I'd like to return entries from a specific channel, but what i'd like to do is ONLY show entries from a child category first, but if there are none, then show entries from the child's parent category.
Is this possible?
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1At the point in your template where you want to loop through the entries, do you already have BOTH the child and parent category IDs? E.g., hard-coded, or via an embed variable?– Jay FSep 9, 2013 at 16:35
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The approach in @RobsonSobral's answer is a good/simple one--he accounts for the case where you know only the child category ID.– Jay FSep 9, 2013 at 17:09
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Put your loop on a embed and call it at this way:
{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="1" category="X"}
{if no_results}
{exp:query
sql="SELECT parent_id
FROM exp_categories
WHERE cat_id = X"
}
{embed="pages/.category_loop" cat_id="{parent_id}"}
{/exp:query}
{/if}
{embed="pages/.category_loop" cat_id="X"}
{/exp:channel:entries}
