Menu Hack

[jay2k5]

I was wondering if anyone with a larger store has come up with a hack to re order the menu to show the main category you are in at the top, my main problem is customers must scroll every time to sellect a new subcategory :(

 

At the moment I'm running a mod to have all sub categories showing so it looks like (red shows selected category) :

 

category 1

Subcategory 1 (1)

Subcategory 1 (2)

Subcategory 1 (3)

category 2

Subcategory 2 (1)

Subcategory 2 (2)

Subcategory 2 (3)

category 3

Subcategory 3 (1)

Subcategory 3 (2)

Subcategory 3 (3)

 

I want it to look like this :

 

category 3

Subcategory 3 (1)

Subcategory 3 (2)

Subcategory 3 (3)

category 1

Subcategory 1 (1)

Subcategory 1 (2)

Subcategory 1 (3)

category 2

Subcategory 2 (1)

Subcategory 2 (2)

Subcategory 2 (3)

 

Basically pushing what ever category (including subcategory) that the customer is in to the top of the list

 

Please help :(

 

As always thank you in advance for your time/help :thumbsup:

 

My Categories.php file :

 

<?php
/*
 $Id: show_subcategories.php,v 1.0 2003/01/08 10:37:00 Exp $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com/

 Based on: main_categories.php Ver. 1.0 by Gustavo Barreto

 History: 1.0 Creation

 Released under the GNU General Public License

*/

// Preorder tree traversal
 function preorder($cid, $level, $foo, $cpath)
 {
global $categories_string, $HTTP_GET_VARS;

// Display link
if ($cid != 0) {
  for ($i=0; $i<$level; $i++)
	$categories_string .=  '  ';
  $categories_string .= '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'cPath
=' . $cpath . $cid) . '">';

// 1.6 Are we on the "path" to selected category?
  $bold = strstr($HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'], $cpath . $cid . '_') ||  $HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'] == $cpath . $cid;
// 1.6 If yes, use <b>
  if ($bold)
	$categories_string .=  '<b>';
  $categories_string .=  $foo[$cid]['name'];
  if ($bold)
	$categories_string .=  '</b>';
  $categories_string .=  '</a>';
// 1.4 SHOW_COUNTS is 'true' or 'false', not true or false
  if (SHOW_COUNTS == 'true') {
	$products_in_category = tep_count_products_in_category($cid);
	if ($products_in_category > 0) {
	  $categories_string .= ' (' . $products_in_category . ')';
	}
  }
  $categories_string .= '<br>';
}

// Traverse category tree- this is for older snapshots pre-November 2002
/*	foreach ($foo as $key => $value) {
  if ($foo[$key]['parent'] == $cid) {
//		print "$key, $level, $cid, $cpath<br>";
	preorder($key, $level+1, $foo, ($level != 0 ? $cpath . $cid . '_' : ''))
;
  } */
// Function used for post November 2002 snapshots
 function tep_show_category($counter) {
global $foo, $categories_string, $id;

for ($a=0; $a<$foo[$counter]['level']; $a++) {
  $categories_string .= "  ";
}
}
 }

?>
<!-- show_subcategories //-->
	  <tr>
		<td class="infoBox_left">

<?php

//////////
// Display box heading
//////////
 $info_box_contents = array();
 $info_box_contents[] = array('align' => 'left', 'text'  => BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES);
 new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, true, false, false, true);

//////////
// Get categories list
//////////
// 1.2 Test for presence of status field for compatibility with older versions
//  $status = tep_db_num_rows(tep_db_query('describe categories status')); used for older snapshots
$status = tep_db_num_rows(tep_db_query('describe ' .  TABLE_CATEGORIES . ' status'));


 $query = "select c.categories_id, cd.categories_name, c.parent_id, c.categories_image
		from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd
		where c.categories_id = cd.categories_id";
// 1.3 Can't have 'where' in an if statement!
 if ($status >0)
$query.= " and c.status = '1'";
 $query.= " and cd.language_id='" . $languages_id ."'
		order by sort_order, cd.categories_name";

 $categories_query = tep_db_query($query);


// Initiate tree traverse
 $categories_string = '';
 preorder(0, 0, $foo, '');

//////////
// Display box contents
//////////
 $info_box_contents = array();
 $row = 0;
 $col = 0;
 while ($categories = tep_db_fetch_array($categories_query)) {
  if ($categories['parent_id'] == 0) 
  {
		$temp_cPath_array = $cPath_array;  //Johan's solution - kill the array but save it for the rest of the site
	 unset($cPath_array);

		$cPath_new = tep_get_path($categories['categories_id']);

	 $text_subcategories = '';
 $subcategories_query = tep_db_query($query);
 while ($subcategories = tep_db_fetch_array($subcategories_query)) 
	 {

			if ($subcategories['parent_id'] == $categories['categories_id'])
			{

									$cPath_new_sub = "cPath="  . $categories['categories_id'] . "_" . $subcategories['categories_id'];

				$text_subcategories .= '' . '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new_sub, 'NONSSL') . '" class="menusubcateg">' . '   ' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'pointer_blue_light.gif', '') . $subcategories['categories_name'] . '</a>' . " ";
			} // if
 } // While Interno
$info_box_contents[$row] = array('align' => 'left',
									   'params' => 'class="smallText" width="125" valign="top"',
									   'text' => '' . '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new, 'NONSSL') . '" class="menucateg"><b>' . ' ' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'pointer_blue.gif', '') . $categories['categories_name'] . '</b></a>' . $text_subcategories);
$col ++;
if ($col > 0) 
	{
			$col = 0;
			$row ++;
}
$cPath_array = $temp_cPath_array; //Re-enable the array for the rest of the code
  }
 }
new noborderBox2($info_box_contents, true);


?>
		</td>
	  </tr>
<!-- show_subcategories_eof //-->

[jay2k5]

Bump :(