Subcategories not showing in category page center

I know this has been posted about a zillion times, but I have researched this problem. Done EVERYTHING previous threads have advised and still nothing!

When I click on a category in the sidebox and it opens to the category page, my subcategories do not show in the top center of the page. I have switched to the default template and the subcategories DO show BUT they show twice instead of just once.

Product Listing>
Show SubCategories on Main Page while navigating = 1

Layout Settings>
Categories - Always Open to Show SubCategories = 1

I do not have products placed in categories along with sub categories. The tpl_index_categories.php is the default file with no changes made. Zen version is 1.3.8a

I have no idea what I'm missing. I've been trying to figure this out for weeks!

Thanks in advance for your help!

My site : http://www.creative-talk.com/store

Go to the Tools ... Developers Tool Kit ...

In the bottom input box enter:
category_row.php

and select Catalog and click SEARCH ...

See if the require has been commented out or is missing from your template ...

If you do not find it, try switching to the Classic Template ... does it work? If so, then your template is either missing the code or the code is commented out ...

its not work for the classi template ither..what shall i do??:(

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Seems like everyone is asking the same question and the answers dry up before a solution is identified.

This is a basic requirement - top of the page Category link, the category contains subcategories with products in (in my case the products are all linked copies of products whose main categories are different).

When a visitor clicks on the category no sub category appears - in my case products added to those sub categories fill the screen as "new products added for January".

BUT NO SUBCATEGORIES - Everything is turned on in Admin as far as I have ascertained. I have tried all other available suggestions on this forum - SQL patch failed because the thing already exists, tried messing with the define categories code - no effect.

Please assist.

You may want to try this out
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=479

Thanks - willing to try anything once - but still concerned that I am unable to get core functionality to work as published. If this is a GUI for functions that don't work then it will not have solved anything. But if it is a work around that works - well that is great and it looks good too. :)

Genuinely tiresome to be stuck trying to fix something that is in no way supposed to be broken in the first place HEEEELLLLLPPPPPPP

I could be mistaken but I cant recall a single zen cart that had a horizontal drop down menu built into the core.

I believe that is only for the sidebox categories

Edit: It should just place the sub categories on each page in the top center, but not a drop down.

Is that the issue you are having is the subcategories are not showing in a box like manner on the page like the first pic?

The second is an add on

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Anyone - my issue here is that the subcategories don't appear at all. I am not sure that adding a fancy GUI is going to start them working - more likely to add 4 hours work only to have a prettier screw up on screen.

Again this is basic Zen Cart stuff - if category functions don't work (or simply that I am not working them correctly) then this is failure at the core level. And it seems I am not the only one having this problem whether it exists in the software or out of user stupidity.

In any case is anyone please clued up how this is supposed to work or how to trouble shoot it when it does not.

Please

No the gui wont do anything for you in that case.

When I have come across issues such as this its generally been due to my placing the same named file in the wrong folder. Is this a new install?

it is no longer a clean install, but it is also not an upgrade from a previous version of ZC. As far as I am aware I have touched nothing that can affect the functioning of categories. (As far as I am aware being a key issue)

The affected category is in a ZC install in a subdirectory of public_html

Everything else works.

Today I added a new Category.

It sits at Top > Category3

Then I added a sub category and put in linked products.

Top > Category3 > subcategory> linked products

These products originate in Top > Category1 > products
2

Admin shows Subcategory 1 looking completely sensible as far as I can see. It just does not appear on the web site when Category 3 is clicked on.

:(

oh and one more thing - suspecting that linked products may not activate the display of the subcategory - I added a unique test product to Subcategory 1 and it made no difference

Is anyone willing to shed some light on this please?

I'm not at a computer but throwing a dart would be a PHP file. Which on I couldn't tell you but if this urgent I would ask this in a more popular forum here pertaining to bugs. This one doesn't get many hits. The only reason I responded is I've had similar situations and it was due to putting a common named file in the wrong folder.

richphitzwell - I am grateful for your caring. I am trusting in decisive response from someone who wrote this system or in ant case knows this part of the code inside and out. At last count I think I saw about 7000 .php files - and my suspicion is this is a simple setting somewhere that is telling this subcategory not to appear.

Go to the Tools ... Developers Tool Kit ...

In the bottom input box enter:
category_row

select Catalog and click Search ...

are any of the require statements commented out?

/home/myaccount/public_html/subfolder/includes/modules/category_row.php

Line #2 : * index category_row.php

Line #11 : * @version $Id: category_row.php 4084 2006-08-06 23:59:36Z drbyte $

/home/myaccount/public_html/subfolder/includes/templates/premium8a/templates/tpl_index_categories.php

Line #6 : * Uses tpl_index_category_row.php to render individual items

Line #70 : if (PRODUCT_LIST_CATEGORY_ROW_STATUS == 0) {

Line #77 : require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_category_row.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_category_row.php');

/home/myaccount/public_html/subfolder/includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_index_categories.php

Line #6 : * Uses tpl_index_category_row.php to render individual items

Line #65 : if (PRODUCT_LIST_CATEGORY_ROW_STATUS == 0) {

Line #72 : require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_category_row.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_category_row.php');

/home/myaccount/public_html/subfolder/includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_modules_category_row.php

Line #2 : * index category_row.php

Line #11 : * @version $Id: tpl_modules_category_row.php 2986 2006-02-07 22:27:29Z drbyte $

Line #13 : require(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory('category_row.php'));

can you see if this is this the correct search call? Do the results mean anything?