How to display categories in the left column

[spark]

Hi,

A quick newbie question (I'm loving 68classifieds so far!) - has anyone placed the categories in the left hand column? I'd like to do this so that the categories are always visible for the user. Ideally I'm wanting to change the code into a seo friendly <ul><li> setup, with a possibility or nesting the sub categories and displaying them too if required.

Has anyone of you already done such a thing? Is there an example of the code that I could look at just so I'm not reinventing the wheel?

Many thanks,

Konrad

[suzkaw]

Hi,

You should be able to use this:

{categories_parent}
<ul>
{foreach from=$pcat item=entry}
<li>{$entry.link}</li>
{/foreach}
</ul>

Please note that this will only pull the parent categories.

[spark]

Thanks, that did the trick! I have now been trying based on this code to place the subcategories in there as well but have been getting error messages (I'm not a php coder!).

I would like the sub categories only to appear nested in the main categories menu when on the actual parent page - is this possible?

Thanks!

Konrad

[suzkaw]

I am really not sure how difficult it would be. However the file this pulls from is includes/classes/smarty/plugins/function.categories_parent.php

You may want to look in that to see how it is generated.

[spark]

Thanks for your help - however, this si way beyond my php capabilities - I think I'll leave it for now but of course if anyone else wants to look at it then that would be really appreciated!

Thanks again,

Konrad