category link on products page

[Guest]

Does anyone know if there is a way to make the Category breadcrumb at the top og the boxContent a link

When you go into the Product page the trail isn't a link, but it would be very useful if it was as a quick way back to the category index.

Im in the process of heavily modifying the cart visually, as the shopping functionality only needs adding at a later date. But the above query is really bugging me. (if i get it all working i'll liscense cart and the search engine friendly mod, which seems brilliant)

an example of the problem can be seen

http://lcp4.hotchilli.net/~blues14682/stor...y-desk/p_8.html

how can i get Location: » C3 Cantilever Desking to be a link back to the category?

Cheers Tim

[kinetic]

search the forum this has been discussed and has a well thought out hack

search category links or breadcrumb

heres one...

http://www.cubecart.com/site/forums/index....=category+links

[Guest]

Cheers, i did that, but the only hack/s i could find, completely cocked up the search engine friendly mod up.

I tried this one for example and that starts setting the page title etc to a link, or at least tries to, so you get the <a href = ..... as the title.

Any other ideas

Edit: yep thats the one i tried and it was a no go :ninja:

[Guest estelle]

This is what i did for 3.0.2. Looks like the same change should work for 3.0.3, but I haven't tried it yet.

This is different to the code in that other thread. The if() statement in the following code prevents the category name being a link when you're viewing the category itself.

Edit includes/functions.inc.php

Replace:

$dirArray[0] = $config['dirSymbol'].$catName;

With: 

	// When viewing a product, provide link to its category

if(isset($_GET['act']) && $_GET['act']=="viewProd")

{

    $dirArray[0] = $config['dirSymbol']."<a href='".$GLOBALS['rootRel']."index.php?ccUser=".$sessId."&amp;catId=".$catId."&amp;act=viewCat' class='txtLocation'>".$catName."</a>";

}

else {

    $dirArray[0] = $config['dirSymbol'].$catName;

}

[Guest]

Ta, but still causing problems

have a butchers :

http://lcp4.hotchilli.net/~blues14682/stor...turns/p_12.html

its changing the title again

also changing the whole url for the category page link works though :D

[Guest estelle]

Personally i think the problem is with your search engine friendly mod

Why would the search engine friendly mod be using the same function (getCatDir) to create the page title? Because the getCatDir function has always put html links into the output.

Did the search engine friendly mod also require changes to the getCatDir function?

[kinetic]

no on the get catDir and the SEO titles

[Guest estelle]

:unsure: Sorry, i don't understand what you're saying kinetic.

redbak, you only made the change in one spot, in getCatDir() in functions.inc.php, yeah?

[Guest]

was a tadge short the answer by Kinetic.

Estelle, yes i only made the one change you said. Im using the search engine mod in the downloads section.

If i cant get it to work, i will stick with the seo mod as its more important but it would be nice if i could do both.

Cheers Tim

[Guest rukiman]

In functions.inc.php make this change if you have the search engine friendly mod on and want to make this mod. Remember getCatDir() function is used not only to create links but also return the category structure hence it is vital you check whether the caller requested it to be returned as links.

Replace

$dirArray[0] = $config['dirSymbol'].$catName;

with this

if($link == TRUE){

	/* <rf> search engine friendly mods */	

	if($config['sef'] == 0) {  

  $dirArray[0] = $config['dirSymbol']."<a href='".$GLOBALS['rootRel']."index.php?ccUser=".$sessId."&amp;catId=".$catId."&amp;act=viewCat' class='txtLocation'>".$catName."</a>";

	} else {  	

  $dirArray[0] = $config['dirSymbol']."<a href='".$GLOBALS['rootRel']."index.php?act=viewCat&amp;catId=".$catId."' class='txtLocation'>".$catName."</a>";  	

	}

	/* <rf> end mod */

} else {  	

	$dirArray[0] = $config['dirSymbol'].$catName;	

}

p.s I haven't tested this so use at your own risk :(

[Guest tbladecki]

Take a look at my site and see if that is what you are looking for.... I have a breadcrumb trail that allows you to click on the links to the dirs above.

If so I will copy the code that i entered to do it and post it for you. Mine has worked fine and i have not had any problems, I do not have the search mod installed and I am using 3.0.2

[Guest rukiman]

I forgot to mention that snippet I posted will work regardless of whether you have the search engine friendly mod installed or not.

[Guest]

Rukiman, that i owe you one. That works spot on

http://lcp4.hotchilli.net/~blues14682/stor...-desk/p_19.html

I will be getting the mod liscensed before long.

Thanks again

Tim

[Guest treecom]

Anyone having problems with V3.0.14?

I am having problems with the category links in V3.0.14

Look here

http://shop.amainobj.com/index.php?act=vie...amp;productId=1

and here

http://shop.amainobj.com/index.php?ccUser=...amp;act=viewCat

and see the difference.

[Guest dreamdancer]

^ I am having same problem, is there a fix somewhere?

[Guest treecom]

anyone got any clue on this problem?

[Guest]

I figured it out, it was a third party CC mod causing the problem. I have it fixed. Contact me if you want to know what I did.