category / upcoming

[dollars5]

I was just wondering - the current upcoming is for all categories together - is it possible to have a category wise upcoming stories as Digg has?

Just my thoughts.

[beatniak]

Hi Dollars5, you have the link to www.mysite.com/upcoming.php?category=cat123 , right?

- digg has http://www.digg.com/view/technology/upcoming/ as main upcoming
- and links to other upcoming categories like http://www.digg.com/view/science/upcoming/

You already have this rule in your htaccess (or add it):

RewriteRule ^upcoming/category/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ upcoming.php?category=$1 [L]

so you already have something like www.mysite.com/upcoming/category/cat123

open up /templates/mytemplate/sidebar_modules/categories.tpl
And just hardcode the links to your categories (like this):
www.mysite.com/upcoming/category/cat1
www.mysite.com/upcoming/category/cat2
www.mysite.com/upcoming/category/cat3
www.mysite.com/upcoming/category/cat...

BTW... Always hardcode the links to your categories when your done adding all the categories, because that will be one database call less for ALL of you pages (w00t).

Then add this rule to your htaccess:

Redirect /upcoming/category/cat1 http://www.mysite.com/upcoming/ [L]
Redirect /upcoming/category/cat1 http://www.mysite.com/upcoming.php [L]

So the main "upcoming" pages goes to your main category page.

Does that solve your question?

EDIT:
if you don't like the link www.mysite.com/upcoming/category/cat123 but want to have a cleaner link like www.mysite.com/upcoming/cat123 , just change the htaccess line to:

RewriteRule ^upcoming/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ upcoming.php?category=$1 [L]

and you're done

[dollars5]

Thanks. Will play with this today.