how to keep categories unfolded on sidebox?

[kburner]

Thank you. I finally got it to work. But, I noticed that there is vertical line and underscore in front of the sub-category.

How do I get rid of it?

And I would only like the top category to unfold when clicked on...Is that possible?

Thanks again...Kim

www.burnerbooks.com/index.php

[ve39]

could any one host the category_tree.php
i'm messing up when trying ti edit it

and i guessing we have to upload it to /includes/modules/sideboxes

[kburner]

I still have not figured out how to get rid of the vertical line_ before my subcategories. Does anyone know how?

You can see it on my site: www.burnerbooks.com/index.php in the Shop by Categories sidebox. I am still modifying my stylesheets - the light blue is too pale. I will be changing that tonight.

Thanks,
Kim

[DrByte]

That's almost a different topic.
But you'll find the setting here: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=163

[kburner]

Thank you!
Kim

[yaseent]

This is how I hacked up the zen-cart code to have the ability to unfold ANY or ALL categories to display sub-cats on all pages, not just the index page:

open 'includes/classes/category_tree.php'

1) change line 137

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change

if (zen_not_null($cPath)) {

TO =>

if (zen_not_null($cPath) or 1) {


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2) insert code in lines 141-145

ORIGINAL
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reset($cPath_array);



while (list($key, $value) = each($cPath_array)) {

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insert =>

$cPath_array = array(#,#);

in between the reset and while commands.

# equals the category ID you wish to be unfolded... you can have it only unfold one, or all... all would be #,#,#,#,# and so on until you have all the ID's inside the parenthesis.

END RESULT
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reset($cPath_array);

$cPath_array = array(1,2,5,7);

while (list($key, $value) = each($cPath_array)) {

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hope this helps some people, my buddy and I spent 2 hours trying to figure this one out. tried to add some hyphens in here for reading pleasure and such... do not insert the page breaks I made. ENJOY!!!

Any questions let me know, this is what worked for me.

Thanks man this works great except for one problem. I used it to expand the first category on my page, and at the moment my page has 2 categories each with sub-categories. So Cat1 stays permanantly expanded on the entire website, but when a person clicks on Cat2, it loads the page, but in the categories sidebox, Cat 2 does not expand. Is there any way to sort this out?

[eliza-bee]

i have installed the expanded category list, and can't see my products listed yet, not sure if this is the hack for me, as i don't have subcategories, and help appreciated.... i can't find a direct support thread for the expanded category list....

[anap]

Thank you, I struggled for 2 hours trying to figure out Simple Category Tree, gave up and installed this in 5 minutes as described, except the different line numbers for v1.3.8.

I had to change some of my a hover CSS as that didn't carry over well.

[anap]

Help! I can not set a style for the selected product after this hack.

Previously, I just added this line to the CSS to get the currently selected product highlighted with a background color on the categories sidebar:

#categoriesContent a.category-products SPAN.category-subs-selected {background-color: #669900;}

After the change, the site no longer uses the SPAN class, so there is no way for it to know which product is selected. What do I need to add to get that SPAN back in there? (v1.3.8)

[anap]

Anyone else having problems with breadcrumbs after installing? All top level categories with a sort number higher than the current category are being displayed.

i.e. instead of:
Home > Sweaters > Women's Sweaters

I am now getting:
Home > Belts > Tshirts -> Shorts > Sweaters > Women's Sweaters