Width of Categories Box ...

[frank.uray]

Hi all

 

I am new in using oscommerce.

Can somebody tell me how I can change the width of the categories box on the left side?

 

Is there anywhere a documentation about things like that?

How to change layout of my shop?

 

Thanks for any help!

 

Best regards

Frank Uray

[juniorprg]

CHeck here http://www.oscommerce.info/

 

its the offical site abt installation and customization of OSC

[frank.uray]

thanks for the information, but I cannot find something about change the width of the categories box ...:-((

[Guest]

Look for these lines in includes/application_top.php

 

// customization for the design layout
 define('BOX_WIDTH', 125); // how wide the boxes should be in pixels (default: 125)

Change 125 (the default value) to what you require.

 

This will change the width on both left and right sides.

[Guest]

It is at least 10 times more complicated to change the left side only.

You have to manually edit many .php pages.

 

For example in catalog/index.php (the homepage)

 

Edit the BOX_WIDTH with a hard-coded value or you can create a new constant in includes/application_top.php by using PHP's define() function.

 

    <td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<!-- left_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_left.php'); ?>
<!-- left_navigation_eof //-->
   </table></td>

Have fun! :thumbsup:

[Guest]

Alternative solution can be found on http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions.