Hello!

I'm using K2 on a couple of sites and I love it. Thank you!

On one of these sites, I have the need to hide all sub-categories that do not contain any items. My site displays content based on user permissions. Not all of my users need to see all the content, only what pertains to them. Because of this, some sub-categories will appear to be empty for some users. I need to hide sub-categories when they have zero items.

I have extensively searched this forum looking for the answer. There are a few postings here which vaguely try to explain the general idea of what needs to be done, but lack on specifics. It appears to be an easy solution, yet no one has come forward with a viable way to accomplish this. Please be aware that the vast majority of K2 users are not PHP coders, and things like "I would try to add up the values of count and test the result for >0 " do not mean much to most of us.

A user named olsen suggested something like this, which I believe is going in the right direction:

olsen wrote: Well, actually it can be done with a template override. Modifying file category.php with an if statement in the subcategory loop to check if the subcategory has items on it.

Something like:

<?php if ($subcategory->numofitems > 0) :?>
LOOP

<?php endif ;?>

I am sure that I'm not alone in requiring something like this. This could be a great addition to the core K2 functionality in future versions.

Could someone please eleborate further on this? Are there any other way to accomplish this? Any specific help (place "this" code in line ???) would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!!

Hello,

In order to make the above modification you first need to create K2 template overrides. Read here: getk2.org/documentation/tutorials/174-templating-with-k2-and-the-concepts-of-sub-templates on how overrides work.

Then you need to edit category.php file in about line 80, after the foreach is opened, and add this code

close the if statement right before the endforeach;

SOLVED!

I had the template override part done. I just needed to know where to place the code in category.php. It works beautifully. Thank you very very much!

This could be something to add to future K2 releases...

You are welcome.

to bad you guys do not subscribe a more exact way to implement this... have tried everything...

@MessageDJ

I don't think there is more exact way than this getk2.org/community/English-K2-Community/189642-Hide-Empty-Categories#189695 . If this doesn't make sense to you then probably it would be better to ask a developer to do it.