Remove 'box look' from categories.php

[sgtpepper]

How can I remove the whole 'box look' from categories.php? I would like to remove the heading, and the box backgrounds. But only for categories.php

 

The other boxes in the left column are fine.

 

Thanks

[belladonna]

Have you tried www.oscdox.com? I believe it is explained in the documentation. You can also edit the respective php-files. :)

[sgtpepper]

I tried looking through that website. It still needs more content to be effective. From what I could tell, what it gives is usually found in this forum by searching.

 

I explained how to change ALL the boxes, using boxes.php...that isnt what I can trying to do. I want to remove the 'box look' only from categories, while keeping the box look for everything else.

 

I know it should be simply removing some code in categories.php but I am not sure what I should remove. Everything I have tried seems to also remove the contents of the box. Any suggestions would be helpful...

 

Thanks

[mattice]

The categories box makes use (like all boxes) of the box class.

It basically does a lot of queries on the db and forms one big long string with all the category links in it.

 

Then a box object is created and fed with an array containing the layout bits and that string...

(The famous new infoBox($info_box_contents); )

 

So if you just skip that part and use the $categories_string

you can poor it in any html layout you desire.

 

Make sure the categories.php starts with <tr><td> and ends with </td></tr> or your table layout will freak out.

Boxes have those tags by default so don't remove them unless you know what you're doing 'html-table-wise' ;)

 

Regards,

Mattice

[sgtpepper]

Mattice,

 

Thanks for the help...but I am still a little confused. Here is what I am trying to do. I want to create the sub categories so they are placed in products_info near the product description.

 

I have have created a file in /includes/boxes called subcategories.php which is a copy of categories, but with everything but sub categories commented out. The code is below:

 

<?php

/*

$Id: categories.php,v 1.20 2002/06/05 19:18:22 dgw_ Exp $

 

osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions

 

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 .= '">';

 

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

$categories_string .= '<b>';

}

 

// display category name

$categories_string .= $foo[$counter]['name'];

 

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

$categories_string .= '</b>';

}

 

if (tep_has_category_subcategories($counter)) {

$categories_string .= '';

}

 

$categories_string .= '</a>';

 

if (SHOW_COUNTS == 'true') {

$products_in_category = tep_count_products_in_category($counter);

if ($products_in_category > 0) {

$categories_string .= ' (' . $products_in_category . ')';

}

}

 

$categories_string .= '<br>';

 

if ($foo[$counter]['next_id']) {

tep_show_category2($foo[$counter]['next_id']);

}

}

?>

<!-- categories //-->

<tr>

<td>

<?php

$info_box_contents = array();

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

// 'text' => BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES

);

// new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, false, false);

 

$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_category2($first_element);

 

$info_box_contents = array();

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

'text' => $categories_string

);

new infoBox($info_box_contents);

?>

</td>

</tr>

<!-- categories_eof //-->

 

 

This files is doing what I want it to do with two exceptions.

 

1. It has the 'box look' and I still am not sure which part of the above code needs to be removed to get rid of the box....and keep just the sub-category links

 

2. Although I have eveything but the sub-categories commented out, the box seems to be the same height as the main categories.php

 

An example is here http://www.dartmouthimages.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=29'>http://www.dartmouthimages.com/catalog/pro...&products_id=29

 

If you can help me figure out what is wrong with this code, I would be very thankful.

 

Thanks!

[mattice]

Ah... I was looking at an older version of categories.php...

 

but this is what I meant anyway:

 

...

...

..

/* comment out start



$info_box_contents = array(); 

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

'text' => $categories_string 

); 

new infoBox($info_box_contents);



comment out end */ 



// now echo the string 

echo $categories_string;

?>

The idea is you manipulate the string to your likings while it is being build.

[sgtpepper]

Great!!! Thanks! That did the trick....one thing though. It seems to have built the whole nav. For example instead of

 

<--- Start of nav ---->

sub-category

<--- End of nav ---->

 

I have

 

<--- Start of nav ---->

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sub-category

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

<--- end of nav ---->

 

Almost like it is building places for the other links, even though I do not have them showing. Any ideas on how I can tighten that up? Thanks for the help!