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Getting subcategories for a specific main category?

Any help on this would be appreciated....

I'm trying to present 2 drop downs on our home page:

1. A drop down to show all main categories

No probs. Got this working with some help from this forum. Code looks like this:

Code:

<select name="site" size=1 class="inputfield">

        <option value="">Go to....

        {section name=cat_num loop=$categories}

      <option value="home.php?cat={$categories[cat_num].categoryid}">{$categories[cat_num].category}

        {/section}

    </select>

..and it renders like this:

http://www.groovemedia.co.uk/temp/dd_example1.gif

2. Sub-categories within only one specific main category

This is where it gets tricky. I have one main category called 'By Design'. Within this category are many sub-cats. i.e.:

..By Design
...................Anya
...................Bibi
...................Cari

...and what i'd like to do is to generate a drop down (as per #1 above), but to only get the subcats within the main 'By Design' category.

Anyone got any pointers?

Cheers,

This is what I would like too - anyone solve it?

Or at least I would like a separate menu for one subcategory branch that works just like the main categories menu but the root is one particular subcategory

any help would be great

I tried putting this into my home.tpl
{* {include file="customer/treatmentTypes.tpl"} *}

then setting all the subcats I want to be greater than 500 then putting this into the treatmentTypes.tpl

{* $Id: treatmentTypes.tpl,v 1.23 2004/06/24 09:53:29 max Exp $ *}
{capture name=menu}
{section name=cat_num loop=$subcategories}
{if $categories[cat_num].categoryid >= 500}
<FONT class="CategoriesList">{$subcategories[cat_num].category}</FONT>

{/if}{/section}

but it doesn't work. I have bought myself a php book though :)

Viv