Expanded Category List by Anant Bhatia - question

[comicart]

Hey folks! I was reading about the Expanded Category List shown here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=392

It seems like many of you use it.

The "readme.txt" file says he will be uploading another sidebox with includes only categories and sub-categories (no products).
Does anybody know where that is or if anything like that exists? I would like to show both categories and sub-categories in my sidebox.

Terry


Using:
ZC 1.3.8 - fresh install
with PureOrange Template

[bodyjewelrystores]

Hi Terry,

Just came across your question - hope this is still relevant. You can make a simple change to this contribution, which will remove the products and keep only the categories and sub-categories.

Edit the file includes/classes/category_list.php

Find line #82 - it should look like this:

$this->build_products($category_id, $category_link,$level); 

Simply comment it out by adding a double-slash at the beginning:

// $this->build_products($category_id, $category_link,$level); 

Save, upload and test - the sidebox should be product-free now.
Hope this helps

[lexxymark]

I really like this mod! however, I'm wondering how to get it to NOT show the categories that are turned off. It seems to show everything. Right now I don't want to show my holiday cat, but I will in Dec.

Thanks!

[gjh42]

Do you want to show the products? If not, there are other mods that will work more in line with ZC settings, like fragfutter's Uncollapsed Categories Tree (available from his site, or bundled with Categories Dressing where it will generate a correct <ul> list).

[annnika]

Hi gjh42,

Might you be able to answer my question wrt the Expanded Category List module?! Desperately need guidance, this is for a client so will make a contribution for a little support :-)

1.) A problem: no products are displayed, only cats & sub-cats! Any known issues/adminsettings you are aware of that might be causing this?

2.) And further - Ultimately I wish to display the list elsewhere within zencart content pages and select the categories/sub-categories of which products to list. Could you advice please:

a) which code sniplet can i grab to display the tree elsewhere in other files (other than side box), or do I need to create a whole new set of files/pages or as a non-sidebox module?
b) is it possible to tell the module to list sub-categories and products under certain sub-cat only, say category_id '160'?

Thank you kindly!

Annika

ps. I am sorry to hear the contributor Clyde Jones has suddenly died :-(

[gjh42]

Oh my! So sorry to hear about Clyde.

I am not deeply familiar with the code for this mod, and haven't even looked at it in a year or two. Anything is possible, but I would have to study it quite a bit to advise at this point.