Category Layout

[ezykiwi]

Is it possible to change the way that the categories display , such as setting it up as a addon/block ... so that when you upgrade you can still have it in your template settings and not have to adjust the PHP in category.class.php

Im happy to play around with it, just not sure how to set it up so that it hooks or whatever the technical name for it is

Cheers
Ezy

[chunguens]

I don´t know if it help but in indexu administration at category edition you have a field called "Content" when you can add html code to each category.

[ezykiwi]

Cheers mate, yeh its more around the code that generates how it displays, Ive altered it in that file before, however it makes it hard when you upgrade... so was wondering if we can set it up so the display code is seperate

[pungky]

Hi can you tell me what display code you refer in category.class.php?

[ezykiwi]

basically anything inside the table of categories.... like the code below, It would be cool to be able to the code for the table and cells etc externally from that php....


if ($num_cats != 0) {
$category = $this->header;
$category .= "<table width=\"$this->cat_table_width\" cellspacing=\"$this->cat_cellspacing\">\n";
$category .= "<tr>";

$st_min = floor($num_cats / $this->number_of_columns);
$st_max = ceil($num_cats / $this->number_of_columns);
$st_burst = $num_cats % $this->number_of_columns;

$k = 0;
while ($k < $this->number_of_columns) {
$width = 100 / $this->number_of_columns;
$category .= "<td width=\"$width" . "%\" valign=\"top\">\n";

[ezykiwi]

Any thoughts on how this can be done by the coders?

If i have to ill go through and do it myself but just thought it would make more sense to be done by the coders so that everyone can have the feature

[dody]

At the moment I have no better idea how to make it more simple. Category listing could be so simple or become complex. Everyone have different things in mind.

You need to play with function Display() in category.class.php

In future release I will allow designer to overwrite this function inside template. Bsically indexu will check a file, lets called 'komet/category_list.php', if the file is exist, it will use function Display() in this file, otherwise use in /lib/category.class.php

[dody]

You still need basic knowledge of php