Categories not filtering with Low Seg2Cat

Question

I am having some problem with the Low Seg2Cat extension. I am trying to load all entries for a particular category using the third URI segment. For instance: '/specials/category/europe'. This is the current basic markup:

{exp:channel:entries channel="specials" orderby="date" category_group="8" category=segment_3_category_id}
<p>{entry_date format='%j%S %M %Y'}</p>
<p>{specials_excerpt}</p>
{/exp:channel:entries}

However, all this outputs at the moment is any item that has been categorised. For instance, items categorised as 'Europe' or as 'USA'. Uncategorised items do not appear. Moreover, any value entered into segment 3 returns this same list.

I am currently using (and have just upgraded to) EE 2.9.2 before developing this page. Low Seg2Cat is in its latest version, 2.8.1.

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Your code should look like this (note the end of the opening channel:entries tag - you were missing a combination of quotes and curly braces):

{exp:channel:entries channel="specials" orderby="date" category="{segment_3_category_id}"}
    <p>{entry_date format='%j%S %M %Y'}</p>
    <p>{specials_excerpt}</p>
{/exp:channel:entries}

I've also omitted the category_group parameter, since it is overridden by the category parameter.

Be sure that your selected category group is chosen in the Low Seg2Cat extension settings.

I should also add that if you set your category URL indicator to "category", then you wouldn't need Low Seg2Cat in this specific case (and you could remove the category parameter entirely) - the URL you showed would automatically load all entries in the "europe" catgeory.

EE 2.9.2 has phased out the use of nesting multiple curly braces

This is not true. You only omit the braces inside of conditionals (and even then, sometimes you may still need to use quoted parsed variables there). Everywhere else, variables need braces around them in order to be parsed and used.

Answer 2

You need to surround segment_3_category_id in parethesis and {}

category="{segment_3_category_id}"