Categories Dressing

[KismetDesign]

I had my client email me today and ask if the menu drop down feature is only available for on-click, or if it was availabe on mouse-over. I have no idea...

Is that a possibility with this menu?

[gjh42]

Categories Dressing does not do any dropdown effect. If you want that you will have to use one of the CSS or javascript menu mods, and start from scratch with the styling. The "onclick" subcat display is just the normal categories sidebox function.

HelenSama -
You will need to give the "As Seen In" category a special classname as described in the tpl_categories.php comments, and give that class a display: none; in the stylesheet.

[gjh42]

Kismet -
I thought you wanted the left margin, since you had it before we started the latest round of tweaks. To remove it, just change the 15px to 0:

#categories ul a {/*top categories*/
    display: block;
    background: transparent url(../images/bullet1.gif) no-repeat scroll 0 0 0 6px;
    border: none;
    margin: 0 0 0 0;
    padding: 0 0 9px 13px;
   }

or just
margin: 0;

[KismetDesign]

I don't know why I said 'drop down' feature. That's not what I meant. I mean, you have to currently click on the main category to display the subcategories.

My client was wondering if you could change the on-click to mouse-over, that is all. I wouldn't want the on-mouseout effect, just the over part. Is that possible?

And, I thought we wanted the margin too, until it was pointed out to me that we had a change of plans.

Thanks for your patience and help. The margins look great now.

KD

[gjh42]

Your client is talking about adding a totally new javascript functionality to the menu; the "on-click" is the basic HTML page link selection.

[KismetDesign]

Well, I think we'll probably just leave it as is... especially if it's not as easy as when I build a site in Dreamweaver and then just simply change the javascript from on-click to on-mouseover. ;-)

[customk1]

**posting again, unfortunately, had to change test site back to 'normal' to proceed with work... but hopefully you may be aware of an issue as is?**

hey glenn, long time no talk to!! hope you are well.

i am trying to set up categories dressing for a friend of mine who is also on zencart. we created a backup zencart in a new folder called catalog1 so that we could test changes without affecting the 'real' site.

main site is www.mojoleather.com
test site is www.mojoleather.com/catalog1

when you bring up /catalog1 the page is not loading entirely. it stops right below the header, and just above where the categories would load. this only happens when i use the categories dressing file tpl_categories.php. i can upload all the categories dressing files and change the tpl_categories.php file back to the main zencart template file and the page will load normally... however when the modified tpl_categories.php file is in place, the page stops loading after the header.

any suggestions on what might be the conflict? i also have loaded the tpl_categories.php file from MY site (www.customk9design.com) which KNOW is working... in case there was an update that had messed it up... however it still doesnt work.

i look forward to your input. thanks!

-ginny

[gjh42]

It wasn't misbehaving when I looked before, shortly after you posted the first time, but I don't think you had the Cat Dressing file in place then either.

I do notice that you have a weird Login link in the header:

  <!--bof-navigation display-->
  <div id="navMainWrapper">
    <div id="navMain">
      <ul class="back">

        <li><a href="http://mojoleather.com/">Home</a></li>
                <li><a href="https://ssl.enameservers.net/~tinmann8//index.php?main_page=login&amp;zenid=######">Log In</a></li>
                      </ul>
    </div>

.../~tinmann8//index.php...

I don't see how that could possibly affect the categories sidebox, but it is not good in any case. You probably have an extra trailing slash in your /includes/configure.php in the SSL path define. I don't know what else to say... maybe we can agree on a time to test the file again.

You might try installing the debug utility - see the tutorials. If you do that, you should get an error message in the log file when the tpl_categories file stops loading.

[fierystorm]

Hey Glenn,

Awesome mod!

I searched through this thread but I either missed what I am looking for or it's not there... I installed the Categories Dressing mod, but I seem to be running into a snag.

What I would like to do is fairly simple. I have an existing template I put together with existing categories. I wanted to replace my categories with button images I created and make those images links to my categories. I uploaded my images as stated in the guide and I believe I did the correct thing by specifying the image file in (i.e.):

define ('CAT_BOX_HEADING_6'

But all it did was add the image above the link as a header instead of making it my category link. Obviously I goofed.

Could you help point me in the right direction? I'm not a coder but I am usually good at figuring things out..but I keep missing what is obviously the obvious

Thanks and I love the mod!!

[gjh42]

Images for category names are automatically picked up by the code if they are named correctly; no define statement is needed. The defines are intended for setting up headings.
From the readme:

"To display images in place of selected category names:

Make your images with names like catimg#.gif (or catbg#.gif and catbg#hover.gif), and save in /includes/templates/your_template/buttons/english/"