Replace text with images? Help with specific locations..
 

Hello,
I am very close to finishing the design of my store, but a few things are eluding me. I would like to replace the side cart modules name (Categories, Your Cart, Manufacturers etc) from the actual text to an image. Now, I know that menu.tpl controls how all the side blocks look and each ind. module is also controlled by their respective .tpl. I was able to add images where I want them by editing each respective .tpl and then commenting out
{* $menu_title *} in menu.tpl, but then I also lost the side block text in the Admin area.

What I would like to know is if I can edit the menu.tpl so I can make it call images instead of text with the { $menu_title } is there is an image, but if not then just draw the normal text? Is this possible? Am I making it more complicated then it needs to be?

Thanks so much.

Try this, instead of editing the menu.tpl file change the way that you call it from other templates. For example, in your /customer/home.tpl file there are a few calls to templates that use the menu.tpl file. Lets take for example the Users Online module.


The content that the file above produces is inserted into the menu.tpl file with this line at the bottom of the file:


If you would like to use an image as the title just pass that code as the title variable. Something like this:


...of course changing the image name to your image, and the width and height to your width and height.

I cannot thank you enough, I spent hours on this. Thank you very much.

your welcome...