$cat_path_link_style

[echo@]

In setting.php i have set

$cat_path_link_style = "color: #0099CC";

cleared the template cache and this is what I get

So I check the rendered source code and subcats are not getting the styling infomation

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I must be missing something

[Bruceper]

$cat_link_style <- changes colour of root category on index page
$cat_path_link_style <- changes colour of Top on browse pages
$subcat_link_style <- changes colour of subcats on index page

Why it works like that I have no idea. I can only assume it's to show users the path back to root.

Where would you change the rest of the path? You guessed it, category.class.php

[echo@]

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I understand,

What im trying to acomplish is to set the #0099CC colour to the entire category path "bread crumbs".

I have been looking in the category.class.php, i guessed it was in there somewhere.

im looking arround line 229

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and figured $cat_path_link_style would set the entire path style but like you say its for styling TOP.

So within the

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section im looking for the code that generates the subcategory links.

I have had a good look around honest

[Bruceper]

line 562

$category .= "<a href=\"$sub_url\" style=\"$this->subcat_link_style\" name=\"cat_$sub_id\">$sub_name</a>, ";

And I think this is where it is. But if you change subcat_link_style it doesn't change it.

[Bruceper]

Perhaps this is a bug, I'll ask Dody to look into it tonight since I can't see what we are looking for.

[echo@]

I manually put the style in like so

"<a href=\"{$href}\" name=\"cat_$cat\" style=\"color: #0099CC\">";

and it worked after i cleared the template cache, im sure i tried this , must of missed clearing the template cache.

So now im wondering why the $cat_path_link_style varible is in there in the first place.

Maybe putting some more descriptive comments in the file could help future users

Well thank you yet again

[echo@]

Bruce, im having some trouble , i thought i was out the woods but no.

ok so i managed to get the whole of the category_path in the correct colour, so i left the post assuming this was the way to style category_path.

I then wanted to increase the font size, this worked for the $cat_path_link_style (TOP) but not for the rest of the link "subcats"

anyway cut a long story short i have defaulted all the style settings in the 2 files and checked all css files and guess what , the subcat part of the url stays 0099CC. but the TOP part has defaulted back to black.

I thought it may be a bug with clearing all the template cache so i manually
did this

So after a few hours I have found the css styless within the indexu database. inside table idx_category_path

It seems if you maunally set the css style in the php (instead of using the var $cat_path_link_style) the styles are stored in the database and it ignores any changes after that.

[echo@]

I managed to get round it by dumping and dropping the idx_category_path table.

I then replaced the styling with the styling i wanted and then created the table again in SQLquery

[Bruceper]

to flush the idx_category_path all you should need to do is update the category path.

And perhaps you've found the clue to use $subcat_link_style. If you change that and then update category path does it do what you want?

[esm]

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the category path has not been built dynamically since v3.2 (prior to that is was built dynamically which caused category-intensive pages to sometimes time out).

once you change the $cat_path_link_style, rebuild the category path and all should display using the new style.


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[esm]

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$subcat_link_style affects only the subcats (if displayed) on the index page, not the "breadcrumbs" path at the top of the page.

the $subcat_link_style would affect the subcats in the browse.php file if it had been added.


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[echo@]

How much does the training course cost ...

[Bruceper]

999.99 per day, minimum three weeks plus board and room

[echo@]

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What happens if you feel like part of the furniture

[Bruceper]

lol you might just get sat on