how would I make the categories expand?

That's fantastic. Thanks for your help.

One last option would be great. That if you click on a catagory or subcatagory, that catagory or the catagory that the subcat belongs to if the only one showing in the catagories box with a single "view all catagories" link at the very top to bring someone back to show all catagories.

I hope I make sense. I take it that's not possible yet?

It couldn't be achieved with the current available settings alone.

Switching from a "top + first subs" view when no cats have been clicked to some variety of "active tree only" view when a cat is active could be done in categories_dressing_defines.php by adding another case with appropriate coding to the cat_active_level_manage() function.

Getting the "view all" button when a cat is active would be trickier, and I would have to think about the best way to do that.

This may do the control you want. I have not tested it; try it and let me know if there is a problem.

PHP Code:

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      case 6://like 4, per level when none active
        if($cPath_top == 0){
          $test_level = 1;
          break;
        }
        if($cPath_top == $path_top){
          if ($cat_depth >= 2){//only test sub-subcats+
            $path_ids = explode('_',$path);
            $path_parent = $path_ids[count($path_ids)-2];
            if (!in_array($path_parent,explode('_',$_GET['cPath']))) $skip_cat = 1;//show only subcats w parent in $cPath
          }
        } else {//if not active test for level
          $skip_cat = 1;
        }
        break; 


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Thanks again. Where would I add this? I'm sure it's obvious but I know nothing about php.

Tim.

OK, edit /includes/functions/extra_functions/categories_dressing_functions.php, and add it after the "case 5" code block.

PHP Code:

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      case 5:// show active, no top, per levels
        if ($cat_depth == 0 or $cPath_top != $path_top) {
          $skip_cat = 1;
        }else{
          $test_level = 1;
        }
        break;
      case 6://like 4, per level when none active
        if($cPath_top == 0){
          $test_level = 1;
          break;
        }
        if($cPath_top == $path_top){
          if ($cat_depth >= 2){//only test sub-subcats+
            $path_ids = explode('_',$path);
            $path_parent = $path_ids[count($path_ids)-2];
            if (!in_array($path_parent,explode('_',$_GET['cPath']))) $skip_cat = 1;//show only subcats w parent in $cPath
          }
        } else {//if not active test for level
          $skip_cat = 1;
        }
        break;  
    }//switch 


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Then edit the define with '6|0|1'.

It works perfectly. Amazing, thank you!

Glad it's working. Would you mind letting me see the site?

It's not a live site as you can see. There is still alot of work to be done and I have yet to change the colors in the menu. On that, is it possible to change the background color of a subcat only when it is active?

The right hand menu is also just temporary.

http://www.lowpricedhardware.ie/

You can highlight the current category path with these selectors (already in your stylesheet_chcategories_dressing.css):

#chcategories li a.cat-selected-text {}
#chcategories li a.cat-parent-text {}

Thanks yet again.

I'm sure I'm missing something very obvious but how do I change the font, and background color of the main cat headings? And the backgund color of the subcats?