Displaying the Category name as the Heading Title

[Guest]

Hello!

 

You know how when you drill down your list of categories, and you finally reach a "base" category containing a bunch of products/offerings? The title of that section is simply the word "Offerings". This word is defined in includes/languages/english/index.php

 

In index.php, it is referred to as "HEADING_TITLE".

 

My question is, how can i make "HEADING_TITLE" = the name of the category that the person has drilled down into?

 

For example, on my site, one of my top level categories is "Live Plants - Natives", in the categories infobox on the left hand side.

 

When someone drills into Live Plants - Natives, the page that index.php generates has a HEAD_TITLE of "Choose a category:". This is because there are sub-categories. Say someone chooses "Acacias" as their sub-category. This is one of my "base" categories containing product for sale.

 

When they click "Acacias", the new HEADING_TITLE that index.php generates is simply the word "Offerings". I would like the heading title to be: "Live Plants - Natives --> Acacias: " or similar. Get it?

 

Any ideas how to do this? Or any contributions that already have done this?

 

Thanks ;)

Rimbaud.

[Wendy James]

Hello!

 

You know how when you drill down your list of categories, and you finally reach a "base" category containing a bunch of products/offerings? The title of that section is simply the word "Offerings". This word is defined in includes/languages/english/index.php

 

In index.php, it is referred to as "HEADING_TITLE".

 

My question is, how can i make "HEADING_TITLE" = the name of the category that the person has drilled down into?

 

For example, on my site, one of my top level categories is "Live Plants - Natives", in the categories infobox on the left hand side.

 

When someone drills into Live Plants - Natives, the page that index.php generates has a HEAD_TITLE of "Choose a category:". This is because there are sub-categories. Say someone chooses "Acacias" as their sub-category. This is one of my "base" categories containing product for sale.

 

When they click "Acacias", the new HEADING_TITLE that index.php generates is simply the word "Offerings". I would like the heading title to be:  "Live Plants - Natives  -->  Acacias: " or similar. Get it?

 

Any ideas how to do this? Or any contributions that already have done this?

 

Thanks ;)

Rimbaud.

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Not sure if this is the prettiest way to do this because I have a whole bunch of contibutions added to my site but I changed

 

<?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?>

 

to

 

<?php

if (tep_not_null($category['categories_heading_title']) ) {

echo $category['categories_heading_title'];

} else {

echo HEADING_TITLE;

}

?>

 

in catalalog/index.php. I think it is about line 66 and again on 240 on a clean instal but I could be wrong. The code is there 3 times. I just changed the first 2.

 

Hope that helps.

[Guest]

hi Wendy, thanks so much for this. I am sure this is exactly what i am looking for.

 

I replaced the occurences (3 of them, like you say) with the altered PHP code you wrote.

 

I didnt get an error when i went to my site, but it didn't replace "Offerings" either. I thought, oh, maybe it's $categories not $category. I changed that value but still the same thing.

 

I can only assume that for some reason, (tep_not_null($category['categories_heading_title']) ) is in fact null, on my store.

 

I have only installed a few mods here and there, and certainly nothing to mess with category structures, table structures etc.

 

Is this code straight out of your own page? I was just wondering, maybe there's some little thing that prevents this from working?

 

thanks ;)

[Guest]

actually i just found a contrib that does this.

 

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

 

i imlpemented it per the insrtuctions and it works fine ;)

 

Hope this helps someone

[Wendy James]

actually i just found a contrib that does this.

 

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

 

i imlpemented it per the insrtuctions and it works fine  ;)

 

Hope this helps someone

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Sorry about that, was pretty sure it would work. Like I said I have a bunch of contributions added to my site and they must be effecting the code in some way. I am in no way a pro. Sorry you wasted your time. I should have just suggested one of the contributions I used. Glad you got it working.