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Catergories set-up to not display if no products in category

I have a client that is running x-cart 3.5.3 and wants to have the categories set-up so they do not display on the customer front end if there are no avail products in that particular category.

I am still very much learning (and teaching myself) programming. I think I should be able to do this with a if/else statement but dont quite know what the rest of the code should be.

Anyone give me a hand with this? This would be a nice mod to come standard with x-cart (hint, hint) :D

which cats? The side bar or the one in the middle which list sub cats also? Thats products.tpl

Anyway, find the code that shows the # of products inside the tpl

I am too lazy to look, maybe someone can post the code.

for example sake, lets just call it $productcount or whatever

{if $productcount eq 0}
&nbsp (if you run a table or whatever) blank
{elseif $productcount ne 0}
category name here (original section which shows the categories name)
{/if}

I am using elseif because I think there is already an else call somewhere in there already.

Well, here is the categories.tpl.....any specific suggestions?

Code:

{* $Id: categories.tpl,v 1.19 2003/11/11 14:02:32 svowl Exp $ *}

{capture name=menu}

{if $active_modules.Fancy_Categories ne ""}

{include file="`$fancycategories_config.modules_path`/fancy_categories.tpl"}

{else}

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

{section name=cat_num loop=$categories}

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




{/section}

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

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




{/section}

{/if}

{/if}






{/capture}

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

BTW
I am just looking for the side bar categories to be disabled if no products under that category/sub-category.

Come to think of it, I guess if there are no sub-categories being used just the main category in the side bar should be disabled automatically, but, if he is using sub-categories, then just that sub-category should be automatically disabled. This my be tougher that I thought :roll: