Simple Category Tree

[gjh42]

Thanks, I'll take a look at the setup of that array and try massaging its contents.

[yellow1912]

Something like this: (all the categories will be listed in category_tree array, each category will have the elements as shown)

category_tree (array)

• 22 (array)
  • name (string) => test
  • parent_id (string) => 0
  • path (array)
    • 0 (string) => 22
  • sub_cats (array)
    • 0 (string) => 23
    • 1 (string) => 24
  • sub (string) => has_sub
  • cPath (string) => 22
  • deepest_cats (array)
    • 0 (string) => 23
    • 1 (string) => 26
    • 2 (string) => 27
• 0 (array)
  • sub_cats (array)
    • 0 (string) => 22
    • 1 (string) => 8
    • 2 (string) => 6
    • 3 (string) => 21
    • 4 (string) => 11
    • 5 (string) => 9
    • 6 (string) => 10
    • 7 (string) => 16
    • 8 (string) => 17
    • 9 (string) => 18
    • 10 (string) => 15

[gjh42]

Thanks for the listing, that will make it quicker to start working with it.

[HeathenMagic]

Hello there,

This may be a stupid question, so bear with me if it is. I have CSS dropdown category dropdown installed, is it possible to integrate this method with the simple category tree? I was interested in the part on reducing load time on the server, as I have loads of categories.

Thanks in advance,

Heathenmagic

[yellow1912]

I believe that mod already does a pretty good job reducing the load. You may want to check that module's code and see how it queries the database.

[fightthefourwalls]

Hmm... I've been trying with the retrieve_deepest_cats_array($categories_id) function but still no luck. Anyone made any progress?

[focus360]

No luck here

[yellow1912]

I'll upload a package here around, lets say, within 1 or 1 and a half week. If you cant wait, feel free to work on it though.

Regards.

[fightthefourwalls]

Thanks heaps! I'll be working on it but chances are I won't crack it... Will be looking forward to the upload as it is the final touch on my Zen Cart store!

I'll upload a package here around, lets say, within 1 or 1 and a half week. If you cant wait, feel free to work on it though.

Regards.

[fightthefourwalls]

Ok this is crazy... I completely screwed up my shop the other night by deleting a few files I hadn't backed up then uploaded what I had but that crashed my shop, so I started over (thankfully I am still building the shop so it is not live). However, I have been mucking around with a few files n making slight changes, and somehow I have managed to succeed with what we have all been stuggling to accomplish!

I HAVE PRODUCTS FROM SUBCATEGORIES SHOWING UP IN MY PARENT CATEGORIES!!!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!

Anyway, when I get to the bottom of the subcategories (eg the category that holds the products), there is a double up so I just need to find the function that shows the products and see if I can delete just one of them.

Any tips are helpful but I will post back here once I compare my file backups and see what exactly I did that made this fortunate accident!!! I have pretty much no clue with Zen language or any other coding (apart from HTML and grasping css now) so I have no idea how this managed to work!

Will post as soon as I know what it is!