category text color / page location

[centinel3]

I would like to know where the page location is for the individual category pages so I can add an RSS icon/Feed. Any help would be appreciated.

Also, where is the style that controls the category text in the main body? I have looked through the css page and didn't see anything.

Thank you for your help.
chris

[Lhotch]

FYI, when asking for specific help you should give specific details. For example what version of the software you are using and what template you are using should stated.

Originally Posted by centinel3

I would like to know where the page location is for the individual category pages so I can add an RSS icon/Feed. Any help would be appreciated.

Im dont know if I understand what you are looking for here. What do you mean by page location?

you can append debug=1 to the URL for the page you are viewing on your site to see the variables in use. The header/footer/nav portion of the page is controlled by the layout.tpl template. The guts or body of the page are handled by different templates and the template name is held in the $body variable. So if you append debug=1 to the URL when you view a page you can see the template being used by the body of that page.

If thats not what your looking for you are going to have to be more specific.

Originally Posted by centinel3

Also, where is the style that controls the category text in the main body? I have looked through the css page and didn't see anything.

Thank you for your help.
chris

The best thing to do here is use the firefox browser with the firebug plugin. It will allow you to right click on any section of any web site you are viewing and from the popup menu select "inspect element". and it will show you the exact HTML element used to create it and the specific CSS that controls it.

[centinel3]

version4.0.6 I believe. with the search friendly url mod.

Thank you for your help. The firefox trick is great!!!

The question that I have is in regards to the debug=1. I appended the url with a /debug=1 and got an error. What am I doing wrong? for example:

I have tried both ways.
http://closeoutfloorsamples.com/cate...s.html/debug=1
http://closeoutfloorsamples.com/cate...es.htmldebug=1


chris

[Lhotch]

The way you append debug=1 to the URL depends on if there are urrently any variables already attached.

For example if you are viewing index.php you would append debug=1 like this....

index.php?debug=1

if you are viewing a URL on your site that already has a value appended you use an ampersand instead of a question mark....

category.php?cat=9&debug=1

Keep in mind that the SEO mod does prevent this feature from working on some pages.

[centinel3]

I have turned off the search friendly mod, debugged the page and viewed the information. I still don't see what I'm looking for. My goal is to put an RSS image on the main page of the categories. (e.g. when a user clicks furniture and the body changes to the subs of furniture and a list, I would like to put the rss image inline with the breadcrumbs at the top. Where would I find out where / how to incorporate this.

Chris

I appreciate all your help. I feel like an idiot not being able to find some of this info on my own.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by centinel3

I have turned off the search friendly mod, debugged the page and viewed the information. I still don't see what I'm looking for. My goal is to put an RSS image on the main page of the categories. (e.g. when a user clicks furniture and the body changes to the subs of furniture and a list, I would like to put the rss image inline with the breadcrumbs at the top. Where would I find out where / how to incorporate this.

Chris

I appreciate all your help. I feel like an idiot not being able to find some of this info on my own.

As I mentioned above the BODY of your site is a different template depending on the page you are looking at and the name of the template in use on any given page is stored in the smarty variabl $body.

So......if you look at the debug window for the variable $body it will show you the template that is being used as the body of the page.

If you click on one of your categories and append debug=1 and look at the popup debug window you will probably se that the value of the $body variable is categories/browse.tpl so that would be the template you want to edit.

[centinel3]

I have found the browse.tpl. now it's a matter of figuring out how to put the RSS image and feed so that it is unique per category. I will post a new thread with this question.

Thank you again for all your help. This is much appreciated.

chris