Category frontpage image stretch

[adamfilip]

Firstly I must say that im a complete newbie and have almost no programming ability

 

my site in progress is here

http://www.blackorchiddesigns.ca/catalog/

 

near the bottom is the Categories heading with an image and the subheading of corsets

the image is squished.

 

In the admin config i have specified image dimensions that should work properly

I have tried to install the Contribution found here

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...arch,categories

 

if it helps

the made category file code is as follows, im not sure if this code is what is affecting the image squish/stretch

 

please help me out

 

<?php
/*
 $Id: main_categories.php,v 1.0a 2002/08/01 10:37:00 Exp $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com/

 Copyright (c) 2002 Barreto
 Gustavo Barreto <gustavo@barreto.net>
 http://www.barreto.net/

 Based on: all_categories.php Ver. 1.6 by Christian Lescuyer

 History: 1.0 Creation
   1.0a Correction: Extra Carriage Returns
   1.1  added parameters to change display options -- mdt

 Released under the GNU General Public License

*/

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// PARAMETERS
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$item_column_number = 4;  // range of 1 to 9
$item_title_on_newline = true;	// true or false

// for item and subcategory options, suugest that you just put in CSS code
// you can also just define a class and then change it in a template addon like BTS
$item_div_options = 'style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;font-size:larger;margin-top:5px;"';
$item_subcategories_options = '';

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// CODE - do not change below here
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

// error checking on parameters
if($item_column_number < 1)
{
$item_column_number = 1;
}
if($item_column_number > 9)
{
$item_column_number = 9;
}
if($item_title_on_newline)
{
$item_separator = '<br>';
} else {
$item_separator = ' ';
}

// Preorder tree traversal
 function preorder($cid, $level, $foo, $cpath)
 {
   global $categories_string, $HTTP_GET_VARS;

// Display link
   if ($cid != 0) {
     for ($i=0; $i<$level; $i++)
       $categories_string .=  '  ';
     $categories_string .= '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'cPath
=' . $cpath . $cid) . '">';
// 1.6 Are we on the "path" to selected category?
     $bold = strstr($HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'], $cpath . $cid . '_') || $HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'] == $cpath . $cid;
// 1.6 If yes, use <b>
     if ($bold)
       $categories_string .=  '<b>';
     $categories_string .=  $foo[$cid]['name'];
     if ($bold)
       $categories_string .=  '</b>';
     $categories_string .=  '</a>';
// 1.4 SHOW_COUNTS is 'true' or 'false', not true or false
     if (SHOW_COUNTS == 'false') {
       $products_in_category = tep_count_products_in_category($cid);
       if ($products_in_category > 0) {
         $categories_string .= ' (' . $products_in_category . ')';
       }
     }
     $categories_string .= '<br>';
   }

// Traverse category tree
   if (is_array($foo)) {
     foreach ($foo as $key => $value) {
       if ($foo[$key]['parent'] == $cid) {
         preorder($key, $level+1, $foo, ($level != 0 ? $cpath . $cid . '_' : ''));
       }
     }
   }
 }

?>
<!-- main_categories //-->
         <tr>
           <td>
<?php
//////////
// Display box heading
//////////
/* $info_box_contents = array();
 $info_box_contents[] = array('align' => 'left', 'text'  => BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES);
 new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, false, false);*/


//////////
// Get categories list
//////////
// 1.2 Test for presence of status field for compatibility with older versions
 $status = tep_db_num_rows(tep_db_query('describe categories status'));

 $query = "select c.categories_id, cd.categories_name, c.parent_id, c.categories_image
           from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION .
" cd
           where c.categories_id = cd.categories_id";
// 1.3 Can't have 'where' in an if statement!
 if ($status >0)
   $query.= " and c.status = '1'";
 $query.= " and cd.language_id='" . $languages_id ."'
           order by sort_order, cd.categories_name";

 $categories_query = tep_db_query($query);


// Initiate tree traverse
$categories_string = '';
preorder(0, 0, $foo, '');

//////////
// Display box contents
//////////

$info_box_contents = array();

$row = 0;
$col = 0;
while ($categories = tep_db_fetch_array($categories_query))
{
if ($categories['parent_id'] == 0)
   {
  	 $cPath_new = tep_get_path($categories['categories_id']);
   /*"OMITED SO IT DOESNT DISPLAY SUBCATEGORIES"	$text_subcategories = '';
  	 $subcategories_query = tep_db_query($query);
  	 while ($subcategories = tep_db_fetch_array($subcategories_query))*/
  	 {
    	 if ($subcategories['parent_id'] == $categories['categories_id'])
   {
               $cPath_new_sub = "cPath="  . $categories['categories_id']/*"OMITED SO IT DOESNT DISPLAY SUBCATEGORIES" . "_" . $subcategories['categories_id']*/;
               $text_subcategories .= '? <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new_sub, 'NONSSL') . '">';
               $text_subcategories .= $subcategories['categories_name'] . '</a>' . " ";
               
      	 } // if ($subcategories['parent_id'] == $categories['categories_id'])

  	 } // while ($subcategories = tep_db_fetch_array($subcategories_query))
 
 $info_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('align' => 'left',
                                          'params' => 'class="smallText" width="33%" valign="top"',
                                          'text' => '<div '. $item_div_options . '><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new, 'NONSSL') . '">' .  tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $categories['categories_image'], $categories['categories_name'], SUBCATEGORY_IMAGE_WIDTH, SUBCATEGORY_IMAGE_HEIGHT) . '</a>' . $item_separator . '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new, 'NONSSL') . '">' . $categories['categories_name'] . '</a><DIV ' . $item_subcategories_options . '>' . $text_subcategories . '</DIV></DIV>');
   
  	 // determine the column position to see if we need to go to a new row
  	 $col ++;
  	 if ($col > ($item_column_number - 1))
  	 {
       $col = 0;
       $row ++;
       
  	 } //if ($col > ($number_of_columns - 1))
  	 
   } //if ($categories['parent_id'] == 0)

} // while ($categories = tep_db_fetch_array($categories_query))

//output the contents
new contentBox($info_box_contents);
?>
           </td>
         </tr>
<!-- main_categories_eof //-->