Main categories on Horizontal menu, specific sub-cat on left column

[ASTON]

I have been searching this forum and trial and error for a few attempts but bear no fruit so far!

I have set my main categories (A,B,C,D,E) as horizontal menu on top half of the page. Have done this no problem. The next bit is where I need help.

When I click on say for example category A, I would like ONLY sub-cat of A be shown on left column. i.e. showing ONLY sub-cat A1, A2, A3,A4. And when I then click D on horizontal menu, ONLY sub-cat D1,D2,D3 shown on left column.


Please can someone advise how can i do this?

See this website for example

http://www.johnlewis.com/Technology/Area.aspx

[pgmarshall]

Try this - I have not done it yet - but think I will - let me know if it works for you.

Link to eBook extract

Hope this helps

pgmarshall

[pgmarshall]

Or this ... from this board!

Hide Parent Category and Display only Child or Sub Category in a DHTML menu

regards,

pgmarshall

[ASTON]

Hi pgmarshall,

Thanks for the pointers, much appreciated! …. I looked at this ‘Hide Parent Category and Display only Child or Sub Category in a DHTML menu’ before, it is for dhtml…. extract some info from it to make mod to categories.php, but wasn;t running properly. I’ll have a look at the ebook extract later today.

If any one has any idea on this pls drop in.

Cheers

[pgmarshall]

ASTON,

I have been trying to fix my menu structure and as such have thought of a way that you could get what you are looking for.

If you use the default menu code (the text based one) - look at categories.php in boxes.

I have editted and set a new varaible $catlevel = 0

for ($i=0; $i<$tree[$counter]['level']; $i++) {
$boxContent .= "&nbsp;&nbsp;";
}

to

for ($i=0; $i<$tree[$counter]['level']; $i++) {
$boxContent .= "&nbsp;&nbsp;";
$catlevel .= $catlevel + 1;
}

Which gives me a variable to control the class of each of the different levels - I have wrapped the <a href inside a <tr> and then created a class in the stylesheet.css to correspond to the levels.

I thought you could use this to put some conditional code into your menu structure eg.

if $catlevel = 0 (ie. top level) then put a ' ' instead of the <a href lines and set the <tr> height = 0 in the css for TR.0 level

I think this would have the effect of hiding your top category but still displaying the children and maintaining the functionality of the menu.

Hope this helps,

pgmarshall

[d3vilr3d]

Hi Guys,

I followed the ebook's instruction with little success.

The parent category still shows up, just without links.

Anyone know how to get the parent category completely hidden?

I think the code

  if (isset($cPath) && tep_not_null($cPath) && tep_has_category_subcategories($cPath)){

is no functional.

Thanks,
William