Getting this code for categories to work

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What version of 68 Classifieds are you running?
Example: V4.1.10 Developer

What template are you using?
Custom Made template (but already tested on default)


Please describe in detail the issue you are having:
I have been digging and trawling through the forums as I am wanting to achieve something in particular.
On my site I intend to have my main categories withs ub categories, as an example;

Household Furnishing
--Kitchen Appliances (*)
--Bedroom Furniture (*)
--Flooring (*)
--Others (*)

Cars, Motorbikes & Vehicles
--Cars (*)
--Motorbikes (*)
--Commercial Vehicles (*)

Now I want people to be able to choose and list items in the sub categories (marked with a * ) but not in he main categories. This I can do already by turning "Allow Ads" to No from yes.
But I want to list and paginate all entries from all its sub cats within the main category. The idea being is that people have to navigate back and forth less, every listing is shown easily but further drill down is possible (by navigating into a sub category).

I have found this thread How to show listings in sub-categories? Which gives me a sort of fix.

Eric mentioned to replace this code

$options['section']=$sec;

in the category.php file with this code

$arr_childs = array((int)$sec);
$Categories->get_ids($arr_childs);
$options['arr_childs']=$arr_childs;

This does indeed work in that it will take entries from the subcategories and list these nicely. If I then turn "Allow Ads" to No this code obviously stops working because that section is wrapped (as Eric mentioned) in an if statement

if($showlistings=="Y")

Eric suggested perhaps changing this to

if($showlistings=="Y" || $showlistings=="N")

Now this does again allow the output of listings BUT it shows every listing held int he database and not only those from the subcateogries within the current main category.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,