Show subcategories on homepage

[redking]

I need to have subcategories shown on home page (like those in the picture)

[seymourjames]

You will need to do a few things. First of all you will need to edit your home.tpl page to show the sub categories. Remove the comments <!- and --> from this line below
<!--{$data[td].subcats}-->


As you do not want to show decriptions under the categories you can comment the description out so it looks like this

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

Then you will need to change your category image for a dot. Finally and beyond the scope here, you will need to adjust your css style sheet to get exactly what you are asking for.

[michael]

In v4.1.3

Go to includes>classes>kernel>Categories.php and insert a <br /> at the end of lines 98 and 103 (in place of   ).

While you're there you might also like to increase your subcategory limit at line 92. The default is just 3.

Good luck.

[Hey Me]

Originally Posted by michael

In v4.1.3

Go to includes>classes>kernel>Categories.php and insert a <br /> at the end of lines 98 and 103 (in place of   ).

While you're there you might also like to increase your subcategory limit at line 92. The default is just 3.

Good luck.

Hi, thanks I've just done that, but wondering how I could add <ul><li> instead of <br /> ?

The $limit=3 is in line 87 btw in my categories.php (4.1.4)

[bowers01]

Hi,
I just did this on my site.
But it ends up looking like this http://everythingsfree.org/image//images/212850cats.jpg
Can anyone see an easy way to fix this?
Cheers

[Hey Me]

For the dots just remove "LANG_DOT_DOT_DOT." from Categories.php

Donno about those blank areas in tables.

[Mike-N-Tosh]

Originally Posted by bowers01

Hi,
I just did this on my site.
But it ends up looking like this http://everythingsfree.org/image//images/212850cats.jpg
Can anyone see an easy way to fix this?
Cheers

The issue that you are seeing is that within the browse.tpl file the array data is being put into a table cell <td> with the parent category, then each subcategory. The nature of a data cell within a table is that it will always auto adjust the height to contain the data within it. In your picture you have a table with two columns and therefore when one <td> has several subcategories it will make the height larger and will leave white space in the adjacent <td> that does not have as many of the subcategories.

The only way that I know of to get around that is to rewrite the browse.tpl file to use CSS boxes to contain the data instead of a table. This will get complicated and you would have to be an advanced coder for smarty and CSS to accomplish this.

[michael]

Nick, the categories are stored in table cells so those gaps are unavoidable unless you rewrite that part of your page to use CSS instead.

[michael]

Seriously Mike, how the hell did you get your response in 15 minutes before mine! You weren't there when I started typing like 5 minutes ago!!

[Mike-N-Tosh]

Originally Posted by michael

Seriously Mike, how the hell did you get your response in 15 minutes before mine! You weren't there when I started typing like 5 minutes ago!!

I use "The Force"! You must not have the force or you would have felt my presence.