Subcategories Icon
 

I am looking for some information that I thought I saw on here before.

Basically what I am trying to do is this...

I have category listings down the side of the page. When a customer clicks on the category listings, the main body of the page is populated with a textual listing of the subcategoires.

What I would like to do is modify the the customer/main/subcategories.tpl file so that instead of using text to list the subcat, it uses the subcat's icon.

Also, I would like to list them in three columns across.

Thanks for the help

Trick Dog!

Re: Subcategories Icon
 

Try this for "subcategories.tpl"


you can see it in action here:

http://www.bitsnspurs.com/store/customer/home.php?cat=13

if you need 3 columns chnage to

Thanks a bunch! That did it!

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Thank you.

Doesn't that code remove the "x products" or "x categories" count on the right-hand side? Is there an easy way to combine graphic and count?

anyone?

I updated the code above to show products or category counts after category description. I did not have a chance to test it.

That worked. I made some format changes, and moved some stuff around, but it worked as posted and you can see it here, with my changes:

http://www.raiseyourpulse.com/customer/home.php?cat=262

Ok, this is exactly what i've been looking for! But there is something i don't get in regrads to have sub-category icons:

How do I get the Icons to show for each sub category? I notied the code went like this:

But i have no idea where i put the icon images and how i link them to that img src (../icon.php?categoryid={$subcategories[cat_num].categoryid})?

If i'm missing something, can someone please feel me in. Thank you

You can assign icon to each category in "Categories" interface.
If you are using v4.X.X you will have to change


to

I am trying to get this mod working for my site (www.eArtPark.com). For some reason, neither the description or product counts are displaying. What am I doing wrong here?

Strange Error with the category icon script
 

I've tried to implemt the subcategories.tpl on my site. I am running 4.0.8 in test mode at the moment.

Everything seems fine, I can click on a category on the left menu to open up and view the sub-categories...where I can see the category icons displaying fine...but the strange thing is this...above the category icons I can see TWO navigation paths as shown below one on top of the other , there should only be one....but i don't know how to fix it within the script.

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Any thoughts on how i can fix this ?????

Thx Peter

Fixed My Problem
 

I managed to figure out my problem, the answer to my posting is this

Within the subcategories.tpl .... remove the 1st line.

{ include file="location.tpl" }


Peter

Great Mod, thanks 27 stars. Works a treat on 3.5.X

Test under Image
 

Hi
Any one knows how I can get my text center under the Icon?
Thanks :?

Change align=left to align=center :)

Similar, but hopefully simpler situation:

4.0.13 out-of-box subcategories.tpl has the parent category icon showing up IF THERE ARE SUBCATEGORIES and DOES NOT show the category icon for the lowest level subcategories.

I need this to work in reverse - If there are subcategories, DO NOT SHOW the icon. If there are no subcategories (Lowest level) SHOW the icon.

Seems like that should be the default behavior anyway. Iam chasing my tail going through the template trying different things and can't get it to work. ANY IDEAS?

just change

{if $tmp} [img]{if $current_category.icon_url}{$current_category.icon _url}{else}{$xcart_web_dir}/icon.php?categoryid={$cat}{/if}[/img] {/if}

to

{if ne $tmp} [img]{if $current_category.icon_url}{$current_category.icon _url}{else}{$xcart_web_dir}/icon.php?categoryid={$cat}{/if}[/img] {/if}

in skin1/customer/main/subcategories.tpl template

Thanks Anton -

I ended up working through it and incorporated the mod in the forum also. Here is what it looks like:
This works perfectly for me - if there are subcategories, show the name and logo in 2 column format, NO image for the parent category. If no subcategories, show the category image.

Hey Great Mod.

Have a question regarding the product count and warning message.

I've managed to remove the products count from my tpl file but still have a message at the bottom of the table:

"No matching products found"

Tried removing the some of the product code below the subcat table to get rid of it but didn't work.

Heres what my code looks like after the revisions.

Hi,

I think you have change in products.tpl file:

from


to

thanks 27stars - that did it

Great Mod - But What if you are using File System
 

This mod works great if you are using the database to store the category images. But what if you change to a file system? When I click on the properties of a subcategory image I get:


but if I check an item image I get:


Since my DB performance sucks I would really like to change this to use my file system. Can I do this?

The code i'm using for subcategories.tpl in version 4.017 is:

Hey since a helpful person on here told me how to use Dreamweaver to alter my code I decided to try this mod and it works great ! Now the only problem is since I've been lazy and not bothered clipping my images to size is there a little bit of code I can put in there to display the icon/image at a certain size like 200x200 or 150 x 150 ? as i use the larger image in product detail too which prevents me running a batch job in Fireworks.

Thanks
and Merry Christmas

Description not coming through
 

Hi, This mod is great!!

One question though. I have copied both versions into my cart to try them out and they both work except for the won't bring in the sub category descriptions????

The piece of code I think is try to call it out is:

<td align=left><a class="alt" href="home.php?cat={ $subcategories[cat_num].categoryid }">
{$subcategories[cat_num].category|escape}</a>

{$subcategories[cat_num].description|escape}
{if $config.Appearance.count_products eq "Y"}

However it won't bring it in. Can anybody help

I tried searching for subcategories[cat.num]. Is this a database input?? I do not have a xcart_subcategories database.

Any help to get this working would be great.

Subscriptions Icon
 

Hey manage to get this working with help from 27stars and anoher forum link

Thought I'd shared in case anybody else is looking at this.

You need to go to the categories.php file and change the code

Original Code:


New code:


Hope this helps.

The only thing else I'm trying to do is get the sub category description to display HTML like the product descriptions.

Can anybody help.
Still not very code with code.

Thanks

This is what I have been looking for...

This helps with having over 400 categories

Thanks for posting...

I tried to get the names of the sub cats under the pic. But no help... I tried the left to center. But it did nothing.

Can someone be more specific on what I need to do.

Thanks in advance,

This is great, i have managed to get the list into rows of 3's, i have also changed the icon to the null image but this leaves a gap between the rows. Can anyone tell me how to close these gaps up or make it so the category does not look for an image?

Thanks

Hi,

Can you provide link to that page?

Keep this one alive
 

anyone got this working on 4.1RC4 yet?

I tried all that to get it working under 4.1.0; but it always looks strange (no icons, and YES! I replaced di icon.php reference).

Anyone has it working under 4.1.0 ?