I would like to have a different background color for each category page. I need a bit of help though. I thought about two different methods as follows:
Method 1 -- Modify the file classes/XLite/View/controlled.php (function defineBodyClasses) to place a new class into the body declaration (such as cat_12_bg and cat_15_bg) and then define those classes to have the appropriate background colors in the custom css section.
Method 2 -- Create a substitute copy of skins/default/en/main.tpl and place it into skins/custom_skin/default/en/main.tpl. Again, here, the classes would be specified in a <div> and defined in the custom css as previosly described.
I think Method 2 is preferred. In either case, I need to have code to recognize the current category. Method 1 requires php code while Method 2 requires Smarty code.
Now, the problem I have is I don't know how to find what global variable or method to call to identify the category. I have seen some similar code for this in the forums but it appears to apply to versions of X-Cart prior to version 5.
So, anyone got some guidance for this please? Thanks!