Need help with Display Category Name In Main Content

[ozstar]

HI,

 

This seems to be just what I need however I can't get it to work even with the update changes.

 

Display Category Name In Main Content by Nik Le Page

 

Two files to change..

 

1. catalog/inc/lang/eng/index.php

 

- works (it just changes the title "Look what we see'

 

 

2. catalog/index.php

- doesn't seem to work - only puts a "/" where the actual Catalog name should be.

 

This is the code

 

In /catalog/index.php, find this code (line 232 in clean osCommerce v2.2 MS) -

 

<td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td class="pageHeading"><?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?></td>

<?php

// optional Product List Filter

 

 

to something like:

 

<td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td class="pageHeading">

<?php

// hacked to display current category name in main content area! Nik

echo HEADING_TITLE . '\'' . $tree[$current_category_id]['name'] . '\'';

?>

</td>

 

<?php

// optional Product List Filter

[Guest]

I have had this contrib installed for some time and noticed soon after installing that all I got most of the time was blank where the tree name was supposed to be.

 

I'm just now revisiting it and am finding that it seems no one else has a solution either.

 

If anyone has a solution it would be great to hear from you.

I beleive it's just not the right call function, but not being a php'er only hacker at best I don't know what to do with it.

 

 

HI,

 

This seems to be just what I need however I can't get it to work even with the update changes.

 

Display Category Name In Main Content by Nik Le Page

 

Two files to change..

 

1. catalog/inc/lang/eng/index.php

 

- works (it just changes the title "Look what we see'

2. catalog/index.php

- doesn't seem to work - only puts a "/" where the actual Catalog name should be.

 

This is the code

 

In /catalog/index.php, find this code (line 232 in clean osCommerce v2.2 MS) -

 

<td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td class="pageHeading"><?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?></td>

<?php

// optional Product List Filter

to something like:

 

<td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td class="pageHeading">

<?php

// hacked to display current category name in main content area! Nik

echo HEADING_TITLE . '\'' . $tree[$current_category_id]['name'] . '\'';

?>

</td>

 

<?php

// optional Product List Filter

[Guest]

I have had this contrib installed for some time and noticed soon after installing that all I got most of the time was blank where the tree name was supposed to be.

 

I'm just now revisiting it and am finding that it seems no one else has a solution either.

 

If anyone has a solution it would be great to hear from you.

I beleive it's just not the right call function, but not being a php'er only hacker at best I don't know what to do with it.

 

 

Just found the answer here: http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=167121&hl=

 

Replace this, as per this particular contribution.

<?php echo HEADING_TITLE . '\'' . ($tree[$current_category_id]['name']) . '\''; ?>

 

With this

<?php echo HEADING_TITLE . '\'' . $category['categories_name'] . '\''; ?>

 

And add this just above. (See more detail below)

  $category_query = tep_db_query("select categories_name from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " where categories_id = '" . (int)$current_category_id . "' and language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "'");
$category = tep_db_fetch_array($category_query);

 

What you need to end up with is this.

	  }
  }

 $category_query = tep_db_query("select categories_name from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " where categories_id = '" . (int)$current_category_id . "' and language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "'");
$category = tep_db_fetch_array($category_query);
?>
<td width="100%" valign="top"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
	<td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	  <tr>
		<td class="pageHeading"><?php echo HEADING_TITLE . '\'' . $category['categories_name'] . '\''; ?></td>

 

I've actually tweeked mine a little further so the catagory name stands out better and it can be done to your desire but you should get the idea from the example below.

<?php echo '<font size="2">' . HEADING_TITLE . '</font>\'' . $category['categories_name'] . '\''; ?>

 

I had a hunch this sort of query would be required, I'm glad someone else was able to get a working function for this. Thanks very much go to the author this.