Display category description when listing questions of that category

Question

How can I display the category description when listing all questions from that category - I mean after clicking on a link to that category.

I would think this should be simple (and it makes great sense in my oppinion), but I haven't found it so far.

Thanks!

Answer 1

1. Create new plugin (e.g. qa-plugin/category-desc)

2. Upload qa-plugin.php under qa-plugin/category-desc

<?php

if (!defined('QA_VERSION')) {

  header('Location: ../../');

  exit;

}

qa_register_plugin_overrides('qa-cd-overrides.php');

3. Upload qa-cd-overrides.php under qa-plugin/category-desc

<?php

if (!defined('QA_VERSION')) {

  header('Location: ../../');

  exit;

}

function qa_q_list_page_content($questions, $pagesize, $start, $count, $sometitle, $nonetitle, $navcategories, $categoryid, $categoryqcount, $categorypathprefix, $feedpathprefix, $suggest, $pagelinkparams=null, $categoryparams=null, $dummy=null)

{

  $qa_content = qa_q_list_page_content_base($questions, $pagesize, $start, $count, $sometitle, $nonetitle, $navcategories, $categoryid, $categoryqcount, $categorypathprefix, $feedpathprefix, $suggest, $pagelinkparams, $categoryparams, $dummy);

  if(count($navcategories) && isset($categoryid)) {

    $catinfo = $navcategories[$categoryid];

    if(isset($catinfo['content']) && !empty($catinfo['content']))

      //$qa_content['title'] = $qa_content['title'].'<small style="display:block;margin-top:10px;">'.$catinfo['content'].'</small>'; // for Bootstrap

      $qa_content['title'] = $qa_content['title'].'<small style="font-size:65%;color:#777;display:block;margin-top:10px;">'.$catinfo['content'].'</small>'; // for pure HTML4 / HTML5

  }

  return $qa_content;

}

Comments

I have no idea what I did there, but it worked perfectly! Thank you so much! I really have to learn php...

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Good day. By this method in the source code is obtained:

<title>"Title"+"description category"+" - "name q2a site"</title>

How to make:

<title>"Title"+" - "name q2a site"</title>
<description>"description category"</description>

Answer 2

hi,
its to easy to
1.
Add bellow  code in "qa_include/pages/default.php" BEFORE "return $qa_content";
<pre>
 if ($countslugs) {
                    $qa_content['categorydescription']=$categories[$categoryid]['content'];
                }
</pre>
2.
Call bellow Own Function for category Description in " main()"  after $this->page_title_error() in qa_include/qa_theme_base.php
<pre>
 if(isset($this->content['categorydescription'])){
                                $this->category_description();
                                }
</pre>
3. Describe function in same file qa_include/qa_theme_base.php after "public function page_title_error()"
<pre>
 public function category_description()
              {
                    $this->output('<div class="qa-q-list-item"><p>');
                      echo $this->content['categorydescription'];
                    $this->output('</p></div>');         
              }
</pre>

Comments

Modifying core is easy, but have the trouble to redo this every time core is updated. You can use this:
https://github.com/arjunsuresh/categorydescription

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PS: The category description used is to be supplied separately as it supports HTML data as description.

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Hello, it's not working correctly. After save description for category on site I have shown blank page, without any stored data. Can You check this, please? :)

Also, one more - I need to show category description on question page for category, as widget the best, not on top of question list as asked earlier :)