Better Categories Contrib & ezpages

Thanks SpottedHaggis:smile: I couldn't find it in css, but I looked into the php coding and for both sets of graphics (assigned to category and information sideboxes) the code was already written to address the "factory install" without spaces between the .gif and the first letter of text.

So here is what the considerate and "future-thinking" creator of this contribution wrote into the code (before line 20 in all five of the below listed docs):

$pointer = zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE_IMAGES . 'bc_info.gif');
// uncomment next line to add 1 space between image & text
// $pointer .= ' ';

So I did that in the following:

includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/information.php
includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/more_information.php

and

includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_categories.php
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_document_categories.php
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_ezpages.php

All is well now and I'm a bit more educated :smartass:

Glad you found the answer...

Sometimes it helps to rtfm. :D

From the "Notes:" section in the the readme.txt.

• Your image is too close to the text link!
  Each sidebox file, (except the bestseller sidebox), has a line at the top of the file which allows you to add 1 (or more) spaces between them. Uncomment this line to insert a space, duplicate it to add more than one.

Has anyone managed , or is it even possible to have alt style tags on the categories.

managed to tweak the code to put it in manually ( the same for each line ) but thought maybe first 30 chars of the description could go in here , just to give people more of a clue whats in the category !

Also can someone kick me in the right direction , I want to add an image for the subcategory like the green arrow one. instead of using the lines from zen admin.

Thanks all

Crazy.....

crazycucumber:

Also can someone kick me in the right direction , I want to add an image for the subcategory like the green arrow one. instead of using the lines from zen admin.

Thanks all

Crazy.....
The images for this contrib are in
includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE\images
copy the image you want to use over the existing image used in this place

Thanks for all the great input, I figured out some of the things I needed to do on my menus....

My site (for a customer) is here: http://216.14.216.28/

You can see the margin around the top sidebox is too wide. For the life of me (forest and trees syndrome, I'm sure), I can't find the bit of code that controls this. Any ideas?

Also, I couldn't quite figure it out from what I've seen so far, but if I want to display my sub-ezpages (I have multiple articles under 'Articles') like a sub-category, can that be done? Any links to how or whatever would be appreciated. I've been searching for ages and haven't turned it up yet.

I'm loving the Better Categories mod, its saved me a lot of time getting my EZpages menu to look more like the categories menu. Now if I can just get the layout finished, and the sub-cat EZpages to work, life would be a dream.....

Vicky Rowe

BetterCategoriesEzInfo updated to zen v1.3.5 available here

Hi , My site is in the final 5 days before going live , and just a few niggles to sort out , can anyone tell me how to get the selected category background colour to be the same as the hover background colour when selected , cant seem to get ti to work by tweaking the CSS .

The demo site is at https://www.tapes-direct-zen.madaboutthe.co.uk

Probably easy , but my head is spinning from all the little changes I have to do !

Cheers

have to say I think it looks ok with that hover colour.

I have noticed that your We Accept area seems to overlap the main content area.

Me too , but the client wants to have the background colour to highlight the active cat.

Think the overlap is sorted now , if its not , can you let me know what browser you see it with .

From what I can see this is where the orange colour is coming from in the beter categories css file

.betterCategories a:hover...	stylesheet_better... (line 28)

Hope that helps, im still learing css

oh and in Firefox everything looks god, but in IE 7 your information box top is cut in half, the right part is missing, not sure about ie6 though

You have removed the call to the image in your "information" box. The result is that in ie6 the rollovers only work on the text links and not on the entire cell.

You are better to leave the image call in the file and copy the 1x1 transparent pixel gif over the existing display gif. This removes the image but allows ie6 to work on the entire cell, (damn ie6).

Yeah strange one that , I installed Better Cats , and didn't have the images as standard , maybe I installed an old version or something, will extract the contrib and upload manually.

Any idea on how to change the CSS to get the Cell background to remain highlighted when selected ?

Just moving servers to the live server this week , but the test site still at https://www.tapes-direct-zen.madaboutthe.co.uk

Cheers

I did search this thread and either kept using the wrong phrasing, or am brain cramping....

How do I remove all the images from this mod?

betty

bettysue:

I did search this thread and either kept using the wrong phrasing, or am brain cramping....

How do I remove all the images from this mod?

betty

From the read_me in the mod

• Don't want an image!
  Copy the 1x1_transparent.gif to the relevant image file. Don't remove the image from the php files as it fixes a problem with IE6 and allows the rollovers to work on the entire cell, not just the text link. The bestseller sidebox default image is the 1x1 transparent pixel.

Go to the image directory in the mod
Copy the 1x1_transparent.gif to all the other images that you want to remove.
It doesn't remove the image, just makes it so small you can't normally see it.

the readme? go figure!! :blush:

thank you for the reply and apologies for the oversight!

betty

Just checked

BetterCategoriesEzInfo v1.3.5 works fine with Zen Cart v1.3.6 and does not need to be updated.

Is it posible to create better categories effect for the ezpages bar? (the one located on the header?

Hi,

I was hoping someone could help me?

If you look at this page on my site (https://www.handcrafteduk.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3) you will see that the link on the left 'african and tribal' has a stange line to the left side of it. This happens with all the links in other categories also.

How do I go about removing this? I've installed both the original and new version of the mod and still it didn't change!

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Gary :smile:

Nothing whatsoever to do with the mod... admin>configuration>layout settings ... Categories Separator between the Category Name and Sub Categories

first, please forgive me if i post my question in wrong place.

I am using betterCategoriesEzinfo on zencart 1.3.6

Please look at the picture below, I want to fix the text alignment in box1 to
like the text in box2.

Please help!