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[Impact_1]

As above, I would really like a menu like that.

[Mr Bob]

{* $Id: left_subcategories.tpl,v 1.00.0.0 2005/11/24 04:10:00 mclap Exp $ *}
	  <div id="siteBodyLeftSubCats">
        <div id="siteBodyLeftSubCatsTitle">
          <div id="siteBodyLeftSubCatsTitleLeft"></div>
          {$current_category_top.category}
          <div id="siteBodyLeftSubCatsTitleRight"></div>
        </div>
        <ul class="subNav">
          
{section name=cat_num loop=$allcategories}
{if $allcategories[cat_num].parentid eq $location[1].1|replace:"home.php?cat=":""}
          <li class="subNavLink">{ $allcategories[cat_num].category|escape } {if $config.Appearance.count_products eq "Y"}{if $subcat.product_count}({ $subcat.product_count }){/if}{/if}
{/if}
{/section}
          [/list]        <div id="siteBodyLeftSubCatsLL"></div>
        <div id="siteBodyLeftSubCatsLR"></div>
      </div>

First, my code above displays all the time, everytime. I need an if statement that will only display after you have clicked on a category. Once you click on a category, the code above should display.

Next, I need to name the subcategory that they selected. I tried {$current_category_top.category} which didn't work. Then I tried {$current_category.category} which just displays the name of the item you are on. If I click on a sub cat, it will display the sub cat name, then if I click on a product, it will display the product name. I only want it to display the sub cat name for the 2nd level sub cat.

[fernando]

I solved that by using a cookie. When I'm browsing a category, I'll create a cookie (e.g. X_CURRENT_CATEGORY). Then, when I'm in a product, I just retrieve the value of the cookie.

BTW: this is very useful if you want to add a Keep Shopping button on cart.php. You click it, and return to the last category you were on. If you want to refine it even more, you could even add an X_CURRENT_CATEGORY_PAGE cookie

Regards

[Mr Bob]

I'd rather not use a cookie. You should be able to do this easily using some logic statements, but I just don't know what the variables are in xcart.

[Mr Bob]

Anyone?

[Mr Bob]

This seems to work just fine

{if $main ne "catalog" and $current_category.category eq ""}
{else}
{include file="customer/main/left_subcategories.tpl"}
{/if} 

The only problem is that I want the title of the subcategories (in the code in my last post) to show the sub cat title, not the product title.

[Hyperdelicious]

Had this working with x-cart 4.0.13 however does not seem to work when upgrading to x-cart 4.1.0 ... any ideas?

[bycv]

Hello Fernando,

I have used your code

  
{if $config.General.root_categories eq "Y"} 
{section name=cat_num loop=$categories} 
<FONT class="CategoriesList">{$categories[cat_num].category}</FONT>
 
{* Added by Fernando. Show first level of subcategories *} 
{if $current_category ne "" } 
  {section name=subcat loop=$allcategories} 
{assign var=topmostcat value=$allcategories[subcat].categoryid_path|regex_replace:"/\/.*/":""} 
{assign var=current_category_top value=$current_category.categoryid_path|regex_replace:"/\/.*/":""} 
    {if $current_category_top eq $topmostcat and $categories[cat_num].categoryid eq $topmostcat and $allcategories[subcat].parentid eq $topmostcat and $allcategories[subcat].categoryid ne $current_category_top} 
      {$allcategories[subcat].category|truncate:20:"...":true}
 
    {/if} 
  {/section} 
{/if} 
{* End added by Fernando *} 

{/section}

Thank you so much. It really helped me a lot.

Is there any way to use the same thing a second time with the first or top subcategory intead of the top category? or to say second from the top of the category tree?

Thank you in advance.

[Sarnix]

As Hyperdelicious said, it doesnt seem to be working in x-cart 4.1.
I believe there are only 2 arrays present in the template that contain categories.
* $categories, which contains the toplevel categories.
* $subcategories, which contains the subcategories of the current category.
Is this correct?
And if it is I assume the only thing get the subcats of the parent category is to perform an extra query and assign the results to smarty?

I think the nicest thing to use would be that the category structure is available as a tree

[Hollistergj]

Has anyone been able to figure out how to do this in 4.1?