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[taltos1]

Hello,
I am very close to finishing the design of my store, but a few things are eluding me. I would like to replace the side cart modules name (Categories, Your Cart, Manufacturers etc) from the actual text to an image. Now, I know that menu.tpl controls how all the side blocks look and each ind. module is also controlled by their respective .tpl. I was able to add images where I want them by editing each respective .tpl and then commenting out
{* $menu_title *} in menu.tpl, but then I also lost the side block text in the Admin area.

What I would like to know is if I can edit the menu.tpl so I can make it call images instead of text with the { $menu_title } is there is an image, but if not then just draw the normal text? Is this possible? Am I making it more complicated then it needs to be?

Thanks so much.

[TelaFirma]

Try this, instead of editing the menu.tpl file change the way that you call it from other templates. For example, in your /customer/home.tpl file there are a few calls to templates that use the menu.tpl file. Lets take for example the Users Online module.

[color=olive]{if $active_modules.Users_online ne ""}
{ include file="modules/Users_online/menu_users_online.tpl" }[/color]

The content that the file above produces is inserted into the menu.tpl file with this line at the bottom of the file:

{ include file="menu.tpl" dingbats="dingbats_authentification.gif" menu_title=$lng.lbl_users_online menu_content=$smarty.capture.menu }

If you would like to use an image as the title just pass that code as the title variable. Something like this:

{ include file="menu.tpl" dingbats="dingbats_authentification.gif" menu_title="<img border=\"0\" src=\"$ImagesDir/my_image.gif\" alt=\"$alt\" width=\"200\" height=\"15\">" menu_content=$smarty.capture.menu }

...of course changing the image name to your image, and the width and height to your width and height.

[taltos1]

I cannot thank you enough, I spent hours on this. Thank you very much.

[TelaFirma]

your welcome...