Categories Dressing

[gjh42]

And you see /includes/templates/12volt/sideboxes/tpl_categories.php and /includes/templates/12volt/css/stylesheet_categories_dressing.css in your test store?

[bumba000]

Glenn,
I really want to say thank you for your time and help on this.
I figured out what the problem is.

My test store is semi broken. It seems as though anything I click on takes me to the original live store.

I installed this mod on the live store for just a few moments to verify that it works. It Does!

Thanks again,
John

[bumba000]

I do have another question for you Glenn.

What is your best advice for using this mod with lots and lots of categories?

If the images are only 25px the site will go on for miles and that's only cat tops.

Thanks
John

[gjh42]

The standard advice for information display is to have no more than 5 to 7 or so items in any one group, so they are easily comprehensible. With such a large total number of categories, instant legibility is critical.

Rather than making each category name an image, you might do best to use the heading function to break the list down into related groups of categories, or otherwise provide "anchor points" at intervals in the list so the customer's eyes don't slide around so much but are able to focus on chunks of navigation information. The divider function may also be useful.

The range of products in your site is such that it may be a challenge to make rational groupings, but that's where I would start working.

[7inter]

Hi, I've installed categories dressing mod and for me it's great! But when I use a wide screen in the categories I can see a lines in different colour in cream in the end of each category button and subcategory as well.
Have any idea on how to solve this?
Thank you for reading my terrible english!

[gjh42]

Can you give a link to see the problem?

[Tinman0650]

I have looked and overlooked but can't find how to remove (hide) the category test from the sidebox when no image is available. I put the categories in question in a center table as images with links to make the main page look more uniform. I want to be able to hide the text from the right sidebox.

Well-Grounded Kids

Thanks in advance for your advice.

tin

[Tinman0650]

how to remove (hide) the category test from the sidebox when no image is available.
tin

Sorry, the word test should have been TEXT.

Thanks,
tin

[gjh42]

Find this near the top of your tpl_categories.php:

    $current_path = str_replace("cPath=","",$box_categories_array[$i]['path']);
    if (zen_get_product_types_to_category($box_categories_array[$i]['path']) == 3 or ($box_categories_array[$i]['top'] != 'true' and SHOW_CATEGORIES_SUBCATEGORIES_ALWAYS != 1)) {
      // skip if this is for the document box (==3) 
    } else { 

and add

$current_path == 15 or $current_path == 16 or

to get:

    $current_path = str_replace("cPath=","",$box_categories_array[$i]['path']);
    if ($current_path == 15 or $current_path == 16 or zen_get_product_types_to_category($box_categories_array[$i]['path']) == 3 or ($box_categories_array[$i]['top'] != 'true' and SHOW_CATEGORIES_SUBCATEGORIES_ALWAYS != 1)) {
      // skip if this is for the document box (==3) 
    } else { 

This will skip those categories in the sidebox output.

You may need to add a bit of code to hide subcategories of those top cats. If this is the case, one thing that may work correctly is to use (int)$current_path in place of $current_path.
If that does not do the right job, there is another method thai I know will work.

[Tinman0650]

Glenn you are a giant and a genius. It worked perfectly! I have been racking my tiny brain for a couple days over this. Your categories dressing contrib is the best.

Thank you,

tin