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[yoshitoshi]

Great product, finally understanding the templates, though i would ask this question right away and see if you can help me save some time.

Check out www.pooltradeshop.com/home.php
yes i know, a mess still
Instead of direct linking to the categories on the front page, i've set them as static images and want the subcategories to show up in the list underneath. That way i dont have to build a direct link for each new brand, etc.

Now i've just barely tapped into this, but found the code that brings up the categories, no problem:

{assign var="tmp" value="0"}
{section name=cat_num loop=$subcategories}
{if $subcategories[cat_num].category}{assign var="tmp" value="1"}{/if}
{/section}
{if $subcategories}
<TABLE border="0" cellspacing="5" width="100%">
{foreach from=$subcategories item=subcat}
<TR>
{if $tmp and $first_subcat ne "Y"}
{assign var="first_subcat" value="Y"}
{/if}
	<TD align="left" width="95%"><FONT class="ItemsList">{ $subcat.category|escape }</FONT>
</TD>
</TR>
{/foreach}
</TABLE>
{/if}

So what line(s) do i need to change so it brings up lets say, the subcategories to cat=3? If I figure it out first, I'll be sure to post the answer. Thank you for your time!

yoshitoshi

[balinor]

Not sure I follow what you are trying to achieve? Also, if you could please put your X-Cart version in your signature per the forum rules that would be great. Thanks!

[yoshitoshi]

sure thing. For the time being, I am manually inputting the subcategories under the categories. For my site the categories are:
Brands
Womens
Mens
Music
Home

Under Brands, I have additional sub-categories, like Brand1, brand2, brand3, etc. I would like to have that part dynamically change with whatever i do in the admin panel. Instead of using static links like i will to start off with, I'd like for the subcategories to be automatically inserted underneath the brands menu. I messed around with this for some time last night and got nowhere unfortunately. Thanks again for any help.

[balinor]

Ahh...you want this mod:

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=12058

Read through it, it gets better the further you go

[yoshitoshi]

sounds exactly what i was looking for. Thank you!