"Next" and "Previous" functionality on sub-categories

[matthew_scullion]

Hi,

 

I am currently building a web site to sell lighting products, called yourlightsource.co.uk. I have built it in OS Commerce and now almost have the site exactly as I want it. However, I have one small problem.

 

I am using a product structure of Category -> Sub-Category -> Product. In some of the categories there are lots of sub-categories, which means lots of category images/links are displaying when you enter the category - too many to be visually pleasing I think. For instance, if a user selects the category 'Contemporary Interior Lights' there are 26 sub-categories presented immediately.

 

What I would like to do is have a sub-category page which works like the product listing pages, where if there are lots of entries, the listing is simply split over multiple pages and 'Next' and 'Previous' links are provided. is this possible?

 

My site is being built at a temporary address of http://www.matt-scullion.co.uk/catalog if you want to see it. Any other critique welcome but bear in mind it's not quite finished yet!

 

Many thanks for any help.

 

Regards, Matthew

[♥Monika in Germany]

Matthew, splitting can be done for any purpose as the splitting itself is not tied to a special kind of query. I have not seen a module for this though, so you would need to custom code it.

[matthew_scullion]

Matthew, splitting can be done for any purpose as the splitting itself is not tied to a special kind of query. I have not seen a module for this though, so you would need to custom code it.

 

HI Monika, thanks for your input. Unfortunately I not much of a PHP developer. Any hints on how I could code this?

 

Or does anyone have a module/contribution/code snippet?

 

Many thanks.

[♥Monika in Germany]

I suggest you copy in the module that fits the looks you want most (probably specials.php) and then just change the query to the existing one for cetegories and rename fields for display.

[matthew_scullion]

Thanks Monica, I'll try that.