drop down menu for categories...

How would I go about having a dropdown menu for my categories if I wanted one similar to this.....

My shopping cart is going super slow & I can hardly stand it, I figure at least this might help for people trying to look at products..... (I can't stand when stores are slow and i'm sitting there a few seconds in between every click...I like instantaneous :smile: )

Create your subcategories, then in Admin, go to Configuration/Layout Settings and you'll find a whole bunch of category options.

... though sadly none of these options would turn the categories sidebox into a drop down menu. To do this you would need to make changes to the modules/sideboxes/categories.php and templates/sideboxes/tpl_categories.php files using the equivalents for manufactuers as your model.

Apologies to all - I didn't get the question - :blush:

I really must start getting more than 5 hours sleep.

... but your point was still valid. There are a lot of things on the page you referenced that can done to influence how the category sidebox works and they are certainly worth exploring.

kuroi:

... though sadly none of these options would turn the categories sidebox into a drop down menu. To do this you would need to make changes to the modules/sideboxes/categories.php and templates/sideboxes/tpl_categories.php files using the equivalents for manufactuers as your model.

well i haven't the slightest clue when it comes to php, but i really would like to get this into a dropdown. I just think it will look better if i just have "shop by category" and "shop by brand" in dropdown menus. I know how to do a css dropdown that would look exactly how i want... but other than that, I am lost.

You can use the Manufacturers Sidebox as a dropdown by configuring it in the Admin and a top level categories box is being worked on at the moment.

Kim:

You can use the Manufacturers Sidebox as a dropdown by configuring it in the Admin and a top level categories box is being worked on at the moment.

yeah i knew about the manufacturers one, the categories one will be sweet. i will be waiting.

Kim - would be great to have a subcategory dropdown for the cat tabs menu too :shocking:

i don't see why i can't just do a simple html drop down like this....(but of course with all the < &>)

select style="background-color: FFFFFF; color: 000000; width: 200; ">
option> option 1</option
option> option 2</option
option> option 3</option

and just manually put in the links, yeah it's a pain, but i have no other option at the moment...

BUT then again i don't know php and how exactly this zencart stuff works.
my knowledge ends at css/html

i don't see why i can't just do a simple html drop down like this....
There are many answers for that but just to give you 1 and very good one is: because then the categories won't be generated dinamic as they are supposed to.

Ok so my friend is making me a categories dropdown menu...Yay:laugh:
I'm assuming everything that's been done is correct for zencart, but maybe someone could check it out....:P

khopek:

Ok so my friend is making me a categories dropdown menu...Yay:laugh:
I'm assuming everything that's been done is correct for zencart, but maybe someone could check it out....:P

Nice work. Can you or your friend post the code or files?

shannda:

Nice work. Can you or your friend post the code or files?

I have the files that he has modified so far...which currently my dropdown menu only shows top level categories until you choose one, then the subcategories will show. Basically, just like the regular sidebox works for zencart, only in a dropdown menu.:laugh:

I think he's trying to get all subcategories to also display all the time because that's what I wanted.:P

khopek:

I have the files that he has modified so far...which currently my dropdown menu only shows top level categories until you choose one, then the subcategories will show. Basically, just like the regular sidebox works for zencart, only in a dropdown menu.:laugh:

I think he's trying to get all subcategories to also display all the time because that's what I wanted.:P

here are the modified files he gave me....
you can take a look at my site if you want to see the dropdown menu.
The modified files are html_header.php and tpl_categories.php