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Category count figure on root category

Hi All,
Just installing X-Cart and have been customising a few things.

I would like to ask how to have a count of how many products are inside a category or sub-category instead of how many catgories which doesn't really help anyone at all. The way X-Cart comes as default you can spend your whole day clicking on empty categories which is very user-friendly.

So I would like to have in my categories in the sidebar menu and in the sub-category menu that comes up when you click on those categories:

Category 1 (23)
Category 2 (14)
Category 3 (9)

and so on. So the figure in brackets is a total count of everything within that root category even if it has a another 5 levels inside it.....rather than it saying that it has "5 Categories".

Also would like to know how I fix it saying "1 Categories" and "1 Products". I can't for the life of me find where it is comign from.

TIA
J

Put

{ $categories[cat_num].product_count}

where you want the product count to appear in categories.tpl

so in your example it would be:

Code:

{capture name=menu}

{if $config.General.root_categories eq "Y"}

{section name=cat_num loop=$categories}

<font class=CategoriesList>{ $categories[cat_num].category_name|escape }({ $categories[cat_num].product_count})</font>




{/section}

{else} {section name=cat_num loop=$subcategories}

<font class=CategoriesList>{ $subcategories[cat_num].category_name|escape }</font>




{/section}

{/if}






{/capture}

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

:D Thanks for your help but I tried it and it doesn;t work....just shows (0) on every category :(

Any suggestions?

Thanks again
J