[metro theme] adding dropdown for one category only

[cmaltais]

Hi all,

I'm hoping to get help with adding a dropdown menu with subcategories for ONE specific category. This would be added to the left hand column in search.php. TIA

I tried the code below but it didn't work:

<?php  while(osc_has_categories()) { ?>
    <?php if(osc_category_id() === 98): ?>
        <?php if(osc_count_subcategories() > 0) { ?>
        <ul>
            <?php while(osc_has_subcategories()) { ?>
            <li>
            <strong><a href="<?php echo osc_search_category_url() ?>"><?php echo osc_category_name(); ?></a></strong></label>
            </li>
            <?php } ?>
        </ul>
        <?php } ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
<?php } ?>

[teseo]

Hi,

Try this way:

Code: [Select]

<?php $current_categories = __get('categories');
View::newInstance()->_exportVariableToView('categories', Category::newInstance()->toSubTree(98));
while(osc_has_categories()) { ?>
    <?php if(osc_category_id() === 98) { ?>
        <?php if(osc_count_subcategories() > 0) { ?>
            <ul>
                <?php while(osc_has_subcategories()) { ?>
                    <li>
                        <strong><a href="<?php echo osc_search_category_url() ?>"><?php echo osc_category_name(); ?></a></strong></label>
                    </li>
                <?php } ?>
            </ul>
        <?php } ?>
    <?php } ?>
<?php }
View::newInstance()->_exportVariableToView('categories', $current_categories); ?>

Regards

[cmaltais]

Thanks very much, but this is still not generating any results for me. I'm wondering if there are issues because I am using metro theme and not something more common. I'll work on finding the discrepancies but if you have any other possible solutions I would love to see them. Thanks again!

[teseo]

It was your base code, as you wrote it only sub-subcategories (providing "98" be a root category) would be shown. This should give you subcategories and sub-subcategories:

Code: [Select]

<?php $current_categories = __get('categories');
View::newInstance()->_exportVariableToView('categories', Category::newInstance()->toSubTree(98));

while(osc_has_categories()) { ?>
    <ul>
        <li>
            <strong><a href="<?php echo osc_search_category_url() ?>"><?php echo osc_category_name(); ?></a></strong></label>
        </li>
        <?php if(osc_count_subcategories() > 0) { ?>
                <?php while(osc_has_subcategories()) { ?>
                    <li style="padding-left: 10px;">
                        <strong><a href="<?php echo osc_search_category_url() ?>"><?php echo osc_category_name(); ?></a></strong></label>
                    </li>
                <?php } ?>
        <?php } ?>
    </ul>
<?php }
View::newInstance()->_exportVariableToView('categories', $current_categories); ?>

Regards

[cmaltais]

Got it! Thanks very much!