CODEWITHSUNDEEP
joomla3.0
Vladimir Barlakoski
Vladimir Barlakoski

Reputation: 45

Filter articles in blog category by article id in Joomla 3

In category.php model, there is a bunch of $model->setState filters, that shapes the output of articles.

I am trying to add new setState, that will filter output of articles by given id's

$model->setState('filter.id', $params->get('id_articles', array());

but still wont filter. So i tried with direct id input:

$model->setState('filter.id', '280');

and still, the output is not filtered at all.

To be sure if this kind of filter works, i modified the model->setState for featured articles:

$model->setState('filter.featured', 'only');

and this proves that $model->setState works properly, but it won't accept filtering by article id.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 514

Answers (1)

Borche Bojcheski
Borche Bojcheski

Reputation: 30

in your populateState() method set the state to :

$articleIds = explode(',', $params->get('id_articles'));
$this->setState('filter.article_id', $articleIds);

$this->setState('filter.article_id', $articleIds);

then in your getItems() method just set the state in the model to:

$model->setState('filter.article_id', $this->getState('filter.article_id'));

and you'll get the desired result.

Upvotes: 2

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