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[gbut]

Pardon my newbieness - just getting started w/x-cart...

I'm trying to do a conditional in customer/categories.tpl and need to detect current subcategory's parent id. I've seen references in the forums to $current_category.parentid but this isn't working for me (it's null).

Is there a mod I need to make to the query for $categories_data in include/categories.php to include the parent info? I don't see anything in there for parent.

Thanks!

[BCSE]

I think what you are reading is for 4.0.x In 3.x you will need to do some php manipulation to get the data you want. You'll need to parse the category name to find the parent category name, then get the category id from there.

For example if you have this category:

Electronics/TV's/Plasma TV's

the parent category is:

Electronics/TV's

To get that in php you'll need to use one (or more!) of the php string functions. Once you have the parent category name, you can select from the mysql the parent categoryid.

I hope that makes sense. I did some interesting parent category manipulation in this thread:
http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=11857&postdays=0&postorder=asc&hig hlight=categories&start=15

Hope that helps you get started!

Carrie

[balinor]

Welcome Gregg. Please read the forum rules and descriptions prior to posting. I have deleted your other post in the Custom Mods section. That is for completed mods only, not questions. Also, please don't double post. Thanks!

[gbut]

Thanks folks. I've now ugraded to 4.0.12 so I can detect on
$current_category.parentid

Once detected though, I want to display the siblings - the parent category's children. In other words, subcats should display at both levels - standard expand/collapse behavior.

Whether in Animals section or Cats, display:

Animals 
    Cats
    Dogs

When in parent (Animals) I can use:
{section name=subcat_num loop=$subcategories}

That works fine. I'm having trouble with displaying siblings. How do I reference the parent's subcategories?

This doesn't work:
{section name=subcat_num loop=$categories[cat_num].subcategories}

[gbut]

I've got it worked out. Here's the code:

{section name=cat_num loop=$categories}

  <FONT class="CategoriesList">{$categories[cat_num].category}</FONT>


  {if $current_category.categoryid == $categories[cat_num].categoryid}
	
    {section name=subcat_num loop=$subcategories}
    
      <FONT class="CategoriesList"><span class="small">&gt; </span>{$subcategories[subcat_num].category}</FONT>


    {/section}
	
  {elseif $current_category.parentid == $categories[cat_num].categoryid}

    {section name=subcat_num loop=$allcategories}
		
      {if $allcategories[subcat_num].parentid eq $location[1].1|replace:"home.php?cat=":""}

        <FONT class="CategoriesList"><span class="small">&gt; </span>{ $allcategories[subcat_num].category|escape }</font>


      {/if}
			
    {/section}

  {/if}

{/section}

[PaulMc]

Thanks for sharing this solution! Question on the fragment below:

  {elseif $current_category.parentid == $categories[cat_num].categoryid}

    {section name=subcat_num loop=$allcategories}
		
      {if $allcategories[subcat_num].parentid eq $location[1].1|replace:"home.php?cat=":""}

        <FONT class="CategoriesList"><span class="small">&gt; </span>{ $allcategories[subcat_num].category|escape }</font>


      {/if}
			
    {/section}

  {/if}

Please excuse if the question's answer is obvious, but I can't determine why this bit causes display of the subcats in alphabetical order while viewing one of said subcats. Is there a modification which can be made to keep the subcats in preset order (as determined in the admin area)?

Thanks,

Paul