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I read through the Agorasupport.com info but did'nt understand it very well. I have 15 main categories, 59 subcategories and 10 sub-subcategories. Can anybody help me through this?

Hi,
I can understand your concerns when something is new to you and understanding of a tutorial is beyond your scope on first reading but I must say that the tutorial given is Extremely well set out and probably could not be made any easia.
My advise is to either Re Read the tutorial again ( I know it's a pain, but another reading may make it more understandable ) and break it down into chunks.
Also may be best to do exactly what it says in the tutorial and get their version up and running first, this sometimes makes it easia to understand what they mean. Then you can tweek it and change bits to fit your needs.

Another thing is to think of the catagories in terms of pages.
EG. Your first page will hold links to sub catagory pages which hold links to sub-subcatagories parsed as catagories through your product entry on manager.cgi screen.
Without a digram it's difficult to explain here but here goes.

index.html -
- <href="agora.cgi?&page=subcat1.html> -
- <href="agora.cgi?cart_id=&product=prod1>
- <href="agora.cgi?cart_id=&product=prod2>
- <href="agora.cgi?cart_id=&product=prod3>
- <href="agora.cgi?&page=subcat2.html> -
- <href="agora.cgi?cart_id=&product=prod4>
- <href="agora.cgi?cart_id=&product=prod5>
- <href="agora.cgi?cart_id=&product=prod3>

And so on.
So build your index.html with the cat links to sub-cat pages,
and the Sub-cat pages with the products links.

Takes a bit of getting used to to understand the workings, but I hope this has not confused you more.

Regards.
Glen.


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glen.m.darby@virgin.net

Okay. I don't see how to implement this. I am looking in the index.html file and I see the agorascript-pre where it is retreiveing all of the catgories from the product list. I don't understand where to place the code you show in the above post. Nor do I understand how it will successfully display in pages created dynamically using the inc files. Seems like that code should go in a inc file somewhere. So if my catagory is Saftey, and 3 of the subcatagories is Glasses, Gloves, and Earplugs - how can the agorascript decipher that and display it correctly since the product only allows a single product catagory and the parent of that catgory isn't known?

Or maybe you're telling me to hardcode the catagories and subcatagories and loose the dynamically generated list?

hmmmmm.
timjea

Hi,
Thought I may have misslead you a little,
The code was a different way of looking at doing subcats not an extension to the one explained on agorasupport...... Sorry bout that.
Yes it is a way to hardcode the subcats and dosn't use the search facilities like the agorasupport one.
Using productPage.inc's to hold each individual catagorie, then the subcats are presented on those pages for selection.

Have you tried doing the agorasupport version as suggested you may find when you get into it that it comes together in your mind much easia then you can change it to suite your needs.

Sorry if i've been missleading.
Regards.
Glen.


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glen.m.darby@virgin.net

this is what I have used now to link to a list of products and only display things in a specific subcatagory

<a style="color:white;text-decoration:none;" href="agora.cgi?cart_id=%%cart_id%%&product=BALLS&user5=STORM">text</a>

this is working for my menu at http://www.12xsproshop.com


I hope this helps