How to auto populate category in search

[naidu01]

I have added a category drop-down to my home page and all other pages. What I want now is the category drop-down to auto update when I click into a category and subcategory. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am running v4.0.9 hosted

[ombre]

Originally Posted by naidu01

I have added a category drop-down to my home page and all other pages.

I am running v4.0.9 hosted

How have you do that .. can i see the code ? Thanks.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by naidu01

I have added a category drop-down to my home page and all other pages. What I want now is the category drop-down to auto update when I click into a category and subcategory. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am running v4.0.9 hosted

If you notice when you click on a category the URL has "cat=catname" appended to it.

Then goto smarty.net and poke around a little bit you can see how you can use smarty to collect the cat variable from the URL.

Smarty

Then when you build your dropdown you can add smarty logic behind each option to say if the option value equals the cat value then set that option as selected.

<option value="MyCategory" {if $smarty.get.cat=="MyCategory"}selected{/if}>MyCategory</option>

[naidu01]

This worked perfect. Thank you