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- Pablo Querol
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Difference between categories and sections

Posted 18 years 2 weeks ago
- Could someone please explain it to me? I come from PHP-Nuke where this difference was not made.
  
  Thanks!
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- James Spencer
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Re: Difference between categories and sections

Posted 18 years 2 weeks ago
- Sections and Categories are basically the same apart from Sections being the root areas with categories as their sub types.
  
  For example,
  
  In Joomla! you have the Section News.
  
  But in the News Section, you have categories such as Latest News, Website News, Muffin News etc...
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- Pablo Querol
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Re: Difference between categories and sections

Posted 18 years 2 weeks ago
- Thanks for the answer James, but I still don't understand.
  
  Taking a sports website. News about Basketball would be a section or a category?
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- James Spencer
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Re: Difference between categories and sections

Posted 18 years 2 weeks ago
- It could be either.
  
  I would have Basketball as a Category in the News section
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- Pablo Querol
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Re: Difference between categories and sections

Posted 18 years 2 weeks ago
- I'm quite lost sincerely, I see no diference.
  
  So If for example, I want just to make difference between news that are about different styles of music, such as Hip Hop, Classic Music, Gospel, etc, are they categories or sections??
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- James Spencer
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Re: Difference between categories and sections

Posted 18 years 2 weeks ago
- Music would be the section whereas Hip Hop would be a category
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- Pablo Querol
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Re: Difference between categories and sections

Posted 18 years 2 weeks ago
- James S! wrote:
  Music would be the section whereas Hip Hop would be a category
  
  Thanks James!
  
  And if the site is only about music, should it still have a section? :-[
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- Bob Ateah
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Re: Difference between categories and sections

Posted 18 years 2 weeks ago
- Pablo Querol wrote:
  James S! wrote:
  Music would be the section whereas Hip Hop would be a category
  
  Thanks James!
  
  And if the site is only about music, should it still have a section? :-[
  
  You cannot have Categories without having a Section.
  Think of a Section as a container for Categories (at least thats the way that I see it).
  
  I hope that this helps you.
  
  Cheers!
- Last Edit: 18 years 2 weeks ago by Bob Ateah.
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  After your question is solved, please Edit your original post and choose the Solved message icon, thank you!
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- Pablo Querol
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Re: Difference between categories and sections

Posted 18 years 2 weeks ago
- It does Roland!
  
  And to finish with:
  Does a section have to have a category?
  
  Thanks James and thanks Roland!
  OMG, this is a main change from PHP-NUke :-X
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- GollumX
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Re: Difference between categories and sections

Posted 18 years 2 weeks ago
- Every content item must belong to both a section and category. You can always just have them the same like so
  section>categery>article
  basketball news>basketball news>article about basketball
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