Main Categories Module - More then 2 columns?

[twstdroot]

I'm using the main categories module found here http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ions,236/page,4 and would like to make it display more then 2 columns. Is there a way to do this?

[Guest]

in the includes/modules/main_categories.php file

 

Find the code:

 

if ($col> 1) {

 

Change to:

 

if ($col> 2) {

 

Or whatever number you would like for the number of columns. If you want 3 columns use "2", if you want 4 columns use "3", etc. HTH

[glenda]

Hello, I'm using the Main Categories Contribution...MANY thanks to Gustavo A. Barreto A. for writing this contrib! http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ions,236/page,4

 

I've got a lot of wasted space since some of my categories have many subcategories while others have none and the script puts two main categories per row.

 

Anyone know how I can fix this problem?

 

http://www.plazmaart.com/rocknroll/default.php (temp addy)

[twstdroot]

do you want to remove the sub-categories entirely from the 2 column layout? if so, you should be able to edit the modules PHP to remove the portion that builds the sub-categories pretty easily. I haven't looked at the code so I can't tell you exactly which lines.

[glenda]

I'm sorry I removed the dynamic Main Categories... that's just plain html on my default page. This is the result I get when I use the dynamic categories:

 

Category 1___________________

Subcat 1.1

Subcat 1.2

Subcat 1.3

 

Category 3___________________

_____________________________Subcat 4.1

_____________________________Subcat 4.2

_____________________________Subcat 4.3

_____________________________Subcat 4.4

_____________________________Subcat 4.5

 

Category 5___________________

 

So you can see the wasted space I'm talking about. Is there any way to get the categories/subcategories to display the way I have them on my default page?

 

Thank you!

[azer]

i have a changed code for the contribution given by some member and i dont know how to :

 

1. make 3 columns or more

2. change the size of the pictures to a defined size :

 

<?php 

/* 

 $Id: main_categories.php,v 1.0a 2002/08/01 10:37:00 Exp $ 



 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions 

 http://www.oscommerce.com/ 



 Copyright (c) 2002 Barreto 

 Gustavo Barreto <[email protected]> 

 http://www.barreto.net/ 



 Based on: all_categories.php Ver. 1.6 by Christian Lescuyer 



 History: 1.0 Creation 

     1.0a Correction: Extra Carriage Returns 



 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 

   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 . '_' : '')) 
; 

     } 

   } 

 } 



?> 

<!-- main_categories //--> 

<table width=100% border=0><tr> 

<?php 



////////// 

// 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')); 



 $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; 

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

  if ($categories['parent_id'] == 0) { 

   $cPath_new = tep_get_path($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') . '">' . $subcategories['categories_name'] . ',</a> ' . " "; 

               } // if 



    } // While Interno 

    $row++; 

//azer pr ligne modifiee category_big_image par categories_image  

echo '<td valign=top width=100><a href="' . tep_href_link (FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new, 'NONSSL') . '">' .  tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $categories['categories_image'], $categories['categories_name']) . '</a></td><td valign=top width=50% class="smallText"><font size=-1><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, $cPath_new, 'NONSSL') . '"><b>' . $categories['categories_name'] . '</b></a></font><br><font size=-2>' . $text_subcategories; 

     if ((($row / 2) == floor($row / 2))) { 

?> 

         </tr> 

  <tr> 

       <td colspan=6><img src="images/dot.gif" width=5 height=5></td> 

  </tr> 

<?php 

     }    

   } 

} 

?> 



</tr></table> 

<!-- main_categories_eof //-->

 

any advice will be good

:wink:

[azer]

self answer : for the first question i had to change

if ((($row / 2) == floor($row / 2))) {

 

by

if ((($row / 3) == floor($row / 3))) {