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[Barnastil]

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if someone could tell me if it is possible to put HTML in the "categories" box and how I would go about doing that.

Allow me to explain. What I would like to do is have something similar to this.....


Category
Product
Product
Product
Product
Product
Category
Product
Product
Product
Product
Product
Category

I like how the categories are set up since it is a medical supplement store and people can search according to their ailments, but what I would like to do is have an html link for those who already know what product they want. I know, I know, X cart has a search engine...It was my intention to use it, but this is something the client insists on and heб╢s driving me nuts with it.

Thanks for the help guys and gals.

[shan]

just hard code the links to the categories template

[Barnastil]

See, thatб╢s the thing, I canб╢t find where the category list that I have created is to insert the products inbetween the categories...I guess what I could do is hard code the categories to go to the link where they are found, but I wasnб╢t sure if that would screw up the scheme of things on other pages. I could modify the following in "Customer/Categories.tpl" taking out the bold area and hardcoding HTML to the part where my categories are found, right?

{* $Id: categories.tpl,v 1.23 2004/06/24 09:53:29 max Exp $ *}
{capture name=menu}
{if $active_modules.Fancy_Categories ne ""}
{include file="`$fancycategories_config.modules_path`/fancy_categories.tpl"}
{else}



{if $config.General.root_categories eq "Y"}
{section name=cat_num loop=$categories}
<FONT class="CategoriesList">{$categories[cat_num].category}</FONT>

{/section}



{else} {section name=cat_num loop=$subcategories}
<FONT class="CategoriesList">{$subcategories[cat_num].category}</FONT>

{/section}
{/if}
{/if}
{/capture}
{ include file="menu.tpl" dingbats="dingbats_categorie.gif" menu_title=$lng.lbl_categories menu_content=$smarty.capture.menu }

[shan]

just add links for both the products and the categories if you think they wont be changing much

you got the right template

[Barnastil]

This would present a problem when I want to change languages wouldnб╢t it? I suppose I would have to create variables for each one.