Better Categories Contrib & ezpages

[heavenlynights]

Seeing that this has been a rather popular mod and I have been kept busy emailing it, Click below for the zip file if you need it!! Cheers


Bettercategoriesfix.zip

Hi There

There are a number of files to that you will need for this. I have the updated bettercategorie.zip files but I will need to send it to you as I don't think that the contributions section is open to public. In order for me to send you this zip, please pm me.

[Wils]

GREAT contrib!!

Minor glitch; in includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE

rename information.php.php to information.php.

[gilby]

Seeing that this has been a rather popular mod and I have been kept busy emailing it, Click below for the zip file if you need it!! Cheers

Bettercategoriesfix.zip

Thanks for this, works well & validates as well!!

Have installed it at
www.mypandora.com.au

In firefox 1.5 all works well.

in IE6 the rollovers work in the categories, but in the ezpages & information sidebox the rollovers only work on the text and not on the empty space in the cells

I don't see what is causing this in IE6. Any ideas?

[heavenlynights]

In firefox 1.5 all works well.

in IE6 the rollovers work in the categories, but in the ezpages & information sidebox the rollovers only work on the text and not on the empty space in the cells

I don't see what is causing this in IE6. Any ideas?

I am not sure either, didn't realise there was a problem with it till you pointed it out. I hate the fact that there are so many browsers as none of them are ever consistant with each other.

BTW nice job!! How did you get your ezpages to have the better categories? did you use monkeymaddness's suggestion?

[gilby]

I am not sure either, didn't realise there was a problem with it till you pointed it out. I hate the fact that there are so many browsers as none of them are ever consistant with each other.

BTW nice job!! How did you get your ezpages to have the better categories? did you use monkeymaddness's suggestion?

around lines 14-16 in tpl_ezpages.php find

  for ($i=1, $n=sizeof($var_linksList); $i<=$n; $i++) { 
    $content .= '<li><a class="a-ezylinks" href="' . $var_linksList[$i]['link'] . '">' . $var_linksList[$i]['name'] . '</a></li>' . "\n" ;
  } // end FOR loop

replace with

  for ($i=1, $n=sizeof($var_linksList); $i<=$n; $i++) { 
    $content .= '<li><div class="betterCategories"><a class="a-ezylinks" href="' . $var_linksList[$i]['link'] . '">' . $var_linksList[$i]['name'] . '</a></div></li>' . "\n" ;
  } // end FOR loop

you wrap the <a class=... ...</a>
with <div class="betterCategories"> and </div>

Put in your override directory of course.

[heavenlynights]

Thanks so much gilby. Your a goddess. This was the initial reason I posted thread for. Great feeling to have closure.

[gilby]

Thanks so much gilby. Your a goddess. This was the initial reason I posted thread for. Great feeling to have closure.

I hope not!!, a god maybe

But check it out www.mypandora.com.au

The rollovers now work for the information & ezypages in IE6!!

The fix is to add an image to the link like in the categories sidebox, then IE6 treats the whole cell as a rollover. I used the same image as the categories used as a quick fix, in my case a 1x1 transparent pixel.

Now to get some sleep its 1am here

[heavenlynights]

I hope not!!, a god maybe

sorry about that. That happened to me earlier in the thread. Maybe there should be a mention of what gender people are in the little sidebox next to the post.

The rollovers now work for the information & ezypages in IE6!!

The fix is to add an image to the link like in the categories sidebox, then IE6 treats the whole cell as a rollover. I used the same image as the categories used as a quick fix, in my case a 1x1 transparent pixel.

I understand what you are meaning! however I am not sure how I go about doing this. do I add link via the admin or through stylesheet? or fiddling with the files. As you tell I am one of these people that need hand feeding

TIA

[gilby]

It seems that for IE6 if only text is used then the text only is used for the link.
but if part of the link is a graphic then the graphic & the text & the any whitespace is also considered part of the link, so the whole cell is used as the link.
FF 1.5 considers all of the cell is the link regardless.
Not sure which is the correct way it is supposed to work.

Attached are tpl_ezpages.php & tpl_information.php updated to include a graphic which in this case is the default graphic used for the BetterCategories. You could change the name of the graphic to use a different one for all 3 sideboxes.


Cheers

[patski]

Many thanks very much for updating this - it now validates perfectly and I like the information page mod too!