Using SEF URLs and like I said I am just playing with filters.. I briefly tried this without SEF and it does not work. Oh well.. like I said I am just playing with filters.. I am posting this here for my memory and if it helps someone else cool.
I have 3 external URL menu items.
/events (/events points to a hidden menu item for JEM Eventlist.)
/category1
/category2
For reasons I do not want to explain I want to just use the 1 JEM menu item.
I have 3 categories.. you guessed it Events, Category1 and Category2
I wanted to use the built in filters
www.localhost.com/events?filter=4&filter_search=Category1
but having the browser address bar only showing:
www.localhost.com/events
So by looking at URL the filter=4 (Means Category)
This is how I did it..
In Joomla I created some External URL menu links:
Events
And gave it a link of
Code:
/events" onclick="Clear();return false;
Category1
And gave it a link of
Code:
/events" onclick="Category1();return false;
Category2
And gave it a link of
Code:
/events" onclick="Category2();return false;
Then I went and added the following to my /templatename/html/com_jem/eventslist custom override
Code:
<script type="text/javascript">
function Clear() {
document.id('filter_search').value='';
document.adminForm.submit();
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function Category1() {
document.id('filter').value='4';
document.id('filter_search').value='Category1';
document.adminForm.submit();
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function Category2() {
document.id('filter').value='4';
document.id('filter_search').value='Category2';
document.adminForm.submit();
}
</script>
This is likely not the proper way of doing this, but it works.. and this is the testing and I am guessing not the most efficient method of doing this.
