how to do this catagories styley box.. please help!

December 11, 2002

Hi,

does anybody know how to do this catagories styley box..as featured in this website.. http://www.dcpcwebdesign.co.uk/

Thanks :D [/url]

mattice · December 11, 2002

http://www.dcpcwebdesign.co.uk/download/do...loadcatalog.zip

should give you an idea

:D

December 11, 2002

So, we just replace our "catalog" dir with the one in the zip file?

Yes I'm a newbie!

December 11, 2002

No No No.

You will need to alter 2 files located

includes/boxes/categories.php

includes/classes/boxes.php

BACK UP FIRST

The only way I could think of doing this seperate and different box was to create a new box section as below.

Open up includes/classes/boxes.php

Firstly you need to change the code below around line 13

class tableBox {

   var $table_border = '0';

   var $table_width = '100%';

   var $table_cellspacing = '0';

   var $table_cellpadding = '2';

   var $table_parameters = '';

   var $table_row_parameters = '';

   var $table_data_parameters = '';

to this:

class tableBox {

   var $table_border = '0';

   var $table_width = '100%';

   var $table_cellspacing = '0';

   var $table_cellpadding = '2';

   var $table_parameters = '';

   var $table_row_parameters = '';

   var $table_data_parameters = '';

   var $table_class = '';

Next change the code below around line 26:

// class constructor

   function tableBox($contents, $direct_output = false) {

     $tableBox_string = '<table border="' . $this->table_border . '" width="' . $this->table_width . '" cellspacing="' . $this->table_cellspacing . '" cellpadding="' . $this->table_cellpadding . '"';

to this:

// class constructor

   function tableBox($contents, $direct_output = false) {

     $tableBox_string = '<' . $this->table_align . '><table border="' . $this->table_border . '" class="' . $this->table_class . '" width="' . $this->table_width . '" cellspacing="' . $this->table_cellspacing . '" cellpadding="' . $this->table_cellpadding . '"';

Now add the code below around line 80, before class categoriesBox extends tableBox { :

class categoriesBox extends tableBox {

function categoriesBox($contents) {

     $info_box_contents = array();

     $info_box_contents[] = array('text' => $this->categoriesBoxContents($contents));

     $this->table_cellpadding = '0';

     $this->table_class = 'noclass';

     $this->tableBox($info_box_contents, true);

   }



function categoriesBoxContents($contents) {

     $this->table_cellpadding = '0';

     $this->table_class = 'noclass';

     $info_box_contents = array();

     $info_box_contents[] = array(array('text' => tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '100%', '1')));

     for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($contents); $i++) {

       $info_box_contents[] = array(array('align' => 'center', 'params' => 'class="noclass"', 'text' => $contents[$i]['text']));

     }

     $info_box_contents[] = array(array('text' => tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '100%', '1')));

     return $this->tableBox($info_box_contents);

   }

}

Save and close.

Now open up inludes/boxes/categories.php

Select all

And paste in the code below

<?php

/*

 $Id: categories.php,v 1.21 2002/07/03 09:48:06 dgw_ Exp $



 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions

 http://www.oscommerce.com



 Copyright (c) 2002 osCommerce



 Released under the GNU General Public License

*/



  function tep_show_category($counter) {

   global $foo, $categories_string, $id;



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

     //$categories_string .= "  ";

}



// display category name

if ( ($id) && (in_array($counter, $id)) ) {



   if ($foo[$counter]['parent'] == 0) {

     $cPath_new = 'cPath=' . $counter;

   } else {

     $cPath_new = 'cPath=' . $foo[$counter]['path'];



   }

// This part leaves out the <a href when each category is selected



     $categories_string .= '<img src="images/navi/' . $foo[$counter]['name'] . '_n.gif" alt="' . $foo[$counter]['name'] . '" name="' . $foo[$counter]['name'] . '" width="93"  height="20">';

$categories_string .= tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '100%', '5');



   }else{



$categories_string .= '<a href="';



   if ($foo[$counter]['parent'] == 0) {

     $cPath_new = 'cPath=' . $counter;

   } else {

     $cPath_new = 'cPath=' . $foo[$counter]['path'];



   }

   $categories_string .= tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new);

   $categories_string .= '">';

$categories_string .= '<img src="images/navi/' . $foo[$counter]['name'] . '.gif" alt="' . $foo[$counter]['name'] . '" name="' . $foo[$counter]['name'] . '" width="93"  height="20" border="0"';

$categories_string .= 'hsrc="images/navi/' . $foo[$counter]['name'] . '_h.gif"

width="93"  height="20" border="0">';

   $categories_string .= '</a>';

$categories_string .= tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '100%', '5');

}

   $categories_string .= '<br>';



   if ($foo[$counter]['next_id']) {

     tep_show_category($foo[$counter]['next_id']);

   }

 }

?>

<!-- categories //-->



<tr>

<td>

<?php

$categories_string = '';



 $categories_query = tep_db_query("select c.categories_id, cd.categories_name, c.parent_id from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd where c.parent_id = '0' and c.categories_id = cd.categories_id and cd.language_id='" . $languages_id ."' order by sort_order, cd.categories_name");

 while ($categories = tep_db_fetch_array($categories_query))  {

   $foo[$categories['categories_id']] = array(

                                       'name' => $categories['categories_name'],

                                       'parent' => $categories['parent_id'],

                                       'level' => 0,

                                       'path' => $categories['categories_id'],

                                       'next_id' => false

                                      );



   if (isset($prev_id)) {

     $foo[$prev_id]['next_id'] = $categories['categories_id'];

   }



   $prev_id = $categories['categories_id'];



   if (!isset($first_element)) {

     $first_element = $categories['categories_id'];

   }

 }



 //------------------------

 if ($cPath) {

   $id = split('_', $cPath);

   reset($id);

   while (list($key, $value) = each($id)) {

     $new_path .= $value;

     unset($prev_id);

     unset($first_id);

     $categories_query = tep_db_query("select c.categories_id, cd.categories_name, c.parent_id from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd where c.parent_id = '" . $value . "' and c.categories_id = cd.categories_id and cd.language_id='" . $languages_id ."' order by sort_order, cd.categories_name");

     $category_check = tep_db_num_rows($categories_query);

     while ($row = tep_db_fetch_array($categories_query)) {

       $foo[$row['categories_id']] = array(

                                           'name' => $row['categories_name'],

                                           'parent' => $row['parent_id'],

                                           'level' => $key+1,

                                           'path' => $new_path . '_' . $row['categories_id'],

                                           'next_id' => false

                                          );



       if (isset($prev_id)) {

         $foo[$prev_id]['next_id'] = $row['categories_id'];

       }



       $prev_id = $row['categories_id'];



       if (!isset($first_id)) {

         $first_id = $row['categories_id'];

       }



       $last_id = $row['categories_id'];

     }

     if ($category_check != 0) {

       $foo[$last_id]['next_id'] = $foo[$value]['next_id'];

       $foo[$value]['next_id'] = $first_id;

     }



     $new_path .= '_';

   }

 }



 tep_show_category($first_element); 



 $info_box_contents = array();

 $info_box_contents[] = array('align' => 'center',

                              'text'  => $categories_string

                             );

 new categoriesBox($info_box_contents);

?>



<!-- This is where you will close your center cell and include your right side of your box

and then finally close out your custom box.  Be sure and leave the "</td> and </tr>" tags.

they ensure the sanctity of your overall page layout. //-->



</td>

</tr>





<!-- categories_eof //-->

If any one wants the files emailing please [email protected]

December 11, 2002

Okay, so I don't need to replace everything. I ONLY need to alter the files as you described? Okay, I may be a newbie to OSC, but I'm not a newbie to programming :) Still learning php though.

Thanks for the reply lango!

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