Hi David,
The new hierarchical categories are really useful, but with large numbers of categories can be difficult for the user.
To get around this problem I just added a single number in front of each category name, like this
1 Catname
1 Subname
2 Subname
3 Subname
2 Catname
1 Subname
This does work, but doesn't look great and can cause unexpected results on some of the API calls as the number is passed in there too.
Is there a way to add a sequence number to the admin/db so that I could order the categories without having to rely on visible numbers?
Thanks
Dave
Hi David,
Thanks David it worked like a dream, only issue I had is not all of the categories are number prefixed so I changed the code in tapestry.php to only drop the first word if it prefixed with a number. No PHP expert so probably a better way of doing it, but it works:
function tapestry_displayCategory($category)
{
if (ctype_digit($category[0])) {
$words = explode(" ",$category);
array_shift($words);
return implode(" ",$words);
}
else {
return $category;
}
}Cheers
Dave
Looks fine, Dave!
If you wanted to extend the numerical checking to the whole first "word", you could use something like;
function tapestry_displayCategory($category)
{
$words = explode(" ",$category);
if (is_numeric($words[0]))
{
array_shift($words);
return implode(" ",$words);
}
else
{
return $category;
}
}Cheers,
David.
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Hello Dave,
A number of users have mentioned this so I am going to include category sequencing in the next distribution. In the mean time, if using a numerical prefix to force the order this can be removed from display easily. Firstly, edit includes/tapestry.php and add the following new code to the end of the file, just before the closing ?> tag:
function tapestry_displayCategory($category){
$words = explode(" ",$category);
array_shift($words);
return implode(" ",$words);
}
With this in place, anywhere that category names are displayed you can wrap the variable within a call to tapestry_displayCategory($category) for example, in categories.php look for the following code at line 32:
$item["name"] = $category["name"];...and REPLACE with:
$item["name"] = tapestry_displayCategory($category["name"]);And for the expanding drop-down menu, edit html/menu_categories.php and look for the following code at line 32:
print "<a href='#'>".$category["name"]."</a>";...and REPLACE with:
print "<a href='#'>".tapestry_displayCategory($category["name"])."</a>";And also the following code at line 36:
print "<a href='".$itemHREF."'>".$category["name"]."</a>";..and REPLACE with:
print "<a href='".$itemHREF."'>".tapestry_displayCategory($category["name"])."</a>";Cheers,
David.
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