Categories On Front Page

[oscjww103]

Hi all I used a good contrib in OSC to show a picture grid of all categories on the front page but can't seem to get it working in OSCMAX. How does this WYSIWYG editor affect changes to the index.php code?


The code I used is below.

 <table border="0" width="1000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" align="center">
  <tr>
    <td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top" background="aqb/images/left_column.jpg"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
<!-- left_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_left.php'); ?>
<!-- left_navigation_eof //-->
    </table></td>
<!-- body_text //-->
<?php
if ($category_depth == 'nested') {
    $category_query = tep_db_query("select cd.categories_name, c.categories_image, cd.categories_htc_title_tag, cd.categories_htc_description from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd where c.categories_id = '" . (int)$current_category_id . "' and cd.categories_id = '" . (int)$current_category_id . "' and cd.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "'");
    $category = tep_db_fetch_array($category_query);
?>
    <td width="100%" valign="top"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      <tr>
        <td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
          <tr>
            <td><h1><?php echo $category['categories_htc_title_tag']; ?></h1></td>
           <td class="pageHeading" align="right"><?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $category['categories_image'], $category['categories_name'], HEADING_IMAGE_WIDTH, HEADING_IMAGE_HEIGHT); ?></td>
          </tr>
           <?php if (tep_not_null($category['categories_htc_description'])) { ?> 
          <tr>
           <td><?php echo tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '100%', '10'); ?></td>
          </tr>
<?php if (DISPLAY_CATS_ON_MAIN == 'true'){
        include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_CAT_TEXTBOX_MODULE); // added for Subcategory textboxes
    }
?>
<?php if (DISPLAY_CATS_ON_MAIN == 'true'){
        include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_CAT_TEXTBOX_MODULE); // added for Subcategory textboxes
    }
?>
          <tr>
           <td><h2><?php echo $category['categories_htc_description']; ?></h2></td>
          </tr>
          <?php } ?>
        </table></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><?php echo tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '100%', '10'); ?></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
          <tr>
            <td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
              <tr>
<?php
    if (isset($cPath) && strpos('_', $cPath)) {
// check to see if there are deeper categories within the current category
      $category_links = array_reverse($cPath_array);
      for($i=0, $n=sizeof($category_links); $i<$n; $i++) {
        $categories_query = tep_db_query("select count(*) as total from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd where c.parent_id = '" . (int)$category_links[$i] . "' and c.categories_id = cd.categories_id and cd.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "'");
        $categories = tep_db_fetch_array($categories_query);
        if ($categories['total'] < 1) {
          // do nothing, go through the loop
        } else {
          $categories_query = tep_db_query("select c.categories_id, cd.categories_name, c.categories_image, c.parent_id from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd where c.parent_id = '" . (int)$category_links[$i] . "' and c.categories_id = cd.categories_id and cd.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "' order by sort_order, cd.categories_name");
          break; // we've found the deepest category the customer is in
        }
      }
    } else {
      $categories_query = tep_db_query("select c.categories_id, cd.categories_name, c.categories_image, c.parent_id from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd where c.parent_id = '" . (int)$current_category_id . "' and c.categories_id = cd.categories_id and cd.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "' order by sort_order, cd.categories_name");
    }

    $number_of_categories = tep_db_num_rows($categories_query);

    $rows = 0;
    while ($categories = tep_db_fetch_array($categories_query)) {
      $rows++;
      $cPath_new = tep_get_path($categories['categories_id']);
      $width = (int)(100 / MAX_DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_PER_ROW) . '%';
      echo '                <td align="center" class="smallText" width="' . $width . '" valign="top"><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $categories['categories_image'], $categories['categories_name'], SUBCATEGORY_IMAGE_WIDTH, SUBCATEGORY_IMAGE_HEIGHT) . '<br>' . $categories['categories_name'] . '</a></td>' . "\n";
      if ((($rows / MAX_DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_PER_ROW) == floor($rows / MAX_DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_PER_ROW)) && ($rows != $number_of_categories)) {
        echo '              </tr>' . "\n";
        echo '              <tr>' . "\n";
      }
    }  

[Gizmor]

If i read your code quick then i see it isnt following the BTS code that OSCmax uses, so instead of putting it in index.php you should put it in templates/template_name/content/index_nested.tpl.php

but i could be wrong ofcourse.

[oscjww103]

Thanks for the suggestion Gizmor - not being familiar with the OSCMAX code I'm struggling to implement it. The default AABOX template doesn't seem to have the index_nested file you mention so i tried the main_page.tpl.php but i'm not sure where to put the code or how much of it i need to copy over

[ALElder]

Then you need to look in:

templates/fallback/content/index_nested.tpl.php

[oscjww103]

Thanks for the suggestion but adding the code into that file doesn't seem to do anything. Does anyone know how to integrate this contrib?

[michael_s]

You have to add the code correctly

See the BTS template primer for info on how to add mods to the template sytem.