thank you

How can you make the file under new category menu which is photography, appear in the admin area so that it can be delete and rename just like the menu item under the first main menu.

I dont know what you mean by that. Photography appears in Admin on my xcart just like any other category.

vixnfox

Could this method be used in the regular categories menu? I recently installed Fancy Categories and it isn't working properly. I even tried it on 2 different servers with the same results.

I just want the site to have a simple + and - categories menu.

So could I use the code here in the categories.tpl somewhere?

Thank You,

Alex
4.1 Gold

Hi Alex,
I am not an expert by any means when it comes to the innards of X-cart. I made this menu because I needed it. However, there is no reason why you cannot "filter" any category in any menu by testing for the value $categories[cat_num].category or categoryid for EXclusion, and testing for INclusion in your own menu as I did in photomenu.tpl
Apart from this suggestion, Im sorry I cannot be of more help.

vixnfox

thank you vixnfox.

Alex

good job vix! im glad u came to share it

Re: How to Add a Simple Custom Menu
 

Hey vixnfox, who is hosting your website it is really fast, and looks good too. Mine is as slow as a decade of sundays. Have you done anything special to speed it up? I am down under like you and confused about who else hosts IN AUS.

Thanx
laurieblake

Re: How to Add a Simple Custom Menu
 

Hi laurie
it is hosted through
http://www.netregistry.com.au/
they are based in melbourne I think. Nothing special has been done, AND at the moment its running as php based. You get a top quality support team, phpMyAdmin and all sorts of goodies. I simply FTPd the shop from home as is, changed config.php and there it is. Glad you like the speed. The layout and colours were modded by me.

vixnfox

Re: How to Add a Simple Custom Menu
 

Wow vinfox, that is who is hosting mine! I resell their hosting packages & my client's websites run quite well on their hosting but my shop is just sooo sloooow. They just shrug and blame x-cart for being so slow. But yours is many times faster than mine. My site is reasonable between 11pm and 7am. Then obviously it is over utilised to the extent that it is unusable. That is even following all the recommended optimisations and even with just a blank shop with no images and one product.
I'll keep working on them to move me onto another box.

Thanks for your reply.
Laurie