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NEW - Sub-Category Display

ok, been working on having the sub-categories display in a drop down menu.

I've actually got it working, it's not real 'pretty' yet but seems to work. What I can't seem to get is to display the current category image only.

here's the code if anyone is intrested in using it or helping me :wink:

Code:

{* $Id: subcategories.tpl,v 1.32 2003/04/24 09:50:33 svowl Exp $ *}

{ include file="location.tpl" }

{if $active_modules.Bestsellers ne "" and $config.Modules.bestsellers_menu ne "Y"}








{include file="modules/Bestsellers/bestsellers.tpl"}

{/if}














{literal}

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">

<!--

function switchpage(select) {

// JavaScript function for switching to web page when user

// selects option from the given list box.

  var index;



  for(index=0; index<select.options.length; index++)

    if(select.options[index].selected)

      {

        if(select.options[index].value!="")

          window.location.href=select.options[index].value;

        break;

      }

}

// -->

</SCRIPT>

{/literal}





{ include file="customer/main/navigation.tpl" }

{if ($navigation_page eq "")||($navigation_page eq "1")}{$current_category.description|regex_replace:"/[\n]/":"

"}



{/if}

{capture name=dialog}

{assign var="tmp" value="0"}

{section name=cat_num loop=$subcategories}

{if $subcategories[cat_num].category}{assign var="tmp" value="1"}{/if}

{/section}

{if $tmp}

<SELECT NAME="url" onchange="switchpage(this)">

  <OPTION VALUE=""> Choose Subcategory</option>

{section name=cat_num loop=$subcategories}

  <OPTION VALUE="home.php?cat={ $subcategories[cat_num].categoryid }"> { $subcategories[cat_num].category_name|escape }</option>

    {/section}

</SELECT>

{else}



{/if}



<br clear=_all><hr size=1 noshade>



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

{if $products eq "" and $tmp eq "0"}

{$lng.txt_no_products_in_cat}

{/if}

{/capture}

{include file="dialog.tpl" title=$current_category.category_name|regex_replace:"/.*\//":"" content=$smarty.capture.dialog extra="width=100%"}

{if $products eq ""}

{if $f_products ne ""}








{include file="customer/main/featured.tpl"}

{/if}

{/if}

{ include file="customer/main/navigation.tpl" }

Got a sample somewhere of how it looks and acts at the moment? Sounds really interesting!

no, but I will put it up somehwere and let you take a look.

It's just a normal drop-down menu that will display each sub-category that is with in THAT category..IF there are sub-categories present. If not, it won't display.

Select the sub-category and a javascript takes you to that sub-category. It will go as deep as you have levels of categories

Is there anyway to call the categories list from a different area, because that code only works in the actual subcategory. For example say i have:

CATEGORIES:
Category1 <--- Subcategory1a, Subcategory2a, Subcategory3a
Category2 <--- Subcategory1b, Subcategory2b, Subcategory3b
Category3 <--- Subcategory1c, Subcategory2c, Subcategory3c

And i put that code inside on the main page it will list Category1, Category2, and Category3, if i put it directly under Category1 it will display Subcategory1a, Subcategory2a, Subcategory3a right?

Is there a way I can have something where it will call a specific subcategory list from the main page, where i can put that code directly under the main page, but i want it to list all the subcategories of category1?