X-Cart forums - Category Pics instead of text

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- - Category Pics instead of text (https://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=7813)

All products need to go into subcategories to be viewed.

If you do put products into the main category though, whilst not visible to the customer, they can be useful as you can put products into those sections which are intended to be sold with other items and not seen by the customers on their own.

For example:
I'm doing a promotion on a Plasma TV with бё500 worth of free home cinema accessories. Because I have put the products on for free, I don't want them to be seen and have to give them to just anyone!
So I have put them in one of the main category sections so that X-Cart can pull them in from this category when setting up the 'extra product options' fields for the Plasma TV, in order for it to display the free products as a series of 'options' in a dropdown menu to the customer.

donavichi,

Nice site you have there, might even be tempted to buy something at some point in the future!

I don't suppose you have the menu code available to put on a non-x-cart site? I'm doing a lot of brochure type sites at the moment, and that menu is just what I've been looking for!

Cheers

Dave

Thanks very much.

I'm afraid I don't but have you checked out http://www.hotscripts.com/JavaScript/Scripts_and_Programs/Navigation/Menus/index.html
this is a good place to look for dHTML menus and cool java type stuff!

Regards,

Don - freshKIT

Re: just an update

Hello.
I would like to do what Mike told us in first three post of this thread(Text to graphic categories).
My server has phpMyadmin installed and I created field called category_image(Type=VARCAR (255) I set it to NULL.) in xcart_categories table.
But then I don't know what to do next.
How, where do I specify the location of images for each categories? Do I need to put some script in somewhere?
I'm no good with MySQL database. I would appriciate little help here.
Thank you.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mizzlewillz

Then I just edited the table through phpMyAdmin and for each main category I added: yourwebsite.com/store/files/Fulfillment staff/product_images/WhateverYouWant.jpg (This is where I store my images for X-Cart).

We used a modified version of this code on www.cripps-medical.com. It works great for them since they have sooo many subcategories.

We are still working on the site; it doesnt' yet view properly in some browsers FYI. Should have those kinks worked out by this weekend.

Thanks again!

I know this is an old post but this menu is just what I'm looking for. Doesn't quite work for the 4.0.12 cart I'm using now. I basically lists all the categories with the subcategories as well. Was wondering if someone could look at the code and see what needs to be altered for this newer version.

Re: just an update

I'm going to join in the ressurection of this one

I've done as suggested with the extra table in xcart_categories and entered image location in the new table for each of the categories.

Then edited categories.tpl as follows

line in question:

Code:

<FONT class="CategoriesList">[img]{$categories[cat_num].category_image}[/img]{$categories[cat_num].category}</FONT>

complete file:

Code:

{* $Id: categories.tpl,v 1.23 2004/06/24 09:53:29 max Exp $ *}

{capture name=menu}

{if $active_modules.Fancy_Categories ne ""}

{include file="`$fancycategories_config.modules_path`/fancy_categories.tpl"}

{else}

{if $config.General.root_categories eq "Y"}

{section name=cat_num loop=$categories}

<FONT class="CategoriesList">[img]{$categories[cat_num].category_image}[/img]{$categories[cat_num].category}</FONT>




{/section}

{else} {section name=cat_num loop=$subcategories}

<FONT class="CategoriesList">{$subcategories[cat_num].category}</FONT>




{/section}

{/if}

{/if}

{/capture}

{ include file="menu.tpl" dingbats="dingbats_categorie.gif" menu_title=$lng.lbl_categories menu_content=$smarty.capture.menu }

I've left the text links in for now, intending to remove them later and perhaps use a similar table trick to pull alt text for each button for SEO

problem is, instead of calling the image location, I'm just getting as imahe location '/home.php'

Am I trying to call the image incorrectly, or does it suggest a problem with the way I have set up the table?

(table contains the absolute url to the image)

Quote:

Originally Posted by mizzlewillz

Here is what I did to add a category icon instead of using the text for categories.

I created another field in xcart_categories table using phpmyadmin. I called it: category_image Type=VARCAR (255) I set it to NULL.

Then I just edited the table through phpMyAdmin and for each main category I added: yourwebsite.com/store/files/Fulfillment staff/product_images/WhateverYouWant.jpg (This is where I store my images for X-Cart).

Then in categories.tpl Between the {section name=cat_num loop=$categories} and {/section} I added this line

Code:

{$categories[cat_num].category_image}

I used category_image because that is the name of the field in my database.

I know there are probably other ways of doing this, and there are probably posts on this, I didn't even check :oops: Hopefully someone might find this useful, I imagine you can use this for the subcategories too, just modify the loop for subcategories.
PLEASE if there are any errors or comments, POST IT- I just started using X-cart about 2 months ago or something so I am not an expert by any means.

Mike

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