Show subcategories with icons in category page

Hi guys.

I am sorry if I did not got the right place to post and/or if my question has already been answered as I am new to OpenCart and most likely did not state the search query properly.

My goal is to have a main category, in which there would be subcategories and products. So what I need to achieve is when a visitor clicks on the main category, to show the subcategories with icons and only after selecting the chosen subcategory to view the products in it. The whole idea is that if you have lots of subcategories, the category menu becomes very long and inconvenient for users to scroll etc.

So to summarize:

Category 1
--Subcategory 1
--- Product 1
--- Product 2
--- Product 3

-- Subcategory 2
--- Product 1
--- Product 2
--- Product 3

-- Subcategory 3
--- Product 1
--- Product 2
--- Product 3


etc.

So now if someone clicks on Category one (parent category) and there are no products in it than the product field is empty. What I need is instead of seeing empty field to show the subcategories (Subcategory 1. Subcategory 2, Subcategory 3, and so on).

I hope I explained it well as it is my bad technical English that stops me from finding the right answer that might even be included in opencart 1.5.6 which I use for our store.

Well any help is highly appreciated and please do not judge too hard if the question have been answered or have a silly solving that I am not aware of

i believe this is what you want
http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=3907

Don't worry...the 1.5.5.x version should work on 1.5.6.x too....the only problem is if you have a custom theme

Xyph3r wrote:i believe this is what you want
http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=3907

Don't worry...the 1.5.5.x version should work on 1.5.6.x too....the only problem is if you have a custom theme

Thank you "Xyph3r"!! This works perfectly in ver2.2. YAY!!

Is it possible to make is display only in the category page and not in the sub-category?
At present, it display as an extra image in the sub-category and the products are listed below them. I would like this icon showup only in the Category, next to Refine Search.

Any thoughts??

Also, I tried changing the text "Refine Search" and it came up with a blank page

I removed the below code and it seems to work:

<div class="col-sm-2"><img src="<?php echo $thumb; ?>" alt="<?php echo $heading_title; ?>" title="<?php echo $heading_title; ?>" class="img-thumbnail" /></div>

beebee wrote:
Also, I tried changing the text "Refine Search" and it came up with a blank page

You can change the text in catalog/language/YOUR_LANGUAGE/product/category.php

cyclops12 wrote:

beebee wrote:
Also, I tried changing the text "Refine Search" and it came up with a blank page

You can change the text in catalog/language/YOUR_LANGUAGE/product/category.php

Thanks for replying cyclops12!
I'm sorry I didn't mention the path earlier. I had tried changing it in catalog/language/YOUR_LANGUAGE/product/category.php and it gave a blank page, and it's still the same.

What did you change in the language file ?

You should have

cyclops12 wrote:What did you change in the language file ?

You should have

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$_['text_refine']       = 'Refine Search';

Exactly!! I see this.
Now, when I change 'Refine Search' to let's say 'ABC' or 'XYZ' it gives me a blank page.
Error log shows:

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 's' (T_STRING) in /catalog/language/en-gb/product/category.php on line 3

So, I removed the text and left it blank $_['text_refine'] = '';. This works!

Hi,

You can simply change code to below code : Can you please let us know which code you are trying to add in language file which is generating blank page ?