I need help on this wordpress category template

[TopherX]

I want to make a category template for this new site:

http://www.archos-video.com

I want the template to first call a page with the same name as the category, then rewind and call the posts in that category. That way each category will have a unique introduction paragraph controlled by a page in the WP admin.

Here's what I have so far:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="contentwrap">
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/featured.php");?>
    <div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
              <div class="navigation_small">
              
            <div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
            <div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
              
               </div>
        <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

      
        <h2 class="pagetitle">Category: <?php single_cat_title(); ?></h2>
     

<?php $category = get_the_category();?> 
<?php query_posts('pagename=$category->category_nicename'); ?>

    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
        <div class="post">
                <h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/<?php echo($post->post_name) ?> " rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
                <small><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></small>

                <div class="entry">
                    <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
                </div>

                <h6 class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></h6>

            </div>

        <?php endwhile; ?>

    <?php endif; ?>


<?php rewind_posts(); ?>

<?php query_posts('category_name='.$category); ?>
        
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
        <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
        <div class="post">
                <h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/<?php echo($post->post_name) ?> " rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
                <small><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></small>

<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/<?php echo($post->post_name) ?>" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('playbutton<?php echo($post->post_name) ?>','','<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/playbutton_flip.png',1)"><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/playbutton.png" name="playbutton<?php echo($post->post_name) ?>" width="150" height="150" border="0" id="playbutton" style="float:right;padding-left:10px;" /></a>

                <div class="entry">
                    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                </div>

                <h6 class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></h6>

            </div>

        <?php endwhile; ?>

        <div class="navigation_small">
            <div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
            <div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
        </div>

    <?php endif; ?>

    </div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Basically I'm getting nothing right now...lol

http://www.archos-video.com/category/captain-euchre/


Now I know my php skills suck so I'm hoping one of you will have the answer for this.

First I I'm pretty sure I have a problem in the query of the page:

<?php $category = get_the_category();?> 

<?php query_posts('pagename=$category->category_nicename'); ?>

Second I think I'm messing up the query for the category

<?php rewind_posts(); ?>

<?php query_posts('category_name='.$category); ?>
        
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
        <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

I'm really just shooting blanks at this point so any idea will be welcome.

[TopherX]

Ok I figured it out...

you have to concatenate the query first.

<?php
$category = get_the_category();
$catslugger= $category[0]->category_nicename;
$query= 'pagename=' . $catslugger;
query_posts($query);
?>

and

<?php
$query= 'category_name=' . $catslugger;
query_posts($query);
?>

I'm starting to get the hang of this.