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[tamicampos]

Hello,

I have searched the forum and asked the original poster but have not found an answer or gotten a reply. I added horizontal categories to my site but the links don't work. They are still on the vertical menu also (I wanted to wait to take them off until I got these working) and those work fine. I know how to add a regular link but with the dynamically changing categories, I am lost. I don't want to lose the ability to change category names in the Admin area. Please help.

[Holub]

You should modify /skin1/customer/categories.tpl to horizontal layout. Also you should change the place where this templates including - in /skin1/customer/home.tpl.

[balinor]

Moving to Template Editing, as this is not a bug.

[kube]

Hi tamicampos,

If you want similar functionality to categories.tpl and for them to be displayed horizontally somewhere other than the side columns, for instance, in the main body.

Make a duplicate of categories.tpl and name the duplicate something like categories_horz.tpl

Then inside the categories_horz.tpl replace everything with this...

{capture name=menu}
{if $config.General.root_categories eq "Y"}
{foreach from=$categories item=c}
<span class="CategoriesList"><a href="home.php?cat={$c.categoryid}" class="VertMenuItems">{$c.category}</a></span>
{/foreach}
{else} {foreach from=$subcategories item=c key=catid}
<span class="CategoriesList"><a href="home.php?cat={$catid}" class="VertMenuItems">{$c.category}</a></span>
{/foreach}
{/if}
{/capture}
{ include file="menu.tpl" dingbats="dingbats_categorie.gif" menu_title=$lng.lbl_categories menu_content=$smarty.capture.menu cellpadding=$fc_cellpadding}

and to reference it; plonk the following in a suitable place... (provided that the duplicate was in the same folder as categories.tpl)

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

Hope this helps.

[tamicampos]

Hello,

I moved my categories to horizontal in the head.tpl and it works great for IE but the links do not work in either Firefox or in Safari. Any idea why? Do you know how I can fix that? The other links work fine (home, shopping cart, search, etc.) My URL is www.kookoomonkey.com .

Thanks.

[kube]

The code isn't forming correctly. IE can be forgiving (misleading) in that department. They're outputting like this...
<a href="home.php?cat=103" </a>

Any chance of seeing the code you have entered?

[tamicampos]

Absolutely!! Here it is (fexcerpt from head.tpl)


{*Horizontal Navigation Bar*}
<td class="HeadLine" height="45" align="center">
{if $config.General.root_categories eq "Y"}
{foreach from=$categories item=c}
<a href="home.php?cat={$c.categoryid}" </a>
<font color="99cccc">{$c.category}{if not %categories.last%}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&n bsp;{/if}</font>{/foreach}
{else}
{foreach from=$subcategories item=c key=catid}
<font color="99cccc">{$c.category}{if not %categories.last%}&nbsp;;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;& nbsp;{/if}</font>
{/foreach}
{/if}
{if ($usertype eq "C" || $usertype eq "B") && $all_languages_cnt gt 1}
<form action="home.php" method="get" name="sl_form">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="{$smarty.server.PHP_SELF}?{$smarty.server.Q UERY_STRING|amp}" />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td style="padding-right: 5px;"><b>{$lng.lbl_select_language}:</b></td>
<td><select name="sl" onchange="javascript: this.form.submit();">
{section name=ai loop=$all_languages}
<option value="{$all_languages[ai].code}"{if $store_language eq $all_languages[ai].code} selected="selected"{/if}>{$all_languages[ai].language}</option>
{/section}
</select></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
{else}
&nbsp;
{/if}
</td>
</tr>
{else}

[kube]

Try replacing this part of your code below...

{if $config.General.root_categories eq "Y"}
{foreach from=$categories item=c}
<a href="home.php?cat={$c.categoryid}" </a>
<font color="99cccc">{$c.category}{if not %categories.last%}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&n bsp;{/if}</font>{/foreach}
{else} 
{foreach from=$subcategories item=c key=catid}
<font color="99cccc">{$c.category}{if not %categories.last%}&nbsp;;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;& nbsp;{/if}</font>
{/foreach}
{/if}

With this...

{if $config.General.root_categories eq "Y"}
<span class="catnav">
{foreach from=$categories item=c name=thisloop}
<a href="home.php?cat={$c.categoryid}"{if $smarty.foreach.thisloop.last} class="navlastitem"{/if}>{$c.category}</a>
{/foreach}
</span>
{/if}

Check if it is okay. And if it is, then add this to your css file.

.catnav A, .catnav A:link, .catnav A:visited {
color:#99CCCC;
margin-right:20px;
text-decoration:none;
}
.catnav A:hover {
color:#FF0000;
text-decoration:underline;
}
.catnav A.navlastitem {
margin-right:0px;
}

Hope this helps.

[tamicampos]

This is the error message I got.


Error: Smarty error: [in head.tpl line 71]: syntax error: unexpected {else} (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 46 in /home/cute4uki/public_html/store/Smarty-2.6.12/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /home/cute4uki/public_html/store/var/templates_c/%%68^689^68964653%%head.tpl.php on line 109

[kube]

Hi tami,

The code is a straight swap. It shouldn't produce that result.

If you can, upload a full head.tpl as an attachment and I'll/we'll try to find out where the mistake lies - if you'd like.