Categories Dressing

[gjh42]

How do you want to change the sidebox size? Height? Width?

If you want only top categories showing, that is best done with the admin setting in Configuration > Layout Settings > Categories - Always Open to Show SubCategories > set to 0.

[gjh42]

webdca - I am not seeing any characters/marks on hover, in Firefox or IE9 regular or compatibility view.

[CruiserCommando2011]

How do you want to change the sidebox size? Height? Width?

If you want only top categories showing, that is best done with the admin setting in Configuration > Layout Settings > Categories - Always Open to Show SubCategories > set to 0.

Thanks for the info. I'd like to change the sidebox width if possible.

[gjh42]

That's not actually related to Categories Dressing, but a general styling ability; you can address the categories sidebox as a whole with

#categories {width: 123px !important;}

[autoace]

@gjh42

I have categories dressing v2_8 installed. I have all my top cats and sub cats1 showing on the home page. A couple of my top cats have more than 10 sub cats1, is there a way to change it to where a max of 10 sub cats1 are displayed on the home page?

[gjh42]

That would be new custom coding. I'm not sure offhand where you would get the info, but you would need to add something that keeps a count of subcats of the current top cat and suppress display of ones beyond 10... If there could be sub-subcats processed in there too, it could get really messy. Probably the best way would be to alter the base category-tree class, which I have not done and can't advise on.

[CaptainCarlton]

Hi guys,

I am using the Uncollapsed Categories Tree. All is working fine. What I would like to do is 'unlink' the top level category, which I don't really need. Currently, if I click on the top level category a page load and lists each subcategory in thumbnail format. It's a bit redundant, as the sub cats are always showing anyway.

Any ideas ? Note that this mod includes a new tpl_categories file

adam

[gjh42]

You would need to apply the code described by jackie.taferner in the other thread to v2.7.3's tpl_categories.php, line 51:

      $content .= '  <li class="cat-' . $new_style . '"><a class="cat-' . $active_class . $cat_name_display[0] . '" href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $box_categories_array[$i]['path']) . '">'; 

and line 62:

      $content .= '</a>'; 

Change to

      if ($box_categories_array[$i]['top'] == 'true') {
        $content .= '  <li class="cat-' . $new_style . '"><span class="cat-' . $active_class . $cat_name_display[0] . '">';
      } else {
        $content .= '  <li class="cat-' . $new_style . '"><a class="cat-' . $active_class . $cat_name_display[0] . '" href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $box_categories_array[$i]['path']) . '">';
      } 

and

      if ($box_categories_array[$i]['top'] == 'true') {
        $content .= '</span>';
      } else {
        $content .= '</a>';
      } 

You would also need to do some styling to make these spans look as you want, since some of the <a> styling will no longer apply.

[ray-the-otter]

Hi, I have been trying to develop a navigation system for a development site. But I am having limited success.

I have four parent categories which I have displayed across the top of the web page, I am using the Categories Dressing mod set to only show subcategories in the Category Sidebox. This is great and exactly how I want my navigation to be. (See attached)

But I get an empty Category Sidebox on all pages where Subcategories are not displayed (see attached). Can someone please help me and show me where I am going wrong.

How can I have the Category Sidebox turned off or not displayed on pages where Subcategories are not shown? For example, the home, log-in, cart, account, log-off page. EZ-Pages, Define Pages etc.

Failing this I will have to redesign my navigation or styling.

I cannot workout how to do it. It is on my local WAMP set up so sadly no live link available.

Thanks

[gjh42]

This is not a Categories Dressing issue; you can fix it by editing /includes/modules/sideboxes/your_template/categories.php (not a Cat Dressing file).

 * @version $Id: categories.php 2718 2005-12-28 06:42:39Z drbyte $
 */
//add this line to turn sidebox off for non-category/product pages
if ($cPath) {

    $main_category_tree = new category_tree;
    $row = 0;
    $box_categories_array = array();

// don't build a tree when no categories
    $check_categories = $db->Execute("select categories_id from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " where categories_status=1 limit 1");
    if ($check_categories->RecordCount() > 0) {
      $box_categories_array = $main_category_tree->zen_category_tree();
    }

    require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_categories.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'sideboxes'). '/tpl_categories.php');

    $title = BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES;
    $title_link = false;

    require($template->get_template_dir($column_box_default, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common') . '/' . $column_box_default);
//add this line to turn sidebox off for non-category/product pages
}
?> 

There might possibly be a product page that doesn't involve a cPath for some kinds of display, so if you don't get the categories sidebox in a place you want it, post back and I'll take a look at adding the right extra condition.