Simple Category Tree

[yellow1912]

Kinda weird, check if you are using over-ride file, because if you do you need to edit the over-ride file instead of the default file.

Send me a PM with you ftp info if you want me to look into it.

[yellow1912]

Dohh, lol, if you rename the file header_php_.php Zencart will still load it. (just found out this one)

I renamed it to header_php.php.bak now, working fine.

[wildflower525300]

Thank you for all of your help!

[focus360]

I have the all products in sub-categories installed, and all is working great. However I have just noticed that, the sort order is not functioning. It always displays the products alphabetically until it reaches the deepest sub-cat when it shows the products as they should be (by sort order).

Is this an error in my installation or are you not able to display via sort order when all products in sub-cats are being displayed?

[yellow1912]

You can see it working in the demo now:
http://demo.rubikintegration.com/zen...page/1/sort/2d

[focus360]

I AM VERY SORRY IGNORE THIS POST - It had nothing to do with all sub-cat listings. Sorry I spent hours on this, and there turned out to be nothing wrong with anything! Duh!

[pinkchalkstudio]

yellow1912:

The Simple Categories mod appears to be exactly what I'm looking for. I want all my subcategories to be expanded out to their lowest level all the time in the sidebar regardless of what page the customer is on.

I've downloaded the files you provide on your website via Linkys. I then uploaded them to my server, simple_categories_tree.php to /classes and config.simple_categories_tree.php to /autoloaders.

I'm looking at your sample text file and see the modifications you made to my_categories.php and tpl_my_categories.php. This is where I'm completely lost since I really don't know what I'm doing (I've just been getting things to work by following directions).

Do I need to create files called 'my_categories.php' and 'tpl_my_categories.php' or do I create and modify override versions of 'categories.php' and 'tpl_categories.php'?

I understand that you're calling the functions you wrote in the download files, I just have absolutely no idea what I need to modify so that I call these functions from my code and they put the expanded categories list in my sidebox instead of the collapsed one.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

Kathy

in case you need my development site:
http://www.pinkbypost.com/store/

[yellow1912]

"
Do I need to create files called 'my_categories.php' and 'tpl_my_categories.php' or do I create and modify override versions of 'categories.php' and 'tpl_categories.php'?"

Yup, create new. This is if you want to create a new sidebox where you can display the tree.

Otherwise, you can just place the code (see readme file sample) anywhere you want to display that tree. You can have multiple trees displayed at various places on one page.

[pinkchalkstudio]

OK, I think I'm starting to get this a little better. I'm going to create the two new files 'my_categories.php' and 'tpl_my_categories.php'.

I want to have the expanded category tree replace the categories tree showing now in my left sidebox.

I'm confused about what code I need to call my new function from so that I get the expanded version and suppress the one that's showing now?

Thanks!

Kathy

http://www.pinkbypost.com/store/

[yellow1912]

Once you created those files, you can go to admin->tools->layout box controller to disable your current category sidebox and enable the new one.