cant change the order of my menu categories...

[Solan]

Before i could change my categorie order from:

 

Movies

Books

Newspapers

 

to

 

Newspappers

Books

Movies

 

 

What is wrong why cant i do that anymoore?

 

I really need to manage the orders of my catagories...

 

Thanks in advance! :)

[Guest]

Edit the category and change the sort order. Lowest sort number is placed first

 

 

 

 

Chris

[Solan]

Edit the category and change the sort order. Lowest sort number is placed first

 

 

 

 

Chris

 

Thanks Chris but i cant do so, the category sort order icon is missing.. its only there if i add a whole new category :(

 

Something wrong in the code but i dont know where to look or how it should look like in the files..

[♥ecartz]

It's this section of code in a standard admin/categories.php file (around lines 894-911):

	  case 'edit_category':
	$heading[] = array('text' => '<b>' . TEXT_INFO_HEADING_EDIT_CATEGORY . '</b>');

	$contents = array('form' => tep_draw_form('categories', FILENAME_CATEGORIES, 'action=update_category&cPath=' . $cPath, 'post', 'enctype="multipart/form-data"') . tep_draw_hidden_field('categories_id', $cInfo->categories_id));
	$contents[] = array('text' => TEXT_EDIT_INTRO);

	$category_inputs_string = '';
	$languages = tep_get_languages();
	for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($languages); $i < $n; $i++) {
	  $category_inputs_string .= '<br>' . tep_image(DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES . $languages[$i]['directory'] . '/images/' . $languages[$i]['image'], $languages[$i]['name']) . ' ' . tep_draw_input_field('categories_name[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', tep_get_category_name($cInfo->categories_id, $languages[$i]['id']));
	}

	$contents[] = array('text' => '<br>' . TEXT_EDIT_CATEGORIES_NAME . $category_inputs_string);
	$contents[] = array('text' => '<br>' . tep_image(DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES . $cInfo->categories_image, $cInfo->categories_name) . '<br>' . DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES . '<br><b>' . $cInfo->categories_image . '</b>');
	$contents[] = array('text' => '<br>' . TEXT_EDIT_CATEGORIES_IMAGE . '<br>' . tep_draw_file_field('categories_image'));
	$contents[] = array('text' => '<br>' . TEXT_EDIT_SORT_ORDER . '<br>' . tep_draw_input_field('sort_order', $cInfo->sort_order, 'size="2"'));
	$contents[] = array('align' => 'center', 'text' => '<br>' . tep_image_submit('button_save.gif', IMAGE_SAVE) . ' <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_CATEGORIES, 'cPath=' . $cPath . '&cID=' . $cInfo->categories_id) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_cancel.gif', IMAGE_CANCEL) . '</a>');
	break;

Note the line that says TEXT_EDIT_SORT_ORDER.

[Patty]

I think there's a but on the code, but I don't know how to fix it. Never noticed it before until a client asked about it today.

 

By default, categories are sorted alphabetically. He wanted to change the order, so he used the numbers to order them. But then he changed this mind and wanted to go back to alphabetical, but even if he deletes the number on the sort order field, there will be a zero instead and that category won't go back in order, being placed at the bottom.

 

How can I fix this? A work around would be to use 0 for all categories, but he has tons of them and that would be too much work, plus it wouldn't be the correct way to do it.

 

Can anybody help??