How to remove the link from a top level category.

[betty]

Could someone pleeeease help me! I only want the sub-categories in my left column to be links. I don't want the top level categories to be links. I've been searching all the forum/contributions/documentation for hours and can't find an answer, so I've come back to beg again. Could someone please please please help?

 

Betty

[betty]

Please?

[Virtual1]

why not make the sub categories the categories?

 

If you dont want categories to show then arent the subs the categories?

 

you follow your own logic here?

[betty]

Hi Kevin,

 

Thanks for that - the only thing was the two lists of subcategories all had to have the same names. Thanks very much for replying though. Luckily after spending a day trying to do it yesterday I managed to get hold of a friend of mine who knows php and he did it in 2 minutes!

 

Betty

[betty]

Hi again,

 

Just thought I'd better actually put the solution up here in case any other poor sod's searching for this in the future. My site is at:

 

http://www.cukoo.co.uk/catalog/index.php

 

and here's the code that makes my catalogue menu look the way it does (I got the bulk of it from a contribution):

 

<?php
/*
 $Id: all_categories.php,v 1.6 2002/04/22 20:34:00 clescuyer Exp $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com/

 Copyright (c) 2002 Go?lette 
 Christian Lescuyer <cl@goelette.net>
 http://www.goelette.net/
 http://oscommerce.goelette.net/
 
 History: 1.1 Creation
          1.2 Modified query for compatibility with older databases
          1.3 Query in 1.2 was wrong for older databases
          1.4 SHOW_COUNTS test corrected
          1.5 Added COMPACT_CATEGORIES option to display all sub-categories on one line
          1.6 Removed COMPACT_CATEGORIES option
              Corrected the cpath generation
              Bold categories "path" to selected category, an idea from Peter F?rsicht

 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++)
       $categories_string .=  '';
     if ($level != 1)
  $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 . $cid . '_' : ''));
     }
   }
 if ($level == 1)
	 $categories_string .= '<br>';
 }
?>


<!-- all_categories //-->
         <tr>
           <td valign="top">
	 <br>
<?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'));

 $query = "select c.categories_id, cd.categories_name, c.parent_id
           from " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd
           where c.categories_id = cd.categories_id";
// 1.3 Can't have 'where' in an if statement!
 if ($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);

// Stuff in an array
 while ($categories = tep_db_fetch_array($categories_query))  {
   $foo[$categories['categories_id']] = array('name' => $categories['categories_name'], 'parent' => $categories['parent_id']);
 }

// Initiate tree traverse
 $categories_string = '';
 preorder(0, 0, $foo, '');

//////////
// Display box contents
//////////
 $info_box_contents = array();
 $info_box_contents[] = array('align' => 'left', 'text'  => $categories_string);
 new index($info_box_contents);
?>
           </td>
         </tr>
<!-- all_categories_eof //-->

 

In particular, the bit below stops the top categories being links:

 

 if ($level != 1)
 $categories_string .= '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'cPath=' . $cpath . $cid) . '">';

 

and this bit put a space between the two main categories:

 

  if ($level == 1)
	 $categories_string .= '<br>';

 

Hope this is helpful to someone!

 

Betty