Is it possible to have two different Prod Listing Layouts?

[Ajeh]

Do you have Categories and Products mixed in Categories?

Categories hold Categories or they hold Products ... they do not hold both at the same time as thing will not function correctly ...

Your Category 6 appears to hold both Products and Categories ...

Separate them properly like they should be, then test ...

Note: $current_category_id is the immediate categories_id for the Products in the products_listing ...

[rwoody]

In regards to the category/product structure - it is correct - Top Category is Candle - which is ID 6 (no products there) Sub Categories - Jar Candles Small cat id = 12 - Jar Candles Medium cat id = 13- Jar Candles Large cat id = 14 - Votives cat id = 24 and Melts cat id 25. All the products are sitting directly in these Sub-Categories.

All products lying in the subcategories under the Top Category of Candle to be in a row layout. All other categories on the site are to be in Columns.

So my questions goes back to under the code you've helped with where the category id listed is to be in rows, will that effect it's direct subcategories also, since that is in fact where the products lie? Based on what I'm seeing the short answer is "no". If that is the case is there a way of writing the category id to be 6_wildcard (the wildcard - whatever symbol that required to represent the subcategories) that will be correctly read by the system? I've included a screen shot of the admin.

Thanks again for assisting with this. If I cannot do this, I'm going to look at the short descriptions mod as the descriptions in this layout are entirely too long for this type of layout as she wishes columns to be 4 across and this will just not work well. It's far too crowded. I'm assuming the short description mod provides for a shorter description for product listing and an expanded version for product detail, is that correct?

Thaks again

[gjh42]

As I alluded to in your other thread, the ereg function can do this wildcard pattern matching.

To match a top cat alone, use "^6$" - the ^ means beginning of string and $ means end of string, thus matching 6 and nothing else.
To match any subcat of 6, use "^6_" - this means starting with 6_ followed by anything or nothing, which will match all subcats etc. but not the top cat.
To match both cases, use "(^6$|^6_)" - this means matching either the first or second pattern separated by |.

I'm not sure what the format is for $current_category_id - whether it matches $cPath for subcats or what... this wants Ajeh's expertise.