Hide link in navigation bar.

[sports guy]

I am trying to display most top category links in the top navigation bar but hide 5 of them. Then in my left hand navigation box display (Better Categories) I want to hide the opposite categories.

Please look at my template here: http://www.lasilhouettelingerie.com/...age=2&sort=20a

My main categories are:
Pleasure Objects, Hosiery, Accessories, Clothing, Lingerie, Swimwear, Sale, Shop by Category, Shop by Designer, Shop by Price, Shop by Color, Shop by Size

On the top menu I want to hide all "shop by" menu items. Meaning my top category display would only show:
Pleasure Objects, Hosiery, Accessories, Clothing, Lingerie, Swimwear, Sale

On the left hand navigation block I want to display only these other 5 main categories:
Shop by Category, Shop by Designer, Shop by Price, Shop by Color, Shop by Size

I tried to install a module called: Hidden Categories (even though it was for version 1.3.9) to hide aspects of one of these menus, but it ran into difficulty with merging since this shared many of my files with my other plugins. Like: Ultimate SEO's, FEC, and My template files. There were too many files to merge and my PHP was getting jumbled. (I don't know much about PHP to begin with).

Any ideas?

[gjh42]

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...e-category-tab

I do have the files made up for a mod, but have not tested the package yet. If you want, I can zip them up and post for you to try.

To hide the other categories in the sidebox, you can use Categories Dressing and make the ones you want to hide into one or more category groups, then hide those with CSS.

[sports guy]

Yes I think I would love the files for that mod please. I will test it to see if it works. Although, I may not be the best tester because I will just put it up there and see if it hides and/or shows. I know nothing about debugging.

I thought that I could just put the EZ page menu up top (like I have on the bottom) and just manually create each catalog link using the URL feature in EZ pages to direct to the correct page. The problem with this, is that I would like to put a dynamic menu up there to show all the subcategories when hovered over. So if I can hide these few links, then I will search out the dynamic menu I am seeking.

In the meantime, I am going to attempt your suggestions for hiding the side categories via Categories Dressing plugin.

[gjh42]

I attached the mod to the thread referenced before, so you can get it from there. It will not hide anything just by itself; you need to add rules to your stylesheet (duplicating/editing the ones given) to do the hiding for the particular categories.

[sports guy]

Thank you I posted in the forum with the Mod providing feedback. It's running great!

[sports guy]

gjh42,

First you done a wonderful job on this module you provided. I am sorry to bring this up, but I thought I would ask. What I am talking about is, if possible, I would like to implement your: "Category Tab Dressing v10 - Beta" into "Category Tab Simple Dropdown Menu v.1.3.9a" Since there were only a few files for both (and one of them shared), I thought I might be able to do this easily.

I tried many things, but I do not know php. What I ended up with was merging the shared files together into one page, in an effort to get the dynamic drop down menu and hide the 5 "shop by" categories. It doesn't seem to be working for me.

Right now I have both menus loaded onto my site you can see it here: http://www.lasilhouettelingerie.com/...hosiery-c-141/ I really love the dynamic drop-down, but I also have to hide 5 categories somehow.

Is there a fairly simple merge possible?

[gjh42]

It should be simple, as there are only about three lines in two files modified for this. Which file do they share?

[sports guy]

It should be simple, as there are only about three lines in two files modified for this. Which file do they share?

They both share tpl_modules_categories_tabs.php in the ../templates/MYTEMPLATE/templates folder. Below I have posted both shared files (tpl_categories_tabs.php) for the prospective plugins.

As you know, in the module: "Category Tab Dressing v10 - Beta" you created this code which hides the links:

<?php
/**
 * Module Template - categories_tabs
 *
 * Template stub used to display categories-tabs output
 *
 * @package templateSystem
 * @copyright Copyright 2003-2005 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: tpl_modules_categories_tabs.php 3395 2006-04-08 21:13:00Z ajeh $
 * modified for Categories-Tabs Dressing by Glenn Herbert (gjh42) 2012-11-09  (line 22)
 */

  include(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory(FILENAME_CATEGORIES_TABS));
?>
<?php if (CATEGORIES_TABS_STATUS == '1' && sizeof($links_list) >= 1) { ?>
<div id="navCatTabsWrapper">
<div id="navCatTabs">
<ul>
<?php for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($links_list); $i<$n; $i++) { ?>
  <li class="<?php echo substr($links_list[$i], 23, (strpos($links_list[$i], '" hr', $links_list[$i]) - 23));?>"><?php echo $links_list[$i];?></li>
<?php } ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<?php } ?>

And in the module: "Category Tab Simple Dropdown Menu v.1.3.9a" we have this code which provides the dynamic drop-down menus (and a few css definitions elsewhere):

<?php
/**
 * Module Template - categories_tabs with dropdown product menus
 *
 * Template stub used to display categories-tabs output
 *
 * @package templateSystem
 * @copyright Copyright 2003-2005 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: tpl_modules_categories_tabs.php 3395 2011-06-10 21:13:00Z dbltoe $
 */
?>
<?php
if (CATEGORIES_TABS_STATUS == '1') 
{
    echo '<div id="navCatTabsWrapper">';
    echo '<div id="navCatTabsDropdown">';
    echo '<ul>';

    $categories_tab_query = "SELECT c.categories_id, cd.categories_name FROM ".TABLE_CATEGORIES." c, ".TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd WHERE c.categories_id=cd.categories_id AND c.parent_id= '0' AND cd.language_id='" . (int)$_SESSION['languages_id'] . "' AND c.categories_status='1' ORDER BY c.sort_order, cd.categories_name;";
    $categories_tab = $db->Execute($categories_tab_query);

    while (!$categories_tab->EOF) 
    {
    // currently selected category
        echo '<li>';
        echo '<a class="category-top" href="'.zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT,'cPath=' . (int)$categories_tab->fields['categories_id']).'">'; 
        if((int)$cPath == $categories_tab->fields['categories_id']) 
         echo '<span class="category-subs-selected">'.$categories_tab->fields['categories_name'].'</span>';
        else 
         echo $categories_tab->fields['categories_name'];

        echo '</a>';
        $subcategories_tab_query="SELECT c.categories_id, cd.categories_name FROM ".TABLE_CATEGORIES." c, ".TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd WHERE c.categories_id=cd.categories_id AND c.parent_id= '".(int)$categories_tab->fields['categories_id']."' AND cd.language_id='" . (int)$_SESSION['languages_id'] . "' AND c.categories_status='1' ORDER BY c.sort_order, cd.categories_name;";
        $subcategories_tab=$db->Execute($subcategories_tab_query);
        if($subcategories_tab->RecordCount()>0)
        {
            echo '<ul>';
            while (!$subcategories_tab->EOF) 
            {
                $cPath_new=zen_get_path($subcategories_tab->fields['categories_id']);
                $cPath_new=str_replace('=0_', '=', $cPath_new);
                $cPath_new="cPath=".$subcategories_tab->fields['categories_id'];
                echo '<li>'.'<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new) . '">'.$subcategories_tab->fields['categories_name'].'</a></li>';
                $subcategories_tab->MoveNext();
            }
            echo '</ul>';
        }
        $products_tab_query="SELECT p.`products_id`, pd.`products_name`, pd.`language_id` FROM ".TABLE_PRODUCTS." p, ".TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION." pd WHERE p.`master_categories_id`='".(int)$categories_tab->fields['categories_id']."' AND p.`products_id`=pd.`products_id` AND p.products_status='1' AND pd.`language_id`='".(int)$_SESSION['languages_id']."' ORDER BY p.`products_sort_order`;";
        $products_tab=$db->Execute($products_tab_query);
        if($products_tab->RecordCount()>0)
        {
            echo '<ul>';
            while (!$products_tab->EOF) 
            {    
                $cPath_new=zen_get_path($categories->fields['categories_id']);
                $cPath_new=str_replace('=0_', '=', $cPath_new);
                echo '<li>'.'<a href="'.zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($products_tab->fields['products_id']),$cPath_new. '&products_id=' . $products_tab->fields['products_id']) . '">'.$products_tab->fields['products_name'].'</a></li>';
                $products_tab->MoveNext();
            }
            echo '</ul>';
        }
        echo '</li>';
        $categories_tab->MoveNext();
    }
    echo '</ul>';
    echo '</div>';
    echo '</div>';
}
?>

I tried to merge both files by putting all the code, but both menus showed instead of a merge. As you know the: "Category Tab Dressing v10 - Beta" also has the includes/modules/MYTEMPLATE/categories_tabs.php file as well. If this can be done it would be awesome!

[gjh42]

<li class="<?php echo substr($links_list[$i], 23, (strpos($links_list[$i], '" hr', $links_list[$i]) - 23));?>"><?php echo $links_list[$i];?></li>
This part of the simple dropdown file needs to be edited to add the class tag to the <li>:

    while (!$categories_tab->EOF) 
    {
    // currently selected category
        echo '<li>'; 

    while (!$categories_tab->EOF) 
    {
    // currently selected category
        echo '<li class="<?php echo substr($links_list[$i], 23, (strpos($links_list[$i], '" hr', $links_list[$i]) - 23));?>">';

This should work as long as the simple dropdown does not alter how $links_list is built, and lets the cat-tabs dressing do it.

[sports guy]

Glen please forgive me for being ignorant, I am getting many PHP syntax errors in dreamweaver.

In my dynamic drop-down file, I took this code:

while (!$categories_tab->EOF) 
    {
    // currently selected category
        echo '<li>';

and changed it to this:

while (!$categories_tab->EOF)  
    { 
    // currently selected category 
        echo '<li class="<?php echo substr($links_list[$i], 23, (strpos($links_list[$i], '" hr', $links_list[$i]) - 23));?>">';

as you suggested. But almost every other line below this registered errors in Dreamweaver.

Now with the next few lines it looks like this:

while (!$categories_tab->EOF) 
    {
    // currently selected category
        echo '<li class="<?php echo substr($links_list[$i], 23, (strpos($links_list[$i], '" hr', $links_list[$i]) - 23));?>">';
        echo '<a class="category-top" href="'.zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT,'cPath=' . (int)$categories_tab->fields['categories_id']).'">'; 
        if((int)$cPath == $categories_tab->fields['categories_id']) 
         echo '<span class="category-subs-selected">'.$categories_tab->fields['categories_name'].'</span>';
        else 
         echo $categories_tab->fields['categories_name'];

        echo '</a>';

Is there an issue with syntax above? There are approximately 20 lines below this now with red error coding. I don't know my symbols but I suspect one of the symbols above may be wrong?