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Show only sub-categories in left sidebar?

I'm desiging a store with a horizontal menu for my root categories. Once one is clicked, I'd like to display only the corresonding sub-categories in the left sidebar. Anyone got a simple way of accomplishing this?

Re: Show only sub-categories in left sidebar?

New problem. Nevermind the previous...changed categories.tpl to this

Code:

{*

$Id: categories.tpl,v 1.33 2008/11/06 16:53:53 max Exp $

vim: set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et:

*}

{capture name=menu}

{if $active_modules.Fancy_Categories}

  {include file="modules/Fancy_Categories/categories.tpl"}

  {assign var="additional_class" value="menu-fancy-categories-list"}

{else}

  <ul>

    {foreach from=$subcategories item=subcat}

          <li>

            <a href="home.php?cat={$subcat.categoryid}">{$subcat.category|escape}</a>

{/foreach}

  </ul>

  {assign var="additional_class" value="menu-categories-list"}

{/if}

{/capture}

{include file="customer/menu_dialog.tpl" title=$lng.aisles content=$smarty.capture.menu}

Now the problem is that when I click a menu item that has no sub-categories, my menu disappears. I guess what I'm looking for is a statement that says "if there are no subcategories, show all subcategories of this subcategory's parent. Does that make sense? If I click a 2nd level that has only products and no 3rd level categories, I only want to display the other 2nd level categories of the parent in categories.tpl. Can anyone help?

Re: Show only sub-categories in left sidebar?

For anyone looking for something similar....horizontal category bar with only the current subcats for each in a sidebar..check this post - http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=58751