portfolio layout in posts (have code)

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Hello,
I’m new to this forum and want to thank anyone in advance for any help you could give me. I’m having an issue with turning a bunch of posts into a portfolio style layout. Moving them to portfolio broke the DB so I figured instead of moving them to portfolio I would bring portfolio layout to them. My issue is the categories. I am trying to figure out how to get the categories to show up in place of the filters. I am not a php programer but I am trying to learn so I’ hoping I selected the right code that would display the categories. I think I will start with this site to build my php knowledge. However, I would really appreciate and help that I can get to get this portfolio to act right…

thanks again!! ;D

<?php /* Template Name: Portfolio */ get_header(); ?>

• <?php _e('All'); ?>
<?php rewind_posts(); $catz = get_terms('filter', 'orderby=id&hide_empty=1'); foreach($catz as $cat_folio){ echo '
• '.$cat_folio->name.'
'; } ?>

    <br class="clear" />

<?php wp_reset_query();

// The Custom Query
$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘post’,
‘posts_per_page’ => 999,
‘order’ => ‘DESC’
);
[php]query_posts( $args );
while( have_posts() ) : the_post();
$color = substr(get_option(‘dcb_dynamic_color’), 1);
// Get the original thumbnail of the post
$src = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID), false, ‘’ );
$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
// Get the custom fields
$vimeo = get_post_meta($post->ID, “vimeo”, true);
$youtube = get_post_meta($post->ID, “youtube”, true);
// Get the filter > Category of item
$catz = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID,‘filter’);
foreach($catz as $cat) {
$currcat = $cat->slug;
$catname = $cat->name;
break;
}
?>[/php]

<?php get_post_class(); ?>" id="post-item-<?php echo the_ID(); ?>">

<!-- Image Post -->
<div class="shadowBox_grid_3">
	<?php
    // 
    if($vimeo) {
    ?>
    <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/<?php echo $vimeo; ?>?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=<?php echo $color; ?>" width="280" height="200" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>
    <?php } 
    elseif($youtube) { ?>
    <iframe width="280" height="200" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/<?php echo $youtube; ?>?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
    <?php } 
    else { ?>
	<div class="hover"><a href="<?php echo $src[0]; ?>" rel="prettyPhoto[]" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><span></span><?php
                                    $attr = array('class' => "", "alt" => get_the_title());
                                    the_post_thumbnail('third_size',$attr);
                            ?></a></div>
	<?php } ?>
</div>

<h4 class="gfont center"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo the_title(); ?></a></h4>
<div class="center"><em><?php // Get the Genre
			$filters_terms = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, 'category');
			if(!empty($filter_terms)){
				foreach($filter_terms as $term){
				  echo '<a href="'.get_term_link($term->slug, 'category').'">'.$term->name.'</a> ';
				}
			}
			?></em></div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

</div>
<!-- /Content of MAIN -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>