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[Jeremy Smith]

Hi there,

I have a major feature enhancement question for some of you template developers of X Cart.

I have made a select box (when I finally get to actually test it due to our web server being annoying at the moment and not allowing me to test it, grrr!). However this only works at present for root categories, havent ventured into the sub categories just wanted to get some advice before I start fiddling with the form I have made.

What I have done is the following:

{* $Id: categories.tpl,v 1.26.2.4 2008/07/22 07:58:28 ferz Exp $ *}
{capture name=menu}
{if $active_modules.Fancy_Categories ne ""}
{include file="modules/Fancy_Categories/categories.tpl"}
{assign var="fc_cellpadding" value="0"}
{else}
{if $config.General.root_categories eq "Y"}

<form name="catForm">
<select name="rootCat">

{foreach from=$categories item=c}

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

<!-- <a href="home.php?cat={$c.categoryid}" >{$c.category}</a> -->

{/foreach}

</select>

<input type="button" name="go" value="Select" onClick="window.location=document.catForm.rootCat. options[document.catForm.rootCat.selectedIndex].value">


</form>

{else} {foreach from=$subcategories item=c key=catid}
<a href="home.php?cat={$catid}" >{$c.category}</a><br />
{/foreach}
{/if}
{/if}
{/capture}
{ include file="menuDropDown.tpl" dingbats="dingbats_categorie.gif" menu_title=$lng.lbl_categories menu_content=$smarty.capture.menu cellpadding=$fc_cellpadding}

Any ideas of how to make the sub categories just either appear, with a 2nd select box to the right of the root categories?

Regards,
Jeremy.

[balinor]

Be careful, this is very search engine UN-friendly

[Jeremy Smith]

To be honest, with our main page, thats search engine friendly we have x cart set as a subdomain of our website, so that sort of eradicates that as it where.

We need this as a definate thing in our ecommerce so thats non negotiable, thanks for the comment though.

[balinor]

Not sure you understand, but if it is non-negotiable I guess it is moot

[Jeremy Smith]

I know but my manager sort of demands it really, sorry.