[TYPO3-ttnews] AND for selecting categories?

[Christian Lerrahn]

Hi Christian,
> Christian: You have a very optimistic view onto that problem.
> 
> Now, I found a solution, but it is not very elegant, I think.
> 
> I did not find any other way than creating additional MM-Tables for the 
> categories as you cannot AND select within one MM-Table. You just will 
> not get any results at all.
> 
> But if you have a better way to code that, please let me know!
> 
> I'm very curious! :-)

I just guessed without doing any research on it. So I might be wrong. I
don't have the time to look into that right now. If I find the time to
check, I will and let you know then.

Christian

> Christian Lerrahn schrieb:
> > Hi Christian,
> > hi Oliver,
> >>> I want to select more than one category in a LIST/LATEST view, but the 
> >>> different categories should be AND-connected, so that only news get 
> >>> displayed that have ALL of the categories.
> >>>
> >>> Is there any way to do this?
> >>>
> >>> Greetings,
> >>>
> >>> Christian
> >> This has been on the wishes list for quite a while now... I would also 
> >> very much need such a feature.
> >>
> >> I must say that I looked at the code and... well it's not obvious at 
> >> all, because of the kind of relations. But on the other hand, isn't it 
> >> an interseting challenge for our hackers around there?
> > 
> > That shouldn't be too hard to code. You could just use the hook
> > selectConfHook, eliminate the part of the where clause in the array and
> > replace it by a new one. If you don't mind making it inefficient you
> > could even just add the new clause leaving the old one because they won't
> > contradict. Then about 5 lines of code would probably be enough... :-)
> > 
> > Christian
> > 


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