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NM Got it to work!!

I'm an idiot.. total user error on my part. I got things up and running now.

Thanks for your help!

Description text

Great Mod!! Well done just one thing I put my text in the Description: field and it doesn't show on my website any one know why? :roll:

Hi Guys,

I just got the Dynamic SEO-Friendly URLs from SafetyNet Web thanks Hooter :-) and I 'm using the Fashion Mosaic on a new shop 4.0.16

So the question is, has anyone got an example with subcategories in a 3 column layout with an image for each sub-cat with name and product count below the image, using the above mod?

Thanks

Arton

Thanks for your mod Anton

It didn't work for me until I used Jason mod.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdiehl

If you look at the file /*xcart_dir*/include/categories.php you will find on lines 74-78 (in version 4.0.12 at least) the code that looks like this:

Code:

        if ($short_list) {

                $to_search = "$sql_tbl[categories].categoryid,$sql_tbl[categories].parentid,

$sql_tbl[categories].categoryid_path,$sql_tbl[categories].category,

$sql_tbl[categories].product_count,$sql_tbl[categories].avail,$sql_tbl[categories].description,$sql_tbl[categories].order_by";

        } else {

                $to_search = "$sql_tbl[categories].*";

        }

... for the first "$to_search =" statement above just add ,$sql_tbl[categories].description between the quotes at the end....

On my version, instead of

Code:

{section name=cat_num loop=$subcategories}

I had

Code:

{foreach from=$subcategories item=subcat}.

My subcategories listing is single column.
So I put

Code:

{$subcat.description|escape}

instead of

Code:

{ $categories[cat_num].description|escape }

and its working fine now.

Work great but,,,

I love how this works, but for some reason it is displaying the catagory and subcatagory words twice.

Company Name : T-Shirts
Comapny Name : T-Shirts

up top.

I've finaly been able to get my description to show.
Except that it will only show the default language.

Here's my working code with the default language

Code:

{foreach from=$subcategories item=subcat}

<tr>

    <TD width="70" align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="padding:3px 3px 5px 3px">[img]{$xcart_web_dir}/icon.php?categoryid={ $subcat.categoryid }[/img] </td>

    <td  valign="top" style="padding:10px 3px 5px 3px" bgcolor="#E6E7DB"><A href="home.php?cat={ $subcat.categoryid }"><FONT class="ProductTitle">

      {$subcat.category|escape }

      </FONT></A>

           <div class="Productlist">

/******* description here******/

{$subcat.description|regex_replace:"/[\n]/":"

"} 








    

        {if $config.Appearance.count_products eq "Y"}

                {if $subcat.product_count}{ $subcat.product_count } {$lng.lbl_products|lower}

                {elseif $subcat.subcategory_count > 1}

                                {$subcat.subcategory_count } 

                        {$lng.lbl_categories|lower}

                {else}

                        { $subcat.subcategory_count } 

                        {$lng.lbl_categorie|lower}

                {/if}

        {/if}

      </div></TD>

  </TR>

  <tr>

    <td bgcolor="#ffffff"></td>

    <td bgcolor="#B8BC97">[img]{$ImagesDir}/spacer.gif[/img]</td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td bgcolor="#ffffff" ></td>

    <td align="right" bgcolor="#E6E7DB"><table  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

        <tr>

          <td>[img]{$ImagesDir}/plus_details.gif[/img]</td>

          <td background="{$ImagesDir}/pix_plus.gif">{$lng.lbl_see_details}</td>

          <td>[img]{$ImagesDir}/right_plus.gif[/img]</td>

        </tr>

      </table></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td bgcolor="#B8BC97" colspan="2">[img]{$ImagesDir}/spacer.gif[/img]</td>

  </tr>



{/foreach}

What do I have to change to get the description to show in all the language?

I've tried with no success

Code:

{$subcat.lng.description|regex_replace:"/[\n]/":"

"}

Code:

{$lng.subcat.description|regex_replace:"/[\n]/":"

"}

Is there something else I have to modify in categories.php?

Martin

Re: Language issues

Quote:

Originally Posted by tabarsoft

I've finaly been able to get my description to show.
Except that it will only show the default language.

Hey Martin,

Try this for include/categories.php (backup your existing file, I did not have a chance to test it):

Code:



did not work, will update

Let me know if this one did not help.

Still no luck!!!!

What part did you change maybe i'll see somethings.

It doesnt make any sense! Every othe part of you mod shows in the wright language.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arton

has anyone got an example with subcategories in a 3 column layout with an image for each sub-cat with name and product count below the image, using the above mod?

I didn't see an answer for this, and I just figured it out, so I thought I would share in case others want it too. I used WECKS change to the subcategories.tpl file posted here: http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?p=78344#78344. To change the format to 3 columns I did the following:

on line 21 I changed this bit from:

Code:

{ if %cat_num.index% is div by 2}

Code:

{ if %cat_num.index% is div by 3}

Just so it looked better, on line 24, within the <TD> tags, I added width="33%".

I couldn't believe it was so simple. :P

Hi Guys,

Sorry for asking again but I'm still looking for this mod.

I have got the Dynamic SEO-Friendly URLs from SafetyNet Web thanks Hooter and I 'm using the Fashion Mosaic on a new shop 4.0.16

So the question is, has anyone got an example with subcategories in a 3 column layout with an image for each sub-cat with name and product count below the image, using Dynamic SEO-Friendly URLs from SafetyNet Webs mod?

Thanks

Arton