Categories Image on Manufacturer page

Hi everyone,

I am sort of new to this, so bare with me.
I am trying to have a subcategory image show up on a manufacturer's page after a category was selected from a drop-down filter. Is this possible through the admin console or I change the code? If so, which files should i be looking at?
I have done some searching around but could not find a solid answer.

I am on 1.3.9h

Thank you in advance.

Are you saying you selected a manufacturer in the manufacturer's dropdown list, and that you then wanted sub-categories appearing on that page, because I don't think there's a manufacturers page in the native version of zenCart without some custom coding.

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Yes, sorry, let me clarify this a bit... when you select one of the manufacturers from the drop down inside of the sidebox, it shows you all the products for that manufacturer. I called it "manufacturer page"...Once there, i know there is an alpha sorter filter (which i have disabled) and categories filter. Once one of the categories is selected in this filter (which i believe is a subcategory that contains products from that manufacturer) it filters the list even further. So my question is, is there a way to stick the selected category image above the list of products?

It should be possible with a few lines of PHP in the right file. I'll take a look.

I think you will need to custom code it. I'm sure DrByte knows for sure, but custom coding is my guess.

And no credit for: > Kim, Ajeh, Afo

Are you implying I'm queer?

My comment above had no intentions of mentioning that and was only giving praise to the Whole Zen Team just not "one"..

Well, he uses a mac so he probably belongs to a higher life-form.

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It should be possible with a few lines of PHP in the right file. I'll take a look.

I would greatly appreciate it...:clap:

Not sure what this whole queer talk is all about...i guess i am too new for this forum :shocking:

The file to edit (or affect) would be /includes/templates/your_template/templates/tpl_index_product_list.php; however, the filter works by javascript without refreshing the page, so PHP is not going to be able to alter the display on the fly. You could probably write a js function to show or change the category image (already in the page code) when the filter changes. You would need somebody who is good with javascript to do that.

Just to make sure i understand this correctly...when the manufacturer is first selected it makes an SQL query to a db and pulls all the records that belong to that manufacturer. Once the list of products is build and all of them are displayed, the category filter "runs" on a client side by selecting only a subset of products and at this point does not go back to the server/db?

I believe so. I haven't examined all of the code there. In any case, it would take a client-side bit of code to alter the category image on filter selection, whether it goes back to the db or not. It might be necessary to pre-fetch all possible category images; I don't know enough js to be sure.

Ewwwe, gross. I was hoping for a quick fix. Oh well, i guess i'll put it on my list of "no-so-quick" things to do...
I was kind of thinking the same thing as fetching all the images for that manufacturer and them calling them out with js. Thanks for your input.:smile: