Category Thumbnails

[Guest]

I would like to show the sub category thumbnails instead of the full sub category image when the sub categories are all shown together under their category.

Has anyone done this? There doesn't appear to be a macro for category thumbnails, only product thumbnails. Is there a mod available?

[Guest paperplayers.com]

Have you figured this out? Thanks.

I would like to show the sub category thumbnails instead of the full sub category image when the sub categories are all shown together under their category.

Has anyone done this? There doesn't appear to be a macro for category thumbnails, only product thumbnails. Is there a mod available?

[markscarts]

Here is a hack, or mod if you will. Be sure to SAVE and RENAME original files, in other words back up your files before editing them. No one but you are responsible for the changes you make to your files here

OPEN includes/content/viewCat.inc.php

FIND about line 82:

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

PASTE this line below it:

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

SAVE and UPLOAD that file to your store.

Now, OPEN skins/xx/styleTemplates/content/viewCat.tpl

FIND this line of code:

<a href="index.php?act=viewCat&amp;catId={TXT_LINK_CATID}" class="txtDefault"><img src="{IMG_CATEGORY}" alt="{TXT_CATEGORY}" border="0" title="{TXT_CATEGORY}" /></a><br />

CHANGE to this line:

<a href="index.php?act=viewCat&amp;catId={TXT_LINK_CATID}" class="txtDefault"><img src="{THUMB_CATEGORY}" alt="{TXT_CATEGORY}" border="0" title="{TXT_CATEGORY}" /></a><br />