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Hello,

Just a modification from html_sucks' displaying categories tree. This MOD allows for a "site map" type page.

You can check it out at: http://mascotasmexico.com/tienda/sitemap.php (please consider that this is a live shop!)

Hope you'll find it useful :) !

1. Create file "sitemap.php" on your xcart root directory

Code:

<?php



require "./auth.php";

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



$smarty->assign("main","sitemap");

func_display("customer/home.tpl", $smarty);



?>

2. Create template skin1/customer/sitemap.tpl

Code:

{* $Id: sitemap.tpl,v 1.00 2005/02/24 09:53:29 max Exp $ *}

{capture name=sitemap}

<ul> {*** start unordered list***}

{section name=l1_cat_num loop=$allcategories} {*** loop ALL categories ***}

   {if $allcategories[l1_cat_num].parentid eq 0} {*** loop root categories/parentid 0 - level 1***}[*]{$allcategories[l1_cat_num].category}



      {if $allcategories[l1_cat_num].subcategory_count gt 0} {*** check if root cat has child cats ***}

         <ul>

            {section name=l2_cat_num loop=$allcategories} {*** loop through sub cats with matching parent id ***}

               {if $allcategories[l2_cat_num].parentid eq $allcategories[l1_cat_num].categoryid}[*]{$allcategories[l2_cat_num].category}



               {if $allcategories[l2_cat_num].subcategory_count gt 0} {*** check if parent has child cats***}

                  <ul>

                     {section name=l3_cat_num loop=$allcategories}

                        {if $allcategories[l3_cat_num].parentid eq $allcategories[l2_cat_num].categoryid}[*]{$allcategories[l3_cat_num].category}



                        {if $allcategories[l3_cat_num].subcategory_count gt 0} {*** check if parent has child cats***}

                           <ul>

                              {section name=l4_cat_num loop=$allcategories}

                                 {if $allcategories[l4_cat_num].parentid eq $allcategories[l3_cat_num].categoryid}[*]{$allcategories[l4_cat_num].category}



                        {/if}{/section}[/list]

            {/if}{/if}{/section}[/list]

      {/if}{/if}{/section}[/list]

   {/if}{/if}{/section}[/list]{/capture}



{include file="dialog.tpl" title="Site map" content=$smarty.capture.sitemap extra="width=100%"}

3. Add the following lines near the bottom of skin1/customer/home_main.tpl

Code:

{* Lines added for sitemap *}

{elseif $main eq "sitemap"}

{include file="customer/sitemap.tpl"}

{* End of added lines *}



{else}

{include file="common_templates.tpl"}

{/if}

Finally, add a call to sitemap.php somewhere. For example: to add it at the bottom of the categories menu, alter skin1/customer/categories.tpl near the bottom:

Code:

<FONT class="CategoriesList">Site map</FONT>

{/capture}

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

Enjoy! :-({|=

Awesome, exactly what I was looking for!
I'll give it a try tonight.

Thanks alot fernando! :D :D

It works great fernando!
Any ideas how to include other (help)menu links and maybe
also products?

And thanks again for sharing this mod. :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jerrad

It works great fernando!
Any ideas how to include other (help)menu links and maybe
also products?

I'm glad you liked it! Including products would be a bit harder, both on the php side (retrieving the products lists for each category) and the tpl (displaying it nicely). I guess this would make sense for a store with very few products, but not so much for a store with many products as the results would be pretty ugly (not to mention the download times!)

What kind of help menu are you referring to?

No offense taken, on the contrary :) I too think it's great to see that, even though XC is a commercial software, people take advantage of the fact that is an OpenSource product and share their improvements on this product.

Thisone also looks great!
And for that 'price' I'm going to give it a try, markwoo :wink:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jerrad

Thisone also looks great!
And for that 'price' I'm going to give it a try, markwoo :wink:

Well, just to state again, I have seen multiple "For Sale" mods for the site maps and I am sure there are multiple features that make them great, but since Fernando has added this FREE mod Kudos to him for this.

The site link I sent to you is from a site I have stumbled accross and it appears that you can add custom links and that was what I needed to do as well.

I am going to try to add this to the cart this weekend and give it a shot.

I think the biggest plus was they were also giving it away for a little info and that to me was cheap enough.

Again, Kudos out to Fernando for his contribution!

That looks great Fernando! Is it compatable with 3.5.x? I've been looking for a simple site map mod, and this looks like it may be it! :D

I'm not sure if it will work with 3.5 as is, it just might... Since I entered X-Cart at 4.0x, didn't have the chance to test it against previous versions.

Please feel free to try it with 3.5 (I would strongly suggest you try it on a test server, even though this mod doesn't really have impact on existing code nor data, but better be on the ultra-safe side :) ) and do let me know if it worked for you.

markwhoo,

Hmmm, looks like the link to your sitemap is broken.

Anyway, I'm going to try Fernando's site map, looks good.