Bulleting or making the catagory list more readabl

[bigbadshoppingcarts]

hi all ive recently setup my cart and all is running well, slowly adding to my products and catagories but now i am finding that the catagory list on the left is getting a bit full and unreadable aswell as not being easy to understand

 

can anyone give idead of maybe bulliting or adding arrows to each catagory or even a new way to make this look better, or even a box around each catagory.

 

to see what i am meaning visit the site at www.abbeycomputer.net/catalog

 

thanks for any help in advace

[Guest]

This is what I did to my site to add bullets to my categories and make it more readable, you can see my page at www.nutrition-u-trust.net/index.php. It is not completed at this time but will be shortly hopefully.

 

I edited catalog/includes/boxes/categories.php

 

I first added this comment to get the bullets.(very near the top)

 

(first find the below statement)

 

function tep_show_category($counter) {

global $tree, $categories_string, $cPath_array;

 

(right under the above statement add this)

 

$categories_string .= '<li>';

 

(I then found this statement)

 

if (isset($cPath_array) && in_array($counter, $cPath_array)) {

$categories_string .= '<b>';

}

 

-> I added a * right after the <br> so it should say ='<b>*';

 

(then I added a * in the same place in this statement)

 

if (isset($cPath_array) && in_array($counter, $cPath_array)) {

$categories_string .= '</b>';

}

-> so it reads ='</b>*;

 

(I also put 2 extra   in this statement)

 

for ($i=0; $i<$tree[$counter]['level']; $i++) {

$categories_string .= "  ";

}

 

-> so it reads .= "    ";

 

cheers all...

 

P.S. you may want to make your left_column boxes wider when you do this.

[Guest]

O.K. did a little research and found a way to add the images can not take full credit though, you will find the other code(s) here

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=65926