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ARW VISIONS

10-26-2009 12:58 PM

root cat

is there root cat syntax?

like

{if root_cat eq 255}

blah blah blah

{/if}

Ash

pauldodman

10-26-2009 01:06 PM

Re: root cat

if $cat eq "1" or $current_category.parentid eq "1"

ARW VISIONS

10-26-2009 01:10 PM

Re: root cat

but what if the are ina sub sub sub cat... you know 4 levels down?

ARW VISIONS

10-26-2009 01:13 PM

Re: root cat

paul,

didn't work at all. nothing showed.

cflsystems

10-26-2009 05:30 PM

Re: root cat

$cat is the current category id
$current_category.parentid is one level up obviously (which will work if you have only one level down)
There is also $current_category.categoryid_path which first element will be the first category id for the sub sub sub cat. It is in the form of 123/234/345...

ARW VISIONS

10-28-2009 06:52 AM

Re: root cat

how do you do a foreach from a certain category only?

like say list sub one level down just from cat 255

cflsystems

10-28-2009 08:09 AM

Re: root cat

How about this

<ul>
{foreach from=$allsubcategories item=c}
{if $c.parentid eq "255"}
<li>$c.category</li>
{/if}
{/foreach}
</ul>

If you don't have $allsubcategories this is how to get them (I can't remember the thread)

add to /include/categories.php at the end before subcategories and cat assigns

Code:

function func_getallsubcat()

{

 $raj = func_get_categories_list("",true,"all");

 $raj1 = $raj['all_categories'];

 $ll = array();

 foreach ($raj1 as $k=>$val) {

  if($val['parentid']!="0") {

   $ll[$val['parentid']][]=$val;

  }

 }

return $ll;

}

$smarty->assign("allsubcategories",func_getallsubcat());

ARW VISIONS

10-28-2009 08:48 AM

Re: root cat

couldn't figure it out, so I hard coded it.

Here the whole scenario.

There are 10 root cats all together. 5 of them have a sub cat that list gemstone cats

so

rings > gemstone rings > Amethyst, Pearl, Emerald, Garnet Ruby ect...

earrings > gemstone earrings> Amethyst, Pearl, Emerald, Garnet Ruby ect...

I want to list the sub cats of the gemstone rings on the rings root cat page

and

I want to list the sub cats of the gemstone earrings on the earrings root cat page

cflsystems

10-28-2009 09:00 AM

Re: root cat

Ok try in subcategories template used to show subcats

<ul>
{if $cat eq "rings"}
{foreach from=$allsubcategories item=c}
{if $c.parentid eq "gemstone rings"}
<li>$c.category</li>
{/if}
{/foreach}
{elseif $cat eq "earrings"}
{foreach from=$allsubcategories item=c}
{if $c.parentid eq "gemstone earrings"}
<li>$c.category</li>
{/if}
{/foreach}
{/if}
</ul>

Replace cat names with cat numbers

ARW VISIONS

10-28-2009 09:14 AM

Re: root cat

ok thanks, will try that.

Ash

ChristineP

10-29-2009 05:19 AM

Re: root cat

Ashley, I've tried using the root category in my products.tpl and with our flyout categories mod, but no cigar. I ended up creating other templates to get the result that I wanted, but it was far more work. If you find an answer for capturing the root category, please post it.

TBone

11-25-2009 05:33 AM

Re: root cat

Try this:

{$current_category.categoryid_path|regex_replace:" /\/[0-9\/]*/":""}

this fetches the root category from the path. It finds the first "/" and replaces everything after it with nothing leaving the current root cat id.

Hope this helps.

hollaratbear

11-27-2009 07:38 PM

Re: root cat

Has anybody gotten any of these to work? I've been looking to implement this as well. I tried a few suggestions here but no dice......

ARW VISIONS

11-27-2009 07:50 PM

Re: root cat

nope never got it to work.

Jon	01-22-2010 08:18 AM

Re: root cat

I always like keeping processing in php when possible.

Open home.php

FIND:

Code:

require $xcart_dir."/include/categories.php";

AFTER ADD:

Code:

// WCM - Get Root Cat (customization)

$wcmRootCat = func_query_first("SELECT categoryid,category FROM $sql_tbl[categories] WHERE categoryid='" . (int)current(explode('/',($current_category['categoryid_path']))) . "'");

$current_category['root_categoryid'] = $wcmRootCat['categoryid'];

$current_category['root_category'] = $wcmRootCat['category'];

$smarty->assign('current_category',$current_category);

// / WCM - Get Root Cat (customization)

In your template use:

Code:

{if $current_category.root_categoryid eq X}

    The root category for this is: {$current_category.root_category}.

{else}

Something else

{/if}

Jon	01-22-2010 08:27 AM

Re: root cat

Just reviewed the reason behind needing this and our Category Map module be be a solution: http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods/x-cart-seo-category-map.html

Duramax 6.6L

01-23-2010 12:45 PM

Re: root cat

Could someone please explain in detail why this is so important.

Jon	01-23-2010 06:54 PM

Re: root cat

Why what in particular is so important?

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