CSS to Control Header

[clydejones]

This is from the "what's new" document from v1.3.5 concerning stylesheets:

CSS-per-page coding changes may affect your stylesheet naming conventions. The naming for category pages now properly uses cPath, like: c_3_10.css, c_31_52_88.css, etc.

I'm guessing that it means you need to specify the complete $cpath for each category/subcategory combination.

For your hardware page

c_1.css would be for your top category.

c_1_17.css would be the first subcategory in that top category.

I'll play around with this a while and see if I can work out something.

In the mean time maybe DrByte can come up with something.

[ideasgirl]

I'm guessing that it means you need to specify the complete $cpath for each category/subcategory combination.

Yes, I've tried that before; but isn't that crazy? if you have 20 categories/subcategories that means 20 additional css + the main + IH + Printer + News + Tabbed +++++ you can end up with 30 css, that's not good from what I've heard.

So we are going backwards here. >>sigh<<

[clydejones]

You're right, it does seem to be taking steps backward.

But, these stylesheets are only picked up when a particular page needs them otherwise they don't show up like the main stylesheet(s)

So you could technically have all those c_??_??.css files on your server but they'd only get called as needed.

In any case, maybe DrByte can come up with something.

[barco57]

I don't see an easy answer to this one but some observations. The stock 1.3.5 install has #headerWrapper and #logoWrapper used in that area and the sophy blue template is made up of tables in the header area. Maybe classing the table in someway would help as currently the only class is "table.header".
I know that this doesn't point to why it changes but it might point in the right direction to fix it.

[tonka]

Has there been any answer to this query? I too am trying to create different headers for different categories. I have searched the forum and have found a quarter of an answer and need a little bit more of a clue. As I understand it, using:

c_??.css // changes to all info pages in a category

I can create a stylesheet for each categories. Now is this c_categoryIDhere.css?What I don't understand, if someone could please clarify, is how do I get zencart to access this stylesheet?

TIA

[clydejones]

I can create a stylesheet for each categories. Now is this c_categoryIDhere.css?What I don't understand, if someone could please clarify, is how do I get zencart to access this stylesheet?

Create your c_??.css and upload it to your server.

Now whenever the page with that category number is called, Zen Cart will automatically access the stylesheet.

This is the code in html_header.php that makes this possible.

/**
 * load stylesheets on a per-page/per-language/per-product/per-manufacturer/per-category basis. Concept by Juxi Zoza.
 */
  $manufacturers_id = (isset($_GET['manufacturers_id'])) ? $_GET['manufacturers_id'] : '';
  $tmp_products_id = (isset($_GET['products_id'])) ? (int)$_GET['products_id'] : '';
  $tmp_pagename = ($this_is_home_page) ? 'index_home' : $current_page_base;
  $sheets_array = array('/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '_stylesheet', 
                        '/' . $tmp_pagename, 
                        '/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '_' . $tmp_pagename, 
                        '/c_' . $cPath,
                        '/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '_c_' . $cPath,
                        '/m_' . $manufacturers_id,
                        '/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '_m_' . (int)$manufacturers_id, 
                        '/p_' . $tmp_products_id,
                        '/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '_p_' . $tmp_products_id
                        );
  while(list ($key, $value) = each($sheets_array)) {
    //echo "<!--looking for: $value-->\n";
    $perpagefile = $template->get_template_dir('.css', DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base, 'css') . $value . '.css';
    if (file_exists($perpagefile)) echo '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="' . $perpagefile .'" />'."\n";
  }

/** 

[tonka]

Clyde!

You are a doll (well, sorta) ;)! Will try this out asap. THANKS so much for the reply!