[mgale]

Hi Derrick,

You have the gist of it ... but the thing is that I want to set the value of "cat" WITHOUT having a ? is the a href.

So, the href calls category1.php,
which in turn displays category1.tlp,
which in turn calls subcategories.tlp
which calls products.tlp.

However, the subcategories.tlp and products.tpl are looking for the value of the variable "cat" (or "$Cat") to determine which category of subcategories and products to display.

In the original code, that variable value is set via the a href call, as you noted in your code.

So I need to figure out a different way to set that value, somewhere within category1.php or category1.tpl. Because category1.php and category1.tpl will ONLY be called when that link is clicked, I thought I could hard set the value, with

assign name=cat value=1

or

$Cat = 1 

but I must have either the syntax or the location for it wrong.

Suggestions on where I should put it and what it should say?

Marie