Categories Dressing

The arrow is part of the standard Zen Cart sidebox, and can be redefined to blank in
Configuration > Layout Settings >
Categories Separator between the Category Name and Count

The readme.html describes how to turn off each feature if you don't need it. You appear to have found the way to turn off the link heading (comment out or delete its define statement in categories_dressing_defines.php).

In stylesheet_categories_dressing.css AND stylesheet.css, do I need to change ALL #categories to #chcategories for the styling to take affect? Little confused there.

I do have ch_categories installed (not the one included with Categories Dressing - I installed ch_categories first).

If you are using ch_categories, you need to use the alternate stylesheet_chcategories_dressing.css included with Categories Dressing. Most of the category rules in the standard stylesheet are not applicable to a site using either form of Categories Dressing, so it doesn't matter what you do with them.
It doesn't matter which copy of ch_categories you use, as both are the same.

Thanks so much - I knew the arrow was something simple but for the life of me could not find it.
Thanks again

gjh42:

The arrow is part of the standard Zen Cart sidebox, and can be redefined to blank in
Configuration > Layout Settings >
Categories Separator between the Category Name and Count

The readme.html describes how to turn off each feature if you don't need it. You appear to have found the way to turn off the link heading (comment out or delete its define statement in categories_dressing_defines.php).

gjh42:

If you are using ch_categories, you need to use the alternate stylesheet_chcategories_dressing.css included with Categories Dressing. Most of the category rules in the standard stylesheet are not applicable to a site using either form of Categories Dressing, so it doesn't matter what you do with them.
It doesn't matter which copy of ch_categories you use, as both are the same.

Thank you!

In category_dressing_defines.php, is there a way to have only the top level cats and 1st level sub-cats display only?

Couple of my cats have 2 and 3 sub cats, which are displaying :(

autoace:

In category_dressing_defines.php, is there a way to have only the top level cats and 1st level sub-cats display only?

Couple of my cats have 2 and 3 sub cats, which are displaying :(

OR is there a css definition that I can simply comment out?

That's what
define('CAT_BOX_ACTIVE_LEVEL', '0|1|9');
is for.

// 'active|highest_level|deepest_level'
//active: 0=all cats, level control/1=full active tree only/2=active only (all cats per level when no cat selected)/
//3=full active tree, others per level/4=like 3, active branches only/5=like 1, no tops/6=like 2, active branches only|
//highest_level: 0=all levels/1=no topcats/etc.|
//deepest_level: 1=only first subcats/2=first & second subcats/etc.
//
(This is slightly different from the v2.7.3 copy of the file, but the highest and deepest level settings will work the same.)
You would want a setting of '0|0|1'.

Glenn,

Thank you. I've been reading it just didn't fully understand it. Your post turned on the 'light'.

Absolutely great mod by the way!!!

One last thing, some of my sub cat titles are somewhat long and continue on the line below - no big deal, except they are not even with the line above. The bottom line is more to the left than the top line.

I'm assuming that to fix that I should play with the padding for #chcategories ul ul a, is that correct?

Hi, I had this all sorted but have since messed it up with a database import :cry:

Having only done this once before how I did it has not stuck! I'm getting there (slowly) but have some issues.

Please see the site here:

http://www.ampmgraphics.com/demo/

I have the three sections and three styles going ok. The problems I have is that the top three (business card design, etc) should be the first three under Design. What should I do to change this?

Second:

Web design (currently bottom of the Printing section) should be the first under Web. What do I do to change this?

Thanks for your help with this..gutted I have to re-do this:cry:

autoace - You may want a negative text-indent, or perhaps in admin you should set Configuration > Layout Settings > Categories separator between subcategories to blank (remove hard-coded indent spaces).

pb4 - To get the first three categories in the "Design" group, change the define from 'CAT_BOX_HEADING_107' to 'CAT_BOX_HEADING_103'.
Looks like you have the Web Design ok now.

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for that...I was just about getting my head back around it again!

Love this addon :smile:

Hello
I just wanted to change the font colour for one category only and the other I want to leave them as they are.
What should I do?

The Cpath of my category is 39

thank you!!:lamo:

Thanks, I will try those options.

alepia - If you use Categories Dressing (which you currently are not), you can define a group for that category and a different group for the following category, and style the first group with the desired color.

The stock categories sidebox you have has instructions in the comments in
/includes/templates/your_template/sideboxes/tpl_categories.php
for making a single category differently styled.

Hi,

How do you activate the chcategories sidebox as there is no readme_ch_categories.txt file in the package?
Have installed as per instructions in readme2_7_3 file but new item is not showing up in Admin > Configuration > Layout Settings as detailed under "To display images in place of selected category names:"

Thanks

Just got it working. Searched through the thread for some clues and found this is where is being activated Tools > Layout Boxes Controller, that was not mentioned in readme file. I'm new to Zen so sorry if my querry was too easy for you :)

readme_ch_categories.txt:```
/*

• Replacement Category Tree for Zen Cart Shop System
• Christoph Handel 2007-06-10
• [email protected]
• Changelog:
• 2005-06-12 initial release
• 2007-06-10 update for zencart 1.3.x
  */

This is a replacement for the Category-Tree Sidebox included in Zencart 1.3.x

It will always display uncollapse all Tree Nodes.

Other than that it has the same functionallity. It uses the same configuration
variables, templates, ... as the original category tree.

= Installation =

Place the two files in the directories indicated by the
folder-structure.

ch_categories_tree_generator.php goes to $SHOP_ROOT/includes/classes/
ch_categories.php goes to $SHOP_ROOT/includes/modules/sideboxes/

Go to the Zen admin interface, Tools, layout boxes controller and add
ch_categories. Turn off the original categories

The Layout Settings page has nothing to do with ch_categories.

Thank you, that was a quick reply.