Sub Categories

[Nick1973]

Hi I have a cart set up with 5 categories and sub categories below them.

The sub categories are the full alphabet A,B,C,D,E,F etc

Each letter will contain a list of plants.

I'm trying to display the sub categories in a horizontal line across the main category page and on the sub category pages. I would like to know which piece of code I need in order to do this.

So in effect you will have something like

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Each will link each plant type sub category.

Thanks

Nick

[kobra]

You might try another approach - -
Try making the manufacturer "A" - "B" - etc

You will have to change the language from manufacturer to ?? but you can do that later if this appears to work as intended

[Nick1973]

I see what your saying, however I need an ABC system in each category.

So

Perennials > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Shrubs > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Vegetable Plants > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Fruit Trees > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Trees > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ


They have to be sub categories of each product due to the way they're being entered.

I've resorted to editing the code in category_row.php as this places the categories on each page and the ABC categories don't need an image.

This is where I'm at with the code -

<?php
/**
* index category_row.php
*
* Prepares the content for displaying a category's sub-category listing in grid format.
* Once the data is prepared, it calls the standard tpl_list_box_content template for display.
*
* @package page
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: category_row.php 4084 2006-08-06 23:59:36Z drbyte $
*/
if (!defined('IS_ADMIN_FLAG')) {
die('Illegal Access');
}
$title = '';
$num_categories = $categories->RecordCount();

$row = 0;
$col = 0;
$list_box_contents = '';
if ($num_categories > 0) {
if ($num_categories < MAX_DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_PER_ROW || MAX_DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_PER_ROW == 0) {
$col_width = floor(100/$num_categories);
} else {
$col_width = floor(100/MAX_DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_PER_ROW);
}

while (!$categories->EOF) {
if (!$categories->fields['categories_image']) !$categories->fields['categories_image'] = 'pixel_trans.gif';
$cPath_new = zen_get_path($categories->fields['categories_id']);

// strip out 0_ from top level cats
$cPath_new = str_replace('=0_', '=', $cPath_new);

// $categories->fields['products_name'] = zen_get_products_name($categories->fields['products_id']);

$list_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('params' => '',
'text' => '<li>' . '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $categories->fields['categories_image'], $categories->fields['categories_name'], SUBCATEGORY_IMAGE_WIDTH, SUBCATEGORY_IMAGE_HEIGHT) . '' . $categories->fields['categories_name'] . '</a>' . '</li>');

$col ++;
if ($col > (MAX_DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_PER_ROW -1)) {
$col = 0;
$row ++;
}
$categories->MoveNext();
}
}
?>


My plan is to use CSS to force the <li> tags I've added to display inline. However, there is a problem I'm struggling to work around and thats the fact that there's a <br class="clearBoth" /> in the code. I think this is coming from tpl_columnar_display.php but I can't edit this as this will affect other files associated with it.

So my thoughts are to put a CSS around the code OR a table with CSS in it to eliminate the <br class="clearBoth" /> tag and force the <li> tags to display inline.

What do you think?

[Nick1973]

or do you know where i can find the document that controls the amount of category columns? The default is 3 so how would I set it to 24? If I can do this then it will save me alot of hassle

[Nick1973]

I believe I've sorted this now. Will post my solution shortly :-)