uninstall/remove coolMenu

[MSADMIN]

my boss needs the coolmenu removes for so many reasons. i tried removing it and i messed up the entire site. luckily i had a backup of a few files and put it back together again.

 

 

is there a surefire way of removing it? I have searched the boards and the net to no avail. Let me know and thanks in advance.

 

Dave

[Guest]

Unistall should be the reverse of the install. Take out the mods.

[Nairn]

If I were to remove it from my site I'd search for all instances of "require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'coolmenu.php');" & "<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2" SRC="includes/menu_animation.js"></SCRIPT>" from your main body files and remove them.

 

Then I'd check my "/includes/column_left.php" file, ensure there are no references to "Coolmenu.php" in there (if so, delete) and reinstigate the following code:

 

if ((USE_CACHE == 'true') && empty($SID)) {

echo tep_cache_categories_box();

} else {

include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'categories.php');

}

 

 

That's what I'd do. Trouble is, I've slightly modded my site and can't quite recall the default configuration - it's not far off if it is.

 

...Now I have a question for you - Why is your boss in such a rush to get rid of it? If it's no good, I need to know very soon - I'm supposedly going live in a couple of weeks!

 

Good luck!

[kepa]

I use it on two of my sites, and not one a couple of them. In my case, it depends on shopping behavior of my customers, category layouts, and the product line. I have determined that it comes down do whether or not your customer would find it useful to "flip" between SUBCATEGORIES. The cool menu is not good for that since you have to keep going back over it over and over again to reopen the subcategories. The default category display (and it's derivatives) are useful because you CAN do this as it remains open and doesn't collapse.

[MSADMIN]

some how my boss has a program that generates HTML pages from all the product view and description pages and with coolmenu it messes up if he has sub-categories. he needs the html generator so he can get spidered easily(er).

 

I like it but it's up to him.

 

Thanks for the responses everyone.

 

 

Dave

[MSADMIN]

Validate your oscommerce sites at http://validator.w3.org and find out how many validation errors oscommerce comes with. pretty scary.