Sub Category Drop Down Menu

[samhughey]

• I am using 1.3.9h.
• No upgrade.
• No addons installed.
• Customized header, footer, product listing, product display (everything is working just fine).
• I've searched for this but found nothing, at least nothing which matched my search.
• No Problems to report.

Please excuse me if this is in the wrong place. What I'm looking for is (if there even is one) a drop down menu displayed on each category page which lists the subcategories. An example of what I'm looking for is found here

When Book (in the sidebar) is clicked on, a list of All Books in that category are listed but the Filter by: drop down menu at the top right lets you select a specific subcategory which shows all in that subcategory when clicked.

Does anyone know of something like this for Zen Cart?

Thanks,
Sam

[haredo]

Click the link on this page called: Free Software Add Ons

Search for:

Category Drop Down

[samhughey]

haredo,

Thanks for a quick response. That's almost what I'm looking for except for two problems. 1. I would like to have it for sub-categories only and 2. appearing on the Product Listing page above all the products instead of in the sidebar. Sorry to be so picky. However, this is about the closest I've seen so far.

Thanks,
Sam

[haredo]

Well you can always submit your idea here:

https://www.odesk.com/contractors/sk...qs=zencart,&c1

[samhughey]

Thanks, I'll look into this. I was thinking about this and realized the functionality is already in Zen Cart. There is a drop down filter by menu but it doesn't have categories or sub-categories in it. Do you (or someone) know how (if) the menu selections can be changed?

Sam

[gjh42]

Categories Dressing is settable to display only certain levels of categories. It is built for the sidebar, but could probably be modified or applied to the center column (I haven't investigated the changes that would be required for this).

[samhughey]

gjh42,

If you ever do investigate this possibility please share it!

Thanks,
Sam

[gjh42]

You can make the stock subcategory listing act like a dropdown just by adding these rules to your stylesheet:

.categoryListBoxContents {display: none;}
#indexCategories:hover .categoryListBoxContents {display: block; clear: left; background: #aabbcc; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 0.8em;}
.categoryListBoxContents img {display: none;}

To get more attractive and useful function, you can add a div or two to the code so the listing is enclosed in a relevant container, or otherwise alter the structure to fit your purposes.

[samhughey]

gjh42,

I'll give this a try.

Thanks,
Sam