Dont show categories with no listings?

[sunshinemike]

Is there any way I can prevent categories/sub-categories from being shown if there is no listing in them?

I have a site where there are 1200 categories but I only have listings in about 300 of them. It looks really bad to see so many categories with (0) after the title!

Thanks

Mike

[seymourjames]

First of all why not turn the (0) off so it does not show. Then in showlistings when someone clicks through and the category is empty show the message - Do you want to be the first to place your advert here or show them a set of horzontal random listings or present them another search. Like here

Search Results

It is the same principle to adapt showlistings for empty searches and empty categories. It is also SEO smart to avoid duplicate content on different URLs.

Secondly but I would not bother, you may be able to test if the category is empty and if it is then don't show it. Use debug to find the variable (if it is available to the browse and home pages for example) and test within this part of code before echoing.

{section name=tr loop=$data step=$cols}
<tr>
{section name=td start=$smarty.section.tr.index loop=$smarty.section.tr.index+$cols}
<td>
{if $data[td]<>""}
<img src="{$data[td].image}" alt="{$data[td].name}" /> {$data[td].start_link|replace:'>':" title=\"`$data[td].name`\" rel='nofollow'>"}<strong>{$data[td].name}</strong></a>
{if $data[td].total <> ''}
({$data[td].total})
{/if}
{/if}
 
</td>
{/section}
</tr>
{/section}

[Eric Barnes]

Maybe something like {if $data[td].total > 0} //show the category {/if}

[Bronxgodzilla]

David I think your code is SEO brilliant and is a model to put an <IF> statement to anything -- and Eric, your simplicity is mystically eloquent. Uhhhh, any of you boys care to share *where* your code goes, for us newbies?

Thanks really,
Barry

[Eric Barnes]

Sorry for not including that. Try this. Open home.tpl and you should see something like this:

{if $data[td]<>""}

Replace it with:

{if $data[td]<>"" && $data[td].total > 0}