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Cats into Featured?

Seems a number of folks would like to have a categories section on the front page similar to the featured products. Searching would suggest no answers. As this works with individual products, is there a way of coding to add cat's to the featured prod's as an alternative way?

If you're watching Xcart, it is a feature that should be included:wink: :-)

Denis.

Re: Cats into Featured?

in skin1/customer/main/welcome.tpl,
before the featured_products.tpl include,
add

Code:

{include file="customer/main/categories_welcome.tpl"}

<br />

create a new file called categories_welcome.tpl in skin1/customer/main
with (change number of columns accordingly)

Code:

{capture name=dialog}

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

<tr>

        <td>

<table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1">

<tr>

{assign var="width" value=20}

{foreach from=$categories item=ca name=cats}

{if $smarty.foreach.cats.index is div by 4}

        </tr>

        <tr>

{/if}

<td width="{$width}%" class="PListCell">

<div>

<a href="home.php?cat={$ca.categoryid}" class="VertMenuItems"><img src="{if $current_category.icon_url}{$current_category.icon_url}{else}{$xcart_web_dir}/image.php?id={$ca.categoryid}&amp;type=C{/if}" /></a>

</div>

<div>

<font class="CategoriesList"><a href="home.php?cat={$ca.categoryid}" class="VertMenuItems">{$ca.category}</a></font><br />

</div>

</td>

{/foreach}

</table>

        </td>

</tr>

</table>

{/capture}

{include file="dialog.tpl" title=$lng.lbl_categories content=$smarty.capture.dialog extra='width="100%"'}

it may contain a few bugs (i found one where if you have category images displayed on the side menu they will all display the same icon once you click on a category), but it should get you started

a sample image of it can be found in the attached thumbnail

Re: Cats into Featured?

You are a star sir. Many thanks:-)

Exactly as we wanted it except I can get only my modified default icon for "no picture". I modded this to 1px sqr so that with a border of 1px it looked like a "bullet". This is all that is showing although everything else works a treat. All the cat's have picture icons. See http://www.mercersfurniture.co.uk/home.php to see what I mean. I have read the code over and over and tried various things but nothing I have changed, except the column numbers, has brought up the icons:? , any ideas?

Again, many thanks.

Denis.

Re: Cats into Featured?

if you dont want the images, remove

Code:

<div>

<a href="home.php?cat={$ca.categoryid}" class="VertMenuItems"><img src="{if $current_category.icon_url}{$current_category.icon_url}{else}{$xcart_web_dir}/image.php?id={$ca.categoryid}&amp;type=C{/if}" /></a>

</div>

Re: Cats into Featured?

Sorry, I do want the actual category icons, the photographs, which as I read the code it should produce, but I am not getting these. Basically, I want it to look just like the featured products. The actual category icons have always been a bugbear to me as they never seem to show anywhere unless you actually click on the Category itself although they are set to show elsewhere too. Maybe a connection here, I don't know?

Showing the actual category icons really would be super.

Sorry if I misled you there:oops:

Denis.

Re: Cats into Featured?

Strange:? , if I add some gobbledegook (**!) to the front of your <img src=> part of the code so I can see the image ref on shop front, it shows:

<**!img src="/image.php?id=375&type=C" />
PINETUM Furniture

The actual icon for this cat (info via properties) is "/icon.php?categoryid=375&rand=2132004131"

"PINETUM Furniture" is the Cat title.

Does this sound right?

Denis.

Re: Cats into Featured?

inebriate, I can't thank you enough for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D/

I'm not finished playing with the category images yet, but just putting the code in seems to be exactly what I've been looking for.

Re: Cats into Featured?

how do i make the category name and number of products in department show?

Re: Cats into Featured?

i have the images set pretty much the way I want. However the links are invisible then turn red...I assume I can fix this in CSS right?

Re: Cats into Featured?

Ok I am looking through my css...and I cannot locate the code that would operate changing the text in the categories welcome section from white to red

Re: Cats into Featured?

Just a note to say this mod appears to work correctly in 4.1.10. This was easy to implement. Well done!

Re: Cats into Featured?

Great Mod. thanks, has anyone got it going in 4.2.

How could I select specific categories to be displayed.

Re: Cats into Featured?

Does anyone have this mod working on 4.4.1? When I try the code as is (that works on my 4.1.11 xcart) the

<html>
<head></head>
<body>

tags do not exist, like the head.tpl is not being found

I'm guessing this is due to the new directory structure that has

skin->common files->customer .. in 4.4.1

If anyone has ideas what needs changing, or has this working in 4.4.1, would appreciate knowing what you did.

Thanks in advance

Peggy