[jburba2000]

Lite-commerce, Ive had zero experience with. What I basically did was this:

1. Copy the menu.tpl (which is basically just the html look of it) and paste it as submenu.tpl, making minor changes to the template just for the looks.
2. Create customer/subcat.tpl and add the following:

{* $Id: subcat.tpl,v 1.0 2005/04/23 10:25:49 jburba2000 Exp $ *}

{capture name=subcatdiag}
{assign var="tmp" value="0"}
{section name=cat_num loop=$subcategories}
{if $subcategories[cat_num].category}{assign var="tmp" value="1"}{/if}
{/section}
{foreach from=$subcategories item=subcat}
{if $tmp ne "1"}
{$lng.lbl_my_account}{else}
<FONT class="SubCategoriesList">{ $subcat.category|escape }</FONT>



{*** section name=mid loop=$manufacturers}
<FONT class="SubCategoriesList">{$products.manufacturer}</FONT>

{/section ***}



{/if}
{if $config.Appearance.count_products eq "Y"}
{if $subcat.product_count gt "0"}<FONT class="Text">({ $subcat.product_count})</FONT>{/if}
{/if}


{/foreach}
{/capture}
{ include file="submenu.tpl" menu_title=$current_category.category menu_content=$smarty.capture.subcatdiag}

(the quoted out part being the manufacturers listing for all products in that category and subcategories, because I do not have it working yet.)

3. Change home.tpl from:

{ include file="customer/categories.tpl" }


{/if}

to:

{if $current_category.category ne ""}
{ include file="customer/subcat.tpl" }
{/if}
{ include file="customer/categories.tpl" }


{/if}