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Hi guys,

I have seen some stores with category menus with hover functions etc.
Lets say that I want a menu which has each link in separeate "cells"

I want to be able to set a backgound color for the cells, and color for mouse over the cells.
I would also be able to have different styles for category and sub-category.
Is that an easy thing to do in the css menu?:)

Best regards

Yep I've already done this... Check out www.alreadymade.com - It's called the dynamic category menu. You can choose different setups.

just purchased and installed this as said but i get this error:

Error: Table 'danny_macdealer.category' doesn't exist
Error No: 1146
SELECT * FROM category c LEFT JOIN category_description cd ON (c.category_id = cd.category_id) ORDER BY c.sort_order


help! lol

looks like a database problem.

Looks more like a database prefixing issue. Are prefixes supported (or required) by this mod?

Yeah, sorry, looks like it's a db prefix issue... I'll add prefix support today. Download it again tonight - there will be a new zip.

not working for me too..) i would like an update, bought original..tadelisz (AT) gmaildotcom

woohoo an email addy! Let the spambots attack!

Yep, I've ported this module for 1.3.2 now and uploaded a new zip file. Let me know on www.alreadymade.com if you can't access the new file and I'll send it to you via email.

Note. don't post your email address here... you can contact me direct on the site or PM - it's not worth the spam

sorry for posting e-mail..:/

karlpers wrote:Hi guys,

I have seen some stores with category menus with hover functions etc.
Lets say that I want a menu which has each link in separeate "cells"

I want to be able to set a backgound color for the cells, and color for mouse over the cells.
I would also be able to have different styles for category and sub-category.
Is that an easy thing to do in the css menu?:)

Best regards

Nice template from Readyman and everything's done for you, but yes it's easy to do with CSS.

Find "catagory" & "hover" in the CSS file, and give the hover a background colour.

With Readyman's stylesheet.css file you'll find it already done for you. Just change the colour to suit. Change the colour by changing the number after the word "background". The following chart shows the numbers you need, the hexidecimal colour codes http://html-color-codes.com/. You can even swap in background images which can be cool.

Remember to make a copy of anything before you change anything, as you may make a mistake.

Cheers

Adam

It's not all in the CSS and it's not just a template change though.
You need to change the category output so that you have the full list of categories. Only then can you style it into CSS or use jquery to build menus etc. At the moment, you only have one category appearing after you click it.
Also, you need to dynamically set the current category, so that you can style it with a class style.

nice discussion........ thanks .........

hi,

is the jquery expanding menu attached to this ye filet? http://alreadymade.com/shop/index.php?r ... duct_id=42

id love drop menu where the subheadings are hidden until you click on a main heading.

hi readyman

i tried to install your module on 1.34 and it doesnt work, it gives me this when i load my website:

Error: Could not load template /home/vol11/byethost18.com/b18_4413706/htdocs/store/catalog/view/theme/mysitemodule/category.tpl!


help! what do i do?


also do you have the accordion plugin yet?

Hi

I am getting a weird error. All the categories are duplicated and it owerflows the box. The next box is affected too. See image below.



Any help?
Vimal.

Hi Vimal, Looks like it could be a language issue. I'll have a look, I think I've already fixed this issue before.

Thanks readyman! I really like the category box that you have made. Look forward to hearing from you.

menu category for 1.4.0 solved..
public function fetchCategories(){
$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM category c LEFT JOIN category_description cd ON (c.category_id = cd.category_id) WHERE cd.language_id = '" . (int)$this->config->get('config_language_id') . "' ORDER BY c.sort_order");

return $query->rows;
}

public function fetchCategory($category_id = 0){
$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM category c LEFT JOIN category_description cd ON (c.category_id = cd.category_id) WHERE c.parent_id = '" . (int)$category_id . "' AND cd.language_id = '" . (int)$this->config->get('config_language_id') . "' ORDER BY c.sort_order");

return $query->rows;
}


just modify those lines on model->catalog->catagory.php

enjoy

Yes, jamial, that code is straight out of the dynamic categories module & yes it works if you insert the same code into your version 1.4.0. - go get the full download if you also want the actual module code that calls these functions from the model, as well as css samples already made for you at alreadymade.com