Default Category Image Removal

[CEC]

How do you go about removing the default category image?

I removed

$cat_default_image = $site_url.'/themes/'.$active_theme.'/images/star.png';

from settings.php. Strangely, however, the image remained in several category pages.

Any help is appreciated.

[FSGDAG]

Admin Panel -> Categories -> Edit Categories. You can set each category to have its own unique image, or all the images to be the same.

[CEC]

okay, but i have thousands of categories. isn't there one place in the code where the image can be removed?

btw, i am not an comfortable with sql ... so a database command may be beyond me.

[FSGDAG]

Goto the Admin Panel -> Database -> Find and Replace

Select Table = idx_category
Select Field = image
Find What = folder.gif ( I think this is the default but whatever the file name currently is enter it here )
Replace With = <your_new_image_name>.gif ( it doesn't have to be gif )

Let me know if that helps

[xmith]

Another idea (I have not tested this) is to replace the file by another one with same name with 1x1 pixel dimension.

[Bruceper]

FSGDAG showed the proper way to replace the image name. But yes, the image could be replaced by a transparent image of a 1x1px image of the same colour background as the page.

[CEC]

okay. so there is no way to remove altogether the image reference? just workarounds to hide.

[FSGDAG]

okay. so there is no way to remove altogether the image reference? just workarounds to hide.

Yes... The method I stated with "Find and Replace" will allow you to change the image file name for ALL of your categories at one time.

The other suggestion XSmith makes about having a transparent image that is a 1x1px is good if you want no image. Just create it as the same filename ( folder.gif ) and replace the current file thats there.

[Bruceper]

You can remove the image if you want to edit the code.

Edit /lib/category.class.php

[CEC]

thanks for the help.

[Bruceper]

Most users are afraid of editing code, so the solutions we typically offer are the easy ones.