Category Jump Hack/Mod

[esm]

Build the select statement yourself. Go to the search links screen in the admin control panel. Use your browser to view the page source and you will see all your categories already built in a select statement.

Copy and paste them between the following:

<!-- dropdown -->
<form action="browse.php" method="POST">
<select name=cat>
...select statements go here
...select statements go here
...select statements go here
...select statements go here
<input type="submit" value="Go!">
</form>

for example, in the Hack/MODs forum:

<!-- dropdown -->
<form action="browse.php" method="POST">
<select name=cat>
<option value='1'>Add-On's</option>
<option value='2'>Admin Tools</option>
<option value='3'>Security</option>
<option value='4'>Syndication</option>
<option value='5'>Templates</option>
<option value='6'>Miscellaneous</option>
<option value='7'>Connecticut </option>
<input type="submit" value="Go!">
</form>

If you just paste it in from the link search screen, it will be easy

I wanted to add

<option value='---'>---</option>

But that will give you an error ( since the $cat varible is empty ) so I just left it out. Maybe someone can take the time to figure it out.

Then just paste all of the code into your browse.html where ever you want it to appear.

[tjoerg]

Hello esm,

why don't you just call the function DisplayCategoryListBox?

paste this lines into your index.php or browse.php

  // generate category quick select
  
  $category_obj = new clsCategory;
  $category_obj->InitDB($dbServer,$dbHostname,$dbUsername,$dbPassword,$dbName);
  $category_obj->table_name = "idx_category";
  $category_obj->separator = $category_separator;
  $quickselect = $category_obj->DisplayCategoryListBox(-1);

the quickselect has to be passed forward to the template file by adding it to the list of variables e.g.

DisplayTemplate($theme_path."header.html","\$title,\$cat,\$quickselect");

finaly edit your template file wÃ*th the form tags:

<form action="browse.php?cat=<%cat%>" method="get">
<%quickselect%> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="go" border="0"></form>

greets

Joerg

[esm]

now why didn't I think of that!

I'll give that a try...

Just a couple of things:

• Should the method be POST or GET? ( showing my ignorance here ).
• If you have a concern about server resources, doing it manually does eliminate the query to the database and therefore use less server resources.

I like it!

[tjoerg]

...yes, a better form method is POST (doesn't show up in url). I've done that with an editor and didn't change the standard method.

To get rid of the empy field which causes an error edit category.class.php about line 792 and set a value and text:

else $category_list .= "<OPTION VALUE='0'>home</OPTION>";

greets

Joerg

[esm]

here you go Frank...

Either will work ( well, I didn't test what tjoerg did but it should work )

Personally, I still like the "static" approach...

[manuel_pr]

A variation to this can be made to make the jump for adding in a specific main category. For example, I have the jump box in the add_form template. I added this in the template for the dropbox:

<FORM method="post" action="add.php?cat="value">
<INPUT type="hidden" name="pflag" value="add">

cat="value" is the value set in <option value=. The only thing is that when it jumps again to the add form, though it shows the correct category selection, a message shows requiring the title of the site. A minor annoyance. Maybe someone could fix this.

Manuel