Hi all,


I'm Kind of new to K2 and I wonder if someone could lend me a little hand.

On the default category_item.php view, there is a call to $item->featured.
Even for items marked as featured on the back-end, the call always returns 0.
So I'm unable to display at the front-end which items are featured.

Should $item->featured return if the article is marked as featured or not?
Am I doing something wrong?

K2 version: 2.4.1


Thanks in advance,
Sam

I found what was going on reading the source code lines.

The main glue was found at components/com_k2/models/itemlist.php lines 200-207.

//Set featured flag
if ($task == 'category' || empty($task)) {
if (JRequest::getInt('featured') == '0') {
$query .= " AND i.featured != 1";
} else if (JRequest::getInt('featured') == '2') {
$query .= " AND i.featured = 1";
}
}
This code shows that there is a post variable called featured and that it's value changes part of the query sent to the database.

After reading that line of code, I took a careful look at the category parameters and found:
"Featured items" under "Category item layout" -> Other layout options.
This select offers 3 options to choose from:
<option value="0">Hide</option>
<option value="1">Show</option>
<option value="2" selected="selected">Show only featured items</option>

Properly setting it will provide the desired output.

K2 has some excellent features, but it's too redundant when it comes to it's parameters, making it unnecessarily complicated.


Cheers,
Sam