Categories and subcats on home page

[sbhkma +]

I have 4.1.9 Designer and would like to include the categories AND their subcats on the home page. Is this possible? If so, how? Thanks!

[Lhotch +]

Show subcategories on homepage

[sbhkma +]

It seems this is for the developer version. I cannot edit the Go to includes>classes>kernel>Categories.php

[seymourjames +]

In home.tpl just take of the comments around the subcats as shown below. You can do this in designer. Then you can use some css to style a bit more.

<td valign="top">
{if $data[td]<>""}
<img src="{$data[td].image}" border="0" alt="{$data[td].name}" /> {$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}<br />
{/if}
 
</td>

[sbhkma +]

I'm using the code below and it's just showing the main cats. What am I missing? (Using Templatecodes if that makes a difference here. Didn't think it would)

<br />
<table class="main" width="100%">
		<tr>
			<th>{$smarty.const.LANG_BROWSE_CATEGORY}</th>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>		
		<table width="100%">
			{section name=tr loop=$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> 
						{$data[td].start_link}<strong>{$data[td].name}</strong></a>
						{if $data[td].total <> ''}
						({$data[td].total})
						{/if}
						<br />
						<!--{$data[td].subcats}-->
						{$data[td].description}
					{/if}
					 
					</td>
					{/section}
				</tr>
			{/section}
			</table>
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by sbhkma

I'm using the code below and it's just showing the main cats. What am I missing? (Using Templatecodes if that makes a difference here. Didn't think it would)

They arent diplaying because you havent followed the directions provided.

You have the smarty code to show subcats commented out.

<!--{$data[td].subcats}-->

[sbhkma +]

Actually, I got that part working. (I had copied the original code instead of my edit code. Sorry-been a very long week).
Just wondering now how to
Get it to not limit to 3
Create a line break for the sub cats
I have the designer version and can't edit categories.php

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by sbhkma

Actually, I got that part working. (I had copied the original code instead of my edit code. Sorry-been a very long week).
Just wondering now how to
Get it to not limit to 3
Create a line break for the sub cats
I have the designer version and can't edit categories.php

As stated in the links provided the limiting number of 3 is in one of the core PHP files so if you have the designer version these changes will be someything you are unlikely going to be able to make.

The alternative is to simply replace the smarty stuff in your home page template with a manually created and hard coded links to your categories.

[sbhkma +]

Thanks. I guess I'll have to go that route then. Appreciate your guidance.