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Homepage show cat in welcome area

How do I add the main cat to the home page similar to lite commerce does:
http://www.litecommerce.com/demo/cart.php

Thanks

Re: Homepage show cat in welcome area

Put this in customer/man/welcome.tpl:

{include file="customer/main/subcategories.tpl" cat=$cat}

Re: Homepage show cat in welcome area

That won't quite do it balinor. That just shows them in a single column. Try this:

Code:

{if $subcategories}

<table cellspacing="5" width="100%" border="0">

<tr>

{foreach from=$subcategories item=subcat}



{if $tmp is div by 4} 

     </tr><tr><td colspan="3"></td></tr><tr valign="top"> 

{/if} 



{ if $tmp and $first_subcat ne "Y" }

    {assign var="tmp" value=1}

    {assign var="first_subcat" value="Y"}

{/if}



 <td class="ColumnTitles" valign="top"><a title="{$subcat.category}" href="home.php?cat={ $subcat.categoryid }"><img src="{if $subcat.icon_url}{$subcat.icon_url}{else}{$xcart_web_dir}/default_image.gif{/if}" alt="" />



    <br /><font class="ItemsList">{ $subcat.category|escape }</font></a>



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

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

{elseif $subcat.subcategory_count}{ $subcat.subcategory_count } {$lng.lbl_categories|lower}

{else} 0 Products

{/if}

    {/if}

{assign var="tmp" value=$tmp+1}

{/foreach}

</table>

{/if}

Change {if $tmp is div by 4} to whatever number of columns you want.

Re: Homepage show cat in welcome area

Sorry, forgot subcategories come in that crappy list by default...I have them in columns by default in my install package.

Re: Homepage show cat in welcome area

THANKS! This helps might site alot.

Anyway of autosizing to 100x100px of the icons via thumb.phplike the products?

Re: Homepage show cat in welcome area

I'm still working on that. I just implimented the code yesterday.

One change I have made since posting though is to change {if $tmp is div by 4} to {if $tmp is div by $config.Appearance.products_per_row}

I'll be adding the code for thumbnail sizing next. I'll let you know when I've got it working.