CATEGORIES on home page. How to?

[ebee +]

This may be a silly question but I need to display categories (browse) on home page just below database content. Any easy way to achieve this? I am using Sigma Green template. I tried use of "include" function but may be I was not doing it right hence I had no success. Thanks!

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Why not copy the code from the default home.tpl page file into your current template home.tpl file?

[ebee +]

Originally Posted by Mike-N-Tosh

Why not copy the code from the default home.tpl page file into your current template home.tpl file?

Could you kindly let us know paths for both files please? Thanks.

[seymourjames +]

Open the home.tpl file within each of the Sigma template folders you are using as Mike says and copy the relevant code from the home.tpl file which sits in the default template. I am not sure how this can be described more simply. All individual template folders are contained within the templates folder. In other words put this into your sigma template home.tpl file:

PHP Code:

<table class="main" width="100%">
        <tr>
            <td>
            
            <table width="100%">
            {section name=tr loop=$data step=$cols}
                <tr>
                    {section name=td start=$smarty.section.tr.index loop=$smarty.section.tr.index+$cols}
                    <td valign="top">
                    {if $data[td]<>""}
                        {$data[td].start_link}<img src="{$data[td].image}" border="0" alt="{$data[td].name}" /></a>&nbsp;
                        {$data[td].start_link}<strong>{$data[td].name}</strong></a>
                        {if $data[td].total <> ''}
                        ({$data[td].total})
                        {/if}
                        <br />
                        <!--{$data[td].subcats}-->
                        {$data[td].description}
                    {/if}
                    &nbsp;
                    </td>
                    {/section}
                </tr>
            {/section}
            </table>
            
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table> 


[ebee +]

Originally Posted by seymourjames

Open the home.tpl file within each of the Sigma template folders you are using as Mike says and copy the relevant code from the home.tpl file which sits in the default template. I am not sure how this can be described more simply. All individual template folders are contained within the templates folder. In other words put this into your sigma template home.tpl file:

Thanks a lot it works now as I expected. I kind of knew where to paste code but wasn't sure where to copy it from. Now I have also added WEB DEVELOPER add-on in Firefox so that helps a bit as well.
best regards

[seymourjames +]

No problem. You should take a look at the online 68C documentation to understand how templates work.