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[keress@lkcwebdesign.com]

For 4.3.2 how do I get the subcategory descriptions to display as on this page:

http://www.berryhilldrip.com/CategoryProductList.jsp?cat=Garden+and+Home+Irriga tion

I found an answer here on the forums to this question, but it seems to be for a different version and was calling for different files than I seem to be using.

I've found skin1/customer/main/subcategories_t.tpl that seems to be controlling the page displaying a category and all its subcategories. Here's the section of code I need to edit:

  <span class="subcategories" style="min-width: {$subcat_div_width}px; width: {$subcat_div_width}px; min-height: {$subcat_div_height}px;">
    {if $subcategory.is_icon}
      <a href="home.php?cat={$subcategory.categoryid}"><img src="{$subcategory.icon_url|amp}" alt="{$subcategory.category|escape}" width="{$subcategory.image_x}" height="{$subcategory.image_y}" /></a>
    {else}
      <img src="{$ImagesDir}/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="{$subcat_img_height}" />
    {/if}
    <br />
    <a href="home.php?cat={$subcategory.categoryid}">{$subcategory.category|escape}</a><br />


    <!-- NEED SOMETHING HERE TO CALL IN THE SUBCATEGORY DESCRIPTION -->


         <div class="subcategory-descr"> { 
    {if $config.Appearance.count_products eq "Y"}
      {if $subcategory.product_count}
        {$lng.lbl_N_products|substitute:products:$subcategory.product_count}
      {elseif $subcategory.subcategory_count}
        {$lng.lbl_N_categories|substitute:count:$subcategory.subcategory_count}
      {/if}
    {/if}
  </span>

[cflsystems]

subcategories_t.tpl doesn't have description included by default, you have to call it yourself. subcategories_list.tpl has it.
{$subcategory.descr} or {$subcategory.description}

[keress@lkcwebdesign.com]

Thanks so much for responding. I had my settings set to display the subcategories in column view, which calls in the subcategories_t.tpl. If that's not selected, then the subcategories_list.tpl is called in, which is what I wanted, so thanks for causing me to notice that.

But, my subcategories_list.tpl doesn't have that {$subcategory.descr} or {$subcategory.description} code, and adding it, nothing happens. I tried a few more variations, {$subcat.descr} and {$subcategory.descr} and nothing appeared.

The complete line I'm adding is:

   <div class="subcategory-descr">{$subcat.description}</div>

and in source view I can see the

<div class="subcategory-descr"> </div> 

added, but the variable part is empty, so it's not making sense of that. Is there somewhere that variable has to be defined?

[cflsystems]

My bad, it is not included by default. It may even not be included in subcat array. If that's the case you will have to edit include/categories.php to include description in the categories arrays so you can call it in the template