item_id',0);
  if ($item_id == 49) return XXX;
  if ($item_id == 50) return YYY;
  if ($item_id == 51) return ZZZ;
}

Replace XXX, YYY and ZZZ with the module ids to be shown with items 49, 50 and 51 respectively. You can of course add more rules, or use less, as appropriate for your site.

If you want to show modules based on category id, when viewing items (i.e. show a module on all item view pages where the item is in a certain category), you could use this:

if ( $option == 'com_zoo' and $view == 'item' ) {
  $category_id = JRequest::getInt('category_id',0);
  if ($category_id == 83) return XXX;
}

Note that the category that this picks up is the "last" (parent) category that the item is in. So with multi-level hierarchies you don't get direct access to the "grandparent" categories. You could get these from the database if you really need them.

If you want to show modules only on category list pages, according to the category being displayed, you could use this:

if ( $option == 'com_zoo' and $view == 'category' ) {
  $category_id = JRequest::getInt('category_id',0);
  if ($category_id == 83) return XXX;
}

Best regards,
Stephen

p.s. all of these rules will work just the same when SEF URLs are turned on. It was just easier to see what the values should be, with SEF turned off.

Rooney wrote:

I will try it and post the results here.

Works like a charme ;-). Thanks again!

Rooney

Fantastic! A solution to my problem
Where should I add those lines to my site?

Cheers,
Matt.

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the speedy reply, much appreciated.

So I've read up and installed the MetaMod module and followed the steps you suggested, with the following PHP in play:

but all I seem to be getting is  blank box? I've gone through disabling a couple different extensions including advanced module manager to see whether that would help but to no avail.

Just to note, MetaMod shows up in the correct position when enabled, module '95' is set to the desired position, disabled and is not assigned to any menu. Don't know if I've missed something?

Many Thanks,

Matt.