CSS Dropdown menu for the header- With Categories!

[Woodymon]

Hmm, what version of zen cart are you using?

v.1.37. The shop is running on PHP 5.16

I don't see anything wrong with your code.

Me neither. I'm going blind looking at it. The menu works fine except when I insert:

<?php require(DIR_WS_MODULES . 'sideboxes/' . $template_dir . '/' . 'ezpages_drop_menu.php'); ?>

Menu stops rendering at the point the above code is inserted. When I remove the code the menu works fine. Go figure.

Woody

[jettrue]

v.1.37. The shop is running on PHP 5.16


Me neither. I'm going blind looking at it. The menu works fine except when I insert:

<?php require(DIR_WS_MODULES . 'sideboxes/' . $template_dir . '/' . 'ezpages_drop_menu.php'); ?>

Menu stops rendering at the point the above code is inserted. When I remove the code the menu works fine. Go figure.

Woody

Is there an error in your log files? is the ezpages_drop_menu.php loaded in your includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE folder?

Attached is the full ezpages_drop_menu.php file (in text form), just in case something else is off.

[Woodymon]

For those who are adding the ezpages functionality to this mod, I made errors in the file locations. They should be:

includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/ezpages_drop_menu.php
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_ezpages_drop_menu.php

NOT!

The last path above should be:
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_ezpages_drop_menu.php

I wish I could edit old posts!

Me too! I got it wrong myself on post #62.
The blind may have led you into the desert. Sorry.
Thanks for the assistance.
Woody

[Woodymon]

OK now that I've resolved displaying ez-pages in the dropdown menu, I've another related question. And forgive me if already answered or responded to.

A. Before installing the header drop down menu ez-pages "extension" I had a "shop news" ez-pages sidebox displaying in left column. And I want to keep that.

B. And I also had ez-pages displaying in the normal header.

C. Then I added the ability to automatically show ez-pages in the new header dropdown menu.

D. And then followed instructions:

If you want to have the regular zen cart horizontal header bar off, go to "Configuration", "EZPages Settings", and turn the header bar display status to off (0).

E. However now I observe that in order for an ez-page to auto display in the dropdown menu I have to be enable the ez-page to display in BOTH the ez-pages sidebox and ez-pages header. This seems strange.

If I just set the ez-page to display in the header and not the sidebox the ez-page does not display in the dropdown. But I do not want ez-pages that I wish to display in the drop down menu to also display in the left column sidebox (unless I make that choice).

I want ONLY the ez-pages I have marked ONLY to display in the header to display in the dropdown menu only.

I understand I can manually add in ez-pages links to the drop down menu but that's not my point.

I hope my long winded logic is clear here.

Woody

[Woodymon]

Tried out different ez-pages settings and I found a solution/workaround to my dilemma.

The instructions stated:

The sort orders also have to be greater than "0".

So naturally I took this as an instruction to enable the ez-page with a HEADER sort order value >0. Which makes perfect sense.

But what I discovered, and which was not clear to me, is you must ALSO set a SIDEBOX sort order value >0 even if you don't choose to display the ez-page in the sidebox (have it disabled for the sidebox)!

This then allows the ez-page to display in the header dropdown (and not display in the sidebox).

Thanks again for this excellent mod

Woody

[jettrue]

But what I discovered, and which was not clear to me, is you must ALSO set a SIDEBOX sort order value >0 even if you don't choose to display the ez-page in the sidebox (have it disabled for the sidebox)!
Woody

Wait, now I'm confused. When I use this, I only have to have it enabled for the header to auto-show up in the header, as per my instructions. I have ezpages in my header and NONE of them are set to on for the sidebox. In the Layout Boxes Controller, do you have the left/right status for ezpages_drop_menu.php OFF and ONLY the single column status ON?

ETA: AHA! I just checked, and I did have sort orders for the sideboxes, even though I had them OFF. Will have to check some of my php and see if I can fix that.

[CES]

Hi

I'm using your 'simple zen' template on 1.3.6 at the moment and saw this contribution and thought it looks great. I've tested it but all my top level categories show in the menu bar, not just a heading called categories.

Am I doing something daft, or is there an admin setting?

I attach an image to show you.

Thanks

Craig

[jettrue]

Hi

I'm using your 'simple zen' template on 1.3.6 at the moment and saw this contribution and thought it looks great. I've tested it but all my top level categories show in the menu bar, not just a heading called categories.

Am I doing something daft, or is there an admin setting?

I attach an image to show you.

Thanks

Craig

You have to be sure to paste the
<?php require(DIR_WS_MODULES . 'sideboxes/' . $template_dir . '/' . 'ezpages_drop_menu.php'); ?>

In the right spot. My guess is you pasted it outside of the information menu. Its got to go before the closing </ul> of the information menu.

[CES]

Not sure if we are at cross purposes here, I don't have a problem with ezpages, just the categories menu.

When I hover over the categories menu, nothing shows as all the categories are listed in the bar.

Thanks for your help.

[jettrue]

Not sure if we are at cross purposes here, I don't have a problem with ezpages, just the categories menu.

When I hover over the categories menu, nothing shows as all the categories are listed in the bar.

Thanks for your help.

I'd really need to see a link.