While Displaying Cats on Main Page<- Need Code Help

[bumba000]

Hi all,
Thanks for reading. I've been at this a little while now but cant find what I'm looking for. I turned on the switch for display cats on main page but I would also like to have each cats subs show as well. I know this will be a code thing and am prepared. I just need a push in the right direction.

I would like for this to work similar to Nav Cat Tabs do when one is clicked on and is now a center box showing sub cats with main cat as H1 with description under that and subs under that.

I'm working on my wamp with DW8 so I'm going back to but will check here often for assistance.

Thanks in advance,
John

[bumba000]

Okay, I have a better idea. I'll write my own categories menu for include on main page.

I'm in phpmyadmin looking at categories and categories_description. I don't see how the connection between cats and sub cats are made.

How do I relate subcats with their parent from zc db in php?

Thanks,
John

[kobra]

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[bumba000]

thanks Kobra but these are all sideboxes. I am trying to get a menu as a centerbox. I have been over the sidebox tpl_categories.php to see if I could use that as a starting point for my center box but it doesn't look promising either.

I've only been at this for a year. I feel like I'm getting closer.

Thanks

[bumba000]

Half way down this page in a div class categories is what Im trying to do minus the images(for now).

[kobra]

Grab code from a sidebox that gives you what you want and transplant it to a custom tpl_main_page.php for the page where you want this display or a custom general if for all pages

[bumba000]

I've been doing that for most of the day. I've been trying to get the code from templates/tpl_categories.php to work. I don't have a good enough idea of what is going on in this code to do it.