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Display Subcategories of Parent, While in Subcategory

Hi All,

I've made a dropdown menu at the top of my category pages in a 4.4.3 store that lists the subcategories in that category, like so:

HTML Code:



<select class="gender-select" onchange="if(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value != '')window.top.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value">



        <option value="Select A Gender">mens/womens/youth</option>

        {foreach from=$categories item=subcat name=subcategories}

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

        {/foreach}



</select>

I would like this dropdown menu to be visible and function even after you go into a subcategory. Currently, it shows on the parent category page correctly, but then when you go into a subcategory the selections are no longer in the menu.

http://future.thefutureforward.com/~aso/Snow/

I think I need an if statement in there that grabs the parent's subcats when in a subcat, but I'm not sure how to do it.

Any help is much appreciated!

Re: Display Subcategories of Parent, While in Subcategory

SOLVED thanks to this post - http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?p=320214#post320214

Here's how I did it:

In subcategories.tpl:

HTML Code:

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

In subcategories_dropdown.tpl:

HTML Code:



{php}

        $t = $this->get_template_vars('cat'); 

        

        $result=mysql_query("select * from xcart_categories where categoryid=$t");

        while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))

        {

            $cid=$row['categoryid'];

            $pid=$row['parentid'];

            $cat=$row['category'];

        }

     {/php}

     <select name="mySelect" class="gender-select"  onchange="if(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value !=  '')window.top.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value">

         <option value="Select A Gender">mens/womens/youth</option>

         {php}

            

            if($pid==0){

            $res=mysql_query("select * from xcart_categories where parentid=$t");

            while($row1=mysql_fetch_array($res))

            {

            $cat12=$row1['category'];

            $cid12=$row1['categoryid'];

            

         {/php}

         <option value="home.php?cat={php}echo $cid12; {/php}">{php}echo $cat12;{/php}</option>

         {php}

            }

            }else {

            $res=mysql_query("select * from xcart_categories where parentid=$pid");

            while($row1=mysql_fetch_array($res))

            {

            $cat12=$row1['category'];

            $cid12=$row1['categoryid'];

         {/php}

         <option value="home.php?cat={php}echo $cid12; {/php}">{php}echo $cat12;{/php}</option>

         {php}

            }

            

            }

        {/php}

    </select>

Works perfectly!

Re: Display Subcategories of Parent, While in Subcategory

shouldn't you put the PHP in php file?

Re: Display Subcategories of Parent, While in Subcategory

Probably, but with a deadline looming, this worked so I ran with it!

Re: Display Subcategories of Parent, While in Subcategory

Nice solution!

{php} is deprecated so you'll definitely want to clean this up when you have a chance. Maybe post your new solution then. :)