category point to an Ez-page?

[gmartakis]

Hi everyone,
I just have a question for you, I have just implemented a site with zen cart www.pelagosmarine.gr. I have just embeded the categories inside the first page with their images and their descriptions from a file which is located into modules folder category_row.php. Now I'am trying to change the target link of the 3th category to point to an ez-page.
just read the code below

while (!$categories->EOF) {
if (!$categories->fields['categories_image']) !$categories->fields['categories_image'] = 'pixel_trans.gif';
$categories_description = zen_get_category_description($categories->fields['categories_id'], $_SESSION['languages_id']);

$cPath_new = zen_get_path($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']);
?>
<div id="categorylist">
<div class="dosomething">

<?php
$description = substr($categories_description, 0, 150);
//echo strlen($description);
//if($language_id == 1){
if(strlen($categories_description) < 150)
{

if($cPath_new == 3)
{
$list_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('params' => '"' . ' ' . 'style="width:' . $col_width . '%;"',
'text' => '<br><a href="http://www.pelagosmarine.gr/index.php?main_page=page&id=42">' . '<span>' . $categories->fields['categories_name'] . '</span></a><br><br>'. zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $categories->fields['categories_image'], $categories->fields['categories_name'], SUBCATEGORY_IMAGE_WIDTH, SUBCATEGORY_IMAGE_HEIGHT) . '<br /><br><div class="moreinfo">' . $description. '</div><br>');

}
$list_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('params' => '"' . ' ' . 'style="width:' . $col_width . '%;"',
'text' => '<br><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new) . '">' . '<span>' . $categories->fields['categories_name'] . '</span><br><br>'. zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $categories->fields['categories_image'], $categories->fields['categories_name'], SUBCATEGORY_IMAGE_WIDTH, SUBCATEGORY_IMAGE_HEIGHT) . '<br /></a><br><div class="moreinfo">' . $description. '</div><br>');


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

I know for sure that the variable for the category is $cPath_new and the category_id is 3. But I cannot get it right for some reason... what I'm missing here? Could you please advice me?

[gmartakis]

Any help would be apreciated!!

[dgent]

Can I ask why? You could make a category page have any content you like, ie look like an EZ page.

[gmartakis]

Because the customer wants to have briefings on the first page and I dont know how I could embed some of the ezpages into the first page to look like briefings. I told him that he could actually have this category as a regular ezpage but it doesn't listen to me

[gjh42]

You are using the right variable for your test, but it does not contain just the cPath number(s). As indicated by this line

$cPath_new = str_replace('=0_', '=', $cPath_new);

'=0_' is being replaced by '=', and the whole content is like 'cPath=3' for your case.
Your test should be

if($cPath_new == 'cPath=3')