Browsing categories help

Discussion in 'Templates, HTML, CSS, and Design Help' started by Wes, Aug 13, 2014.

  1. Wes New Member

    I have a sub-category within some of my categories and while most people will want to narrow down a search by viewing the sub-category, I know a lot of people would also like to just browse the whole main category.

    It is a pain for the users to click each sub then go back and click another. Is there a way to click a "browse all" and see all the sub-categories ads together on one page?

    I don't want to remove my sub-categories.
    Thanks!
  2. Wes New Member

    I updated and slightly changed my question from what it was previously - if anyone knows the answer that would be awesome
  3. Mike-N-Tosh Owner

    You could try just changing, "$showlistings = 'N';" to "$showlistings = 'Y';" in the categories.php file.
  4. Wes New Member

    I went to default/categories/browse.tpl and the only code I saw matching $showlistings was:

    {if $custom <> ''}
    {include file=$custom}
    {elseif $showlistings=="Y" && $sTemplate==1}
    {include file="showlistings.tpl"}
    {elseif $showlistings=="Y" && $sTemplate==2}
    {include file="showlistings2.tpl"}
    {/if}

    and they are already set to "Y"

    Am I in the wrong place?
  5. Mike-N-Tosh Owner

    categories.php
  6. Wes New Member

    Sorry about that!

    Okay so what you said worked Yay
    I simply changed the "N" to "Y" and nothing else.
    However, when I look at my category is shows seven "Y" 's in text. It did not show that before.

    Any idea how to fix it?

    Thanks!

    Here is the link: http://selloffroad.com/category.php?cat=parts
  7. Wes New Member

    Also, changing that caused ALL the ads to show up below the browsing caterogies. Which is good, if I am on the main "Browse categories" page.

    What I am looking for is if I click "Browse Categories" then I should see the categories available and below I should be able to scroll through all the ads on the website.

    If I click "parts" then I should see only the ads in the sub-categories of "parts" to scroll through.

    Is there a way to do that?

    I hope that made sense.

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