subcategories not getting parent category stylesheet

I've read through the css_readme and searched through the forums but I couldn't find an answer for my problem.

I have a site I'm developing and each primary category needs it own colour system. Each subcategory in the primary category also needs to inherit this colour system. However, I can't figure out a way (I haven't tried getting messy with the php yet) to make all the subcategories use the parent category's stylesheet.

for example: c_65 is a parent category, it has c_65_66, c_65_67, and c_65_68 as children. I'm trying to avoid creating a stylesheet for each subcategory, as that creates maintainance issue, and instead have c_65.css apply to the subcategories that c_65 contains.

So is there anyway to do this? I don't mind getting into the php if that needs to be done.

While I have not double checked this for you - I believe that if you designate a style sheet for a category then it will also be utilized for it's children or subs also

so have one for the cat c _65, another for a different cat say c_77, etc

Thanks for replying so fast kobra. But on my install of 1.3.7 when I go into "index.php?main_page=index&cPath=65_69". The stylesheet c_65.css is not loaded. Also if I target a sub category, it doesn't load in the parent. So should I start poking in the css loader php file.

thanks again.

I must have missed something....Have you looked at the readme in the /css directory?

At the present time, it pulls for the current category, not for a parent.

So in the current build there is no standard way to do what I'm attempting to accomplish? If I get any decent results from poking around in the CSS loader files I'll post it here.

Allright, I figured it out, and it was quite easy.

In the your_template/common/html_header.php around line 53 an array is created that stores the values of the stylesheet names that will be loaded, here is where we will add a new value for our root category stylesheet.

First, above the array you have to create a new variable that will store the value of the root category.

$top_category =  substr($cPath, 0, strpos($cPath, '_'));

Then in the array mentioned before ($sheets_array) needs to be modified to look like the following

 $sheets_array = array('/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '_stylesheet', 
                        '/' . $tmp_pagename,  
                        '/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '_' . $tmp_pagename,
                        '/c_' . $top_category, //my top category search.
			'/c_' . $cPath, 					
                        '/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '_c_' . $cPath, 
                        '/m_' . $manufacturers_id, 
                        '/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '_m_' . (int)$manufacturers_id, 
                        '/p_' . $tmp_products_id,
                        '/' . $_SESSION['language'] . '_p_' . $tmp_products_id 
                        );

The modified line is the fourth node in the array. It simply makes a node in the array that reflects the current top level category.

So there you have it, an easy way to load both primary category style sheets and sub-category sheets if you need them.

And this is what is great about OpenSource Projects

It certainly is. I'm really impressed with the quality of zen cart and hope that I can contribute more. If I come up with anything else I think others can use, I'll be sure to post it here (not this thread, but in the forums :) )

I've tried out your modification and it works really well - no more multiple c_??_?? stylesheets.

Congrats.