Excluding a category from Recently Added?

[The Great Hitoki]

Originally Posted by omegatron

Okay a cat variable would be whichever category you do not want photos not showing from in the recent uploads etc.

Say you have a cat that has a numeric id of 507 and want to exclude those photos you would put 507 in there.

Ya thats what I thought, but for some reason it does not work for me. This is what I have in my FTP file pp-inc.php:

$catquery = ""; $cattype = "c";
$exclude_cat="AND cat != '520,521,523,524'";

if ($rcols < 0) $rcols = 4;
if ($rcols > 12) $rcols = 4;

Any thoughts on what may be wrong?

[Chuck S]

$exclude_cat="AND cat NOT IN (520,521,523,524)";

[The Great Hitoki]

Nope, that also did not work. I copied and pasted it just like you have it and then saved and uploaded the file but I still have the same problem. I just had photopost installed for me about two days ago so could it be that I have a version that needs a different line of code? Im sorry for all this trouble.

[The Great Hitoki]

I was thinking on why this may not work and discussing it with some of my admin. One reason we thought up is maybe there are not enough pics and teh gallery hasnt cycled though them enough yet. Is there a certain amount of time the gallery has to be up before this would work?

[cossa]

What if you wanted to exclude ALL personal photo albums from showing up in Recently added?

[Chuck S]

AND cattype != 'a'

[hani]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

$exclude_cat="AND cat NOT IN (520,521,523,524)";

Does that work on 5.20? as either it doesnt or I made a mistake somewhere.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

regards

Hani

[Chuck S]

No there is no exclude cat variable

If you have done the line above then you simply need to add to the query the $exclude_cat variable right before the ORDER clause

[hani]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

No there is no exclude cat variable

If you have done the line above then you simply need to add to the query the $exclude_cat variable right before the ORDER clause

can you please explain this, as its all greek to me

thanx

[hani]

please help

[hani]

ok, I guess then that it is undoable in 5.2; is it?

[Chuck S]

You might want to see if anyone will assist in the unsupported mod forum

[hani]

No thanx
I lost intrest, but was woundering as you told me to add something that should make it work.

If this was available before then it should not be removed as we upgrade, upgrades come with exstra features, not less.

Excuse my stupidness, but we paid for the product, we were forwarded to other places for support from people who liked the product (photopostdev.com) and now they dont exist, and I think I know why.

Thanx again and all the best.

[Chuck S]

This was never a feature of the program. There was an unused variable in queries called $exclude_cat but it was something we never used. As seen by this thread and many others its a hack

[gopherhockey]

Has anyone gotten the final answer to this question? I'd like to exclude member galleries from the most recent photos area...

Woudl be nice if this was a feature add to the program, but I'd settle for a hack.

[Chuck S]

well the variable above you stick in display_gallery function in pp-inc.php the cats you dont want displayed go in there

$exclude_cat="AND cat NOT IN (520,521,523,524)";

The other piece of the question is to make sure the variable is inserted into the queries properly

Just make sure its before any ORDER statements ON THE QUERIES