Simple/HTML Image Gallery

[MegamanX]

Basically I want to create a pictures catalog with categories.
So I would need a custom link (which ive already figured this out. you can create one by going to includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_categories.php
and adding to the content on 11th line some html code.
Next I would need some kind of a wrapper (this feature you can find in Joomla) so my set of html pages will be displayed inside ZenCart, right?

How do I pull this off?!



And another (yet might be simple) issue is that Quantity Box still pops up even though I choose "No, Do not show Quantity Box" when creating a new product?

Help would be appreciated.

[gjh42]

Use ez-pages for your custom pages. You can add their content in admin > Tools > EZ-Pages, and connect them all to a TOC chapter. This will allow just one or two of them to be linked from the sidebox, while the rest show up in the TOC when you are in the group.

In tpl_categories.php, use the built-in function to get the links:

<?php echo zen_ezpages_link(23); ?>

where 23 is replaced by the ez-page id. (If your file code location is already inside php tags, omit the ones shown here.)

Also, in case you didn't already know this, never alter the content of a file in /template_default/. Copy the file to your custom template directory and edit there.

[MegamanX]

Use ez-pages for your custom pages. You can add their content in admin > Tools > EZ-Pages, and connect them all to a TOC chapter. This will allow just one or two of them to be linked from the sidebox, while the rest show up in the TOC when you are in the group.

In tpl_categories.php, use the built-in function to get the links:

<?php echo zen_ezpages_link(23); ?>

where 23 is replaced by the ez-page id. (If your file code location is already inside php tags, omit the ones shown here.)

Also, in case you didn't already know this, never alter the content of a file in /template_default/. Copy the file to your custom template directory and edit there.

Now I got more confused, okey, could please have a look here: http://3d-ages.com/index.php?main_page=page_2
this is the define_page_2.php content from the define pages editor. That would be the main page of the gallery.
So next I need to create another HTML or PHP pages so the 1st and the 2nd categories would go somewhere, but still staying inside the center column of ZenCart?
Comments please!

[MegamanX]

I just need users to go to some category, click on a desired picture which pops up, so the user can save it on his/her computer without additional fuss.

[MegamanX]

I got it!!!

...now the olnly thing left is to find a way to put a link in categories side-box, I managed to put a custom link, but, ABOVE the side-box

How do I put it INSIDE the side-box?)) File tpl_categories.php, I know, but where exactly, which line?

[gjh42]

Add your link in /includes/templates/your_template/sideboxes/tpl_categories.php, immediately after this line:

  $content .= '<div id="' . str_replace('_', '-', $box_id . 'Content') . '" class="sideBoxContent">' . "\n"; 

  $content .= '<a href="index.php?main_page=page_2">Custom Page</a>';