Help with a couple of lines of PHP

[ComicWisdom]

I am trying to change the heading titles on my pages to match the category level being viewed.

 

When a top category is listed, I want the page heading to read ‘Available Species.”

I have that figured out with this.

 

define('HEADING_TITLE', 'Available Species');

 

What I think I need to do is to add 2 new definitions, as below, one for the next category level down that will read “Available Specimen,” and another for anything that doesn’t fit in these categories like “accessories” which will have a blank heading or at least a heading on a template page.

 

 
define(SUBCAT_HEADING_TITLE’, ‘Available Specimen’);
define (ACCCAT_HEADING_TITLE’, ‘ ‘);

 

The problem is that I don’t know how to phrase the “if” statement to make the program substitute headings.

 

Could someone help please?

[mattevans]

I am trying to change the heading titles on my pages to match the category level being viewed.

 

When a top category is listed, I want the page heading to read ‘Available Species.”

I have that figured out with this.

 

define('HEADING_TITLE', 'Available Species');

 

What I think I need to do is to add 2 new definitions, as below, one for the next category level down that will read “Available Specimen,” and another for anything that doesn’t fit in these categories like “accessories” which will have a blank heading or at least a heading on a template page.

 

 
define(SUBCAT_HEADING_TITLE’, ‘Available Specimen’);
define (ACCCAT_HEADING_TITLE’, ‘ ‘);

 

The problem is that I don’t know how to phrase the “if” statement to make the program substitute headings.

 

Could someone help please?

 

Hi Ralph,

 

What I tend to do is reference the cPath number in the URL bar.

 

For example:

 

If you are viewing the "Available Specimen" page, you will notice in the address (URL) bar there will be something similar to...

 

index.php?cPath=30& PHPSESSID

 

You simply reference to the cPath number...

 

if ($HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'] == '30')
{
		 echo '<tr>
			<td><span class="headingMatt">' . HEADING_TITLE; .' </span></td>
		  </tr>';			  
}
else if($HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'] == '24')
{				
		 echo '<tr>
			<td><span class="headingMatt">' . OTHER_HEADING_TITLE; .' </span></td>
		  </tr>';
}

 

Try something along those lines.

You could also search through the Contributions because I'm pretty sure there will be something for this.

[ComicWisdom]

Hi Ralph,

 

What I tend to do is reference the cPath number in the URL bar.

 

For example:

 

If you are viewing the "Available Specimen" page, you will notice in the address (URL) bar there will be something similar to...

 

index.php?cPath=30& PHPSESSID

 

You simply reference to the cPath number...

 

if ($HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'] == '30')
{
		 echo '<tr>
			<td><span class="headingMatt">' . HEADING_TITLE; .' </span></td>
		  </tr>';			  
}
else if($HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'] == '24')
{				
		 echo '<tr>
			<td><span class="headingMatt">' . OTHER_HEADING_TITLE; .' </span></td>
		  </tr>';
}

 

Try something along those lines.

You could also search through the Contributions because I'm pretty sure there will be something for this.

 

This would work great with top level categories and I am using it in spots, but I need the lower level categories to change. For example:

 

NOT

index.php?cPath=30& PHPSESSID

 

BUT

index.php?cPath=30_1& PHPSESSID

Or

index.php?cPath=467_322& PHPSESSID

 

And all those in between. So I'm sure it has to be written in code that would express it by level. I think. Though I don't know how.

 

There are 26-30 categories that would be titled "Available Species".

About 3500 subcategories that would be labled "Available Specimens"

 

I have looked through the contributions but have found nothing close.

[sugiartha]

You can adopt the breadcrumb codes in includes/application_top.php

[Qihun]

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1954

 

look at this contribution , it's maybe answer your question

[bill110]

I think this one might work better for your situation

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4294

Gives each category andsub cat its own page heading and descriptions. (good for seo)

[ComicWisdom]

Thank you for the help. So far, I am two-thirds of the way there.

 

 

By analysing the contribution.:

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1954

which gives the directions:

 

"In catalog/index.php (back it up first!), change the first 2 occurrences of HEADING_TITLE (line 76 & line 254)."

 

I have discoverd that I can change the second occurence of HEADING_TITLE to SUBCAT_HEADING_TITLE and I get exactly what I want for my first two needs.

 

Categories show: Available Species

SubCategories show: Available Specimen

 

Now if I can only figure out what to do with the group of Accessories so that these pages of which there are only a few and have their titles in their template, show nothing at all, I'll be all set.

 

Any more ideas out there?