Category Images

[Guest ebooks]

I see options in the Admin Control Panel to attach images to my categories and I have done this. However, when looking at the store, I see no category images anywhere unless it is on a sub-category page.

How do I get to display my main category images?

[Guest ebooks]

Does anybody have an answer for this?

[markscarts]

In your ACP, click on "View Categories." At the list of categories, find your top-level category and click on "Edit." You should see a screen allowing you to either upload an image or browse through existing images and assign it to the category. Once you've chosen an image, remember to click on the "Edit" button in order to save your change. That's it.

[Guest ebooks]

Thank you. I already knew how to add a category image. I kind of answered my own question. Anyway, what I really needed was to make

http://www.ebookshoppingcenter.com/CubeCart3/

look more like

http://www.ebookshoppingcenter.com/cubecart/

as far as the main display area goes. Anybody know how to do this?

[Guest Insurrectus]

I'm looking for this too. Somebody came up with a mod to have the latest products look like this. It would be great to have the categories listed on the homepage again with images.

Anyone willing to create a routine for this?

Thanks.

[Guest Denver Dave]

I hacked the code to present the category thumbnails instead of the default folder image. Wonder if there is a mod someplace? I guess I'll have to remember where made the change when I upgrade to v3.0.5 I was not a hard change, just set the thumb rather than the default folder image. Really should be part of the standard package.

Oh, this might be it

in - includes/content/viewCat.inc.php

//*** davehack ***

if(empty($subCategories[$i]['cat_image']))

{

$view_cat->assign("IMG_CATEGORY",$GLOBALS['rootRel']

."skins/".$config['skinDir']."/styleImages/catnophoto.gif");

$view_cat->assign("THUMB_IMG_CATEGORY",$GLOBALS['rootRel']

. "skins/".$config['skinDir']."/styleImages/catnophoto.gif");

}

else

{

$view_cat->assign("IMG_CATEGORY", $GLOBALS['rootRel']."images/uploads/".$subCategories[$i]['cat_image']);

$view_cat->assign("THUMB_IMG_CATEGORY",

$GLOBALS['rootRel']

."images/uploads/thumbs/thumb_".$subCategories[$i]['cat_image']);

}

// *** end davehack ***

That's how I did it anyway.

[Guest sunshine]

For 3.04, each category already has the option to have a leading pic.