Categories Dressing

[jmsnyder23]

I don't know what "writing a test" means. Thanks anyway!

[gjh42]

This would be a PHP statement like

if ($box_categories_array[$i]['count'] >= '1') {
  //show the category
} else {
  //hide the category
} 

wrapped around the appropriate lines in categories_dressing_functions.php.

[jmsnyder23]

Would this mod screw up my category pages themselves? I ask because suddenly my products are appearing multiple times on each category page.

[autoace]

autoace - You may want a negative text-indent, or perhaps in admin you should set Configuration > Layout Settings > Categories separator between subcategories to blank (remove hard-coded indent spaces).

pb4 - To get the first three categories in the "Design" group, change the define from 'CAT_BOX_HEADING_107' to 'CAT_BOX_HEADING_103'.
Looks like you have the Web Design ok now.

thanks very much, worked great!

[autoace]

Glenn,

Can Categories Dressing only manipulate the design and display of the categories sidebox on the homepage or can it also be done for the category navigation/listing pages and the product listing page?

[rrzc]

I installed this mod a while ago and I don't have the text instructions anymore.
How do you add dividers/separators between the categories?

[Berserker]

Hello,

How do I add borders around each box of categories?
I have 3 boxes of categories (top manufactures, top phone brands, other departments) but have only 1 define in "categories dressing" php file. This is because they are all links (no actual categories were made in admin).
When I add borders in the stylesheet, I get around borders around all of them instead of per box so it looks like I have borders around the whole left column.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[gjh42]

jmsnyder23 - This mod can only affect the categories sidebox; it has nothing to do with what happens in the center of the page.

autoace - Categories Dressing will affect the categories sidebox on every page unless you add special rules to limit it.

rrzc - In /includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/your_template/categories_dressing_defines.php, make a define for each category id where you want to have a divider above it, like this:

define ('CAT_BOX_HEADING_52','0|1||');//divider only - style 1

Or if you want dividers between all of them, you can edit a stylesheet rule, like

#categories li+li.cat-top a {border-top: 1px solid #aabbcc;}

[gjh42]

Berserker - What you are describing is rather strange, and I would have to see it to advise on making it work the way you want. Why and how do you have no actual categories, if you want to categorize your products?

[Berserker]

gjh42,

sent you a pm.
hope that's ok, the site is hardly finish so dont want the domain advertised here yet...

thanks