Thread: Unique Fields for Each Category -- Creative Solution Needed!

Unique Fields for Each Category -- Creative Solution Needed!

Objective:
I'm customizing ClassiPress for an off-campus housing website. The client also wants a roommates section. And they want it all in the same instance of ClassiPress, meaning they don't want two separate installs.

Problem:
The custom fields are different for housing and roommates. If we simply add Roommates as an additional category then it will show the results in index.php, and single.php like it would for housing.

Possible Solutions:
I'm thinking of a way to create a secondary index.php, and single.php that caters to the roommate fields. But how to specifically get to those results is a difficult situation. Anyone with any ideas, even if it's out of the ball park is welcome to contribute. I've been stuck on this for about a week now.

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Re: Unique Fields for Each Category -- Creative Solution Needed!

This actually wouldn't be that hard. For single.php you would just use a category template. The will choose the single.php page depending on what category the user is in. For index.php you could use a php if function.

Re: Unique Fields for Each Category -- Creative Solution Needed!

You could use jQuery for this, based on their first category selection the remainder of the page loads up the custom fields required for said category.

Would be in a ajax style form, and this could easily be setup site wide for various fields per category.