Resolved - Only show category description/image once

[red sun]

Is there a way to only show the category description / associated image on the first page of each category's product listings?

 

The site I'm working on has a lovely big image gallery on each category landing page. This is fine for the first page, but it gets a bit tedious when you navigate through the next paginated pages of products and it's still at the top of the page.

 

Many thanks...

 

[bsmither]

I don't have enough products in the database to cause pagination, so this may or may not work.

 

Let's try this: assuming when the pagination is presented, there is a display logic variable we can test for: $page. Assuming $page is zero-based. If $page is one-based, we will need to make a small adjustment.

 

In the file /skins/YOUR_SKIN/templates/content.category.php, very near the top, find:

 

{if isset($category.image)}
<div id="category_image"><img src="{$category.image}" alt="{$category.cat_name}" /></div>
{/if}

{$category.cat_desc}

Change this to:

 

{if !isset($page) || empty($page)}
{if isset($category.image)}
<div id="category_image"><img src="{$category.image}" alt="{$category.cat_name}" /></div>
{/if}

{$category.cat_desc}
{/if}

This tests for $page being missing (no pagination needed), or $page being empty (equal to 0 or being the first page - hopefully). If so, we are on the first page and the category image and description will be presented. If we are on page 1 (actually being the second page), these won't be presented.

[red sun]

Hi bsmithers - many, many thanks for getting back to me. Unfortunately that didn't work as it removed the category description from all pages.

 

{if !isset($page) || empty($page)}
<div class="description">{$category.cat_desc}</div>
{/if}
 

If it's any help, the url is formed as "mydomain.com/mycat.html?page=1" for the first page and incrementing for subsequent pages, so guess we need to test for equal to or greater than 1? I tried a few attempts at this but without any luck - I'm a designer not a coder.

[bsmither]

Let's try:

{if !isset($page) || $page lt 2}

[red sun]

Absolutely brilliant - that's working perfectly. Thank you so much for your help.

[red sun]

I know this may sound dense - but how do I mark this as "resolved" so other users know there's a solution?

[Dirty Butter]

For some reason only moderators can change threads to Resolved on this forum.

[red sun]

Many thanks Dirty Butter - thought I was going mad when I couldn't find a way to edit the topic title.