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[Tim CDN]

Thanks, still working on it. Pretty confusing for a new programmer.

[Victor D]

Three different results can be achieved by following this mod.
What model you are trying to implement?

Real working horse for this mod is the .tpl and .php files modification
CSS is required to specify additional lookout

So if you don't see subcats try to execute cleanup.php on your store or clear templates cache in admin
If it won't improve situation you should revise changes you made to php and tpl one more time

[user1]

Hello there.

First of all I would like to thank Victor D and artmatt for their excellent work and support. I could use some help right now, since I don't have knowledge of html or css.

I want to use the first model that artmatt used in post #1. So I want my Categories panel to show a category's subcategories only when a customer clicks on that category and browses its products. (it's simple, don't you get it?)

I want to go a little bit further and move the subcategory's text and front icon a bit to the right. That way, it will be easier to distinguish the categories from subcategories. I even want to change the icon in front of subcategories.

So I used the following...


In file "include/categories.php" look for the following line: (taken from post #1)

if (!empty($subcategories)) {

and just before it add the following block of code: (taken from post #1)

function func_getallsubcat(){
    $a =func_get_categories_list("", true, "all");
    $b=$a['all_categories'];
    $c=array();
    foreach ($b as $k=>$v){
        if($v['parentid']!="0")
            $c[$v['parentid']][]=$v;
    }
    return $c;
}
$smarty->assign("allsubcategories", func_getallsubcat());

Open file "skin1/customer/categories.tpl"

Add {* at the start of the file and *} at the end of the file. You should have something like this:

{*blah blah
blah blah blah blah 
blah 
blah blah
blah  blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
blah blah 
blah *}

Now, in the end of the file, after *} you must add: (taken from post #5)

{capture name=menu}
    {if $active_modules.Fancy_Categories}
          {include file="modules/Fancy_Categories/categories.tpl"}
          {assign var="additional_class" value="menu-fancy-categories-list"}
    {else}
        {assign var=thiscat value=$cat}
        {assign var=par value=0}
        {foreach from=$categories item=cats}
            {assign var=Mcatid value=$cats.categoryid}
            {foreach from=$allsubcategories.$Mcatid item=subb}
                  {if $subb.categoryid eq $thiscat}
                    {assign var=par value=$subb.parentid}
                  {/if}
            {/foreach}
        {/foreach}
          <ul>
        {foreach from=$categories_menu_list item=c}
              <li><a href="home.php?cat={$c.categoryid}" title="{$c.category|escape}">{$c.category}</a></li>
            {if $c.categoryid eq $par}
                {foreach from=$allsubcategories.$par item=sub}
                    {if $sub.parentid eq $c.categoryid}
                        <li class="subcat"><a href="home.php?cat={$sub.categoryid}" class="subMenuItem">{$sub.category}</a></li>
                    {/if}
                {/foreach}
            {/if}
            {foreach from=$allcategories item=cat}
                {if $cat.parentid eq $c.categoryid}
                    <li class="subcat"><a href="home.php?cat={$cat.categoryid}" class="subMenuItem">{$cat.category}</a></li>
                {/if}
            {/foreach}
        {/foreach}
          </ul>
          {assign var="additional_class" value="menu-categories-list"}
    {/if}
{/capture}
{include file="customer/menu_dialog.tpl" title=$lng.lbl_categories content=$smarty.capture.menu}

And finally, at the end of file "skin1/main.css" add this:

.menu-categories-list ul li.subcat {
  margin-left: 11px;
  background: transparent url(images/category_bullet_invert.gif) no-repeat 8px 5px;
}

Now I have a problem. I have one category :

Name (Position)
Category 1 (Pos. 10)

with four subcategories:

Name (Position)
Alpha (Pos. 10)
Gamma (Pos. 20)
Delta (Pos. 30)
Omega (Pos. 40)

When I click on Category 1 the subcategories appear in correct position order:
Alpha
Gamma
Delta
Omega

When I click on any subcategory the order changes, the subcategories appear in WRONG position order (the new order is alphabetical):
Alpha
Delta
Gamma
Omega

One way of bypassing this it is to assign position to subcategories alphabetically. But I don't like this way. Any idea how to fix this?

Best regards,
Andrew

[Victor D]

try to replace

function func_getallsubcat(){
    $a =func_get_categories_list("", true, "all");
    $b=$a['all_categories'];
    $c=array();
    foreach ($b as $k=>$v){
        if($v['parentid']!="0")
            $c[$v['parentid']][]=$v;
    }
    return $c;
}
$smarty->assign("allsubcategories", func_getallsubcat());

with

function func_getallsubcat(){
    $a =func_get_categories_list("", true);
    $b=$a['all_categories'];
    $c=array();
    foreach ($b as $k=>$v){
        if($v['parentid']!="0")
            $c[$v['parentid']][]=$v;
    }
    return $c;
}
$smarty->assign("allsubcategories", func_getallsubcat());

[user1]

Originally Posted by Victor D

try to replace

function func_getallsubcat(){
    $a =func_get_categories_list("", true, "all");
    $b=$a['all_categories'];
    $c=array();
    foreach ($b as $k=>$v){
        if($v['parentid']!="0")
            $c[$v['parentid']][]=$v;
    }
    return $c;
}
$smarty->assign("allsubcategories", func_getallsubcat());

with

function func_getallsubcat(){
    $a =func_get_categories_list("", true);
    $b=$a['all_categories'];
    $c=array();
    foreach ($b as $k=>$v){
        if($v['parentid']!="0")
            $c[$v['parentid']][]=$v;
    }
    return $c;
}
$smarty->assign("allsubcategories", func_getallsubcat());

Thank you for your answer. Still, I get the same result with this change.

I cleaned up the templates' cache but same result.

You can see the problem in my shop.


Best regards,
Andrew

[Victor D]

finally find some time and get it( Sorting conditions implemented in x-cart by default is strange a bit so I have added resorting).

function func_getallsubcat(){
    $a =func_get_categories_list(null, true,"all");
    $b=$a['all_categories'];
    if (!function_exists("sort_cats")){
        function sort_cats($a, $b) {return $a["order_by"]> $b["order_by"];    }
    }
    uasort($b, "sort_cats");

    $c=array();
    foreach ($b as $k=>$v){
        if($v['parentid']!="0")
            $c[$v['parentid']][]=$v;
    }
    return $c;
}
$smarty->assign("allsubcategories", func_getallsubcat());

[user1]

Originally Posted by Victor D

finally find some time and get it( Sorting conditions implemented in x-cart by default is strange a bit so I have added resorting).

function func_getallsubcat(){
    $a =func_get_categories_list(null, true,"all");
    $b=$a['all_categories'];
    if (!function_exists("sort_cats")){
        function sort_cats($a, $b) {return $a["order_by"]> $b["order_by"];    }
    }
    uasort($b, "sort_cats");

    $c=array();
    foreach ($b as $k=>$v){
        if($v['parentid']!="0")
            $c[$v['parentid']][]=$v;
    }
    return $c;
}
$smarty->assign("allsubcategories", func_getallsubcat());

Excellent. Thank you very much.

To help newbies (like me) a little:

the above code goes in "include/categories.php" in the position described in post#13.

at the end of file "skin1/main.css" I added this:

.menu-categories-list ul li.subcat {
  margin-left: 11px;
  background: transparent url(images/category_bullet_invert.gif) no-repeat 8px 5px;
}

"margin-left: 11px;" means that I move the subcategories beneath the category 11 pixels to the right. Change the number to move it left or right.

"background: transparent url(images/category_bullet_invert.gif) no-repeat 8px 5px;" with this line I changed the image (bold letters) in front of subcategories. To put your own image, put your image in folder "images" and change the image name above.

Thanks goes to everyone that helped.


Best regards,
Andrew

[benz]

To fix the order issue, can you not just change the line from:

PHP Code:

func_get_categories_list("",true,"all"); 


to

PHP Code:

func_get_categories_list("",true,"sub_orderby"); 


Or does this no longer work in 4.2

[Victor D]

There is no such flag in include/func/func_categories.php
I doesn't catch why sorting differs for the root and subcategory. When you browse to subcategory sorting order is changed from order_by to category_path for the same flag.

[benz]

Apologies all, I'd forgotten that I added that flag myself ages ago.

In categories.php around line 68 you can make the following change.
(WARNING - only tested in Xcart 4.1.11)

PHP Code:

if ($current_area == "C" || $current_area == "B") {
        global $user_account;
        $search_condition[] = "$sql_tbl[categories].avail='Y'";
        $search_condition[] = "($sql_tbl[category_memberships].membershipid IS NULL OR $sql_tbl[category_memberships].membershipid = '$user_account[membershipid]')";
        if ($flag == "all")
            $sort_condition = " ORDER BY category";
#Add this line
        elseif ($flag == "sub_orderby")
            $sort_condition = " ORDER BY $sql_tbl[categories].order_by";
#end modification
        else
$sort_condition = " ORDER BY $sql_tbl[categories].order_by, category"; 


In Xcart4.1.11 you can also pass any non-null $flag string to this function call and it will do the same thing without this mod thanks to the last else clause,
eg if you call
$raj =func_get_categories_list("", true,"lorumipsum");
it still works thanks to the last else clause - the bug in the original is that it doesn't work if you leave out the flag parameter.