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[1aB]

Hi all,

I just implemented this as a plugin:

Hide Empty Categories cleans up the category list on the thumbnail pages by hiding those categories that are empty, regardless whether they really are empty or whether the current user just sees them as empty. Benefit is to avoid end-user confusion with empty categories when they do not have access to anything within them.

Potentially this plugin may conflict with themes that customize theme_display_cat_list(), as that is what I actually customized... well... left out from. Hope the implementation is clean enough.

Roland

[Αndré]

Well done. Am I right that the modification is to comment out

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           $params = array(
                    '{CAT_TITLE}' => $category[0],
                    '{CAT_THUMB}' => $category['cat_thumb'],
                    '{CAT_DESC}' => $category[1],
            );
            echo template_eval($template_noalb, $params);?

If so, I'd suggest to add a new plugin hook (actually a hidden config value should be enough). That way this plugin works for all themes.


Moving thread to plugin contributions board.


I'll add the plugin to the download section and to the plugin page later.

[1aB]

Right, it strictly speaking consists only of leaving out the commented part. All the rest is original Coppermine code.
Indeed the modification is so minimal that it could also be a mainstream config option.

About plugin hooks, I suppose that makes sense, because I was acutally searching for which of the hooks I would need to utilize for this, just to spot that there wasn't one... ;-)

[Cyrolancer]

Just commenting out

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echo template_eval($template_noalb, $params);

part seems working to me.

[StuartDowling]

That plugin worked a treat - thank you 

[AK_CCM]

The plugin works very well - thanks for contributing. It would be great if any further version displays empty categories which contains subcategories. Because I'm using some nested categories and now the parent categories are hidden.

Regards, Andreas