Can I make my subcategory image dependent on language?

Does anyone know how to make the subcategory images dependent on the language?

For example, you can see on my site that I have the subcategories set up to show just an image. However, I can't figure out how (or if) I can have multiple images for each category, one for English and one for German. Basically, I'd like to have a different set of subcategory images for the German version of the site.

I'm no PHP wiz, but can usually find my way around, so if someone could point me in the right direction, I'd be eternally grateful!

Have I stumped all the programmers out there? :P

Well, since it's not designed to do that out-of-the-box, you need to get creative.

So, first you find out "where" those images are being built. From browser View Source, you can find that they're in whatever page draws the indexCategories DIV.
So, searching the files for that reveals that it's in a template, which calls the tpl_category_row template. The first thing that template does is call the category_row.php module file in order to prepare the content.

Thus, it's in that module file that you would make your coding changes.

Since you want the images to be language-specific, you can probably do that by adding "de_" as a prefix to all the images applicable to the "de" language.

Thus, inserting the line of code as shown should accomplish giving the site the ability to first check to see whether an image exists with the "de_" prefix or not. If it does, it'll use it. If not, it'll default to using the image filename specified in the category details in the database, without any language prefix.
Be sure to save any changes you make into the appropriate override folder, rather than editing the original module file directly.

    //    $categories->fields['products_name'] = zen_get_products_name($categories->fields['products_id']);

[B]    if (file_exists(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $_SESSION['languages_code'] . '_' . $categories->fields['categories_image'])) $categories->fields['categories_image'] = $_SESSION['languages_code'] . '_' . $categories->fields['categories_image'];
[/B]    
    $list_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('params' => 'class="categoryListBoxContents"' . ' ' . 'style="width:' . $col_width . '%;"',

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Hey Doc, thanks for the response.

I had narrowed it down to the category_row.php file, but wasn't sure what to do from there. It's nice to know I was on the right track!

I inserted the line of code you provided, but it doesn't seem to work. I'm now getting no image for the subcategory in either language. The subcategory text is showing, but I had previously edited that part of the code so that it doesn't appear. The image files are saved in my image directory, under the names 'birthday.jpg' and 'de_birthday.jpg'.

I'm going to look through a php book and see if I can work something else out. If you have any other suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them.

Thanks again for the help! It is much appreciated.

Well, one thing I didn't take into consideration was the fact that you've got your category images stored in an extra subdirectory.
Thus, maybe it's easier to create a "/images/de/categories/" folder, and put your images in there. Then change the '_' in the code I posted earlier to '/' instead.

Then you can have your english images here:
/images/categories/thank_you.jpg
...

and your dutch images here:
/images/de/categories/thank_you.jpg
...

If I could hug you through the computer right now, I would. :hug:

It's working. I can't even begin to tell you how thankful I am!

Glad it's working!

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Thanks again!

Thanks!