Subcategories how do i add them?

[Patronbutiken]

Hello
Im trying to add subcategories but with no luck, I started to create catergory #1 Toners, ans saved it. so far so god, but when i tried to add a new category "Brother" and try to set #1 toners as the parent category i dont show up in the dropdownlist, any ideas why?
Thankfull for all help, im stucked

[bsmither]

Welcome Patronbutiken! Glad to see you made it to the forums.

This is a strange one.

In admin, Categories, there is a category with the name "#1 Toners" in the list?

As an experiment, edit that category and change its name from #1 Toners to just Toner. Save.

Then, try adding the Brother category and see if Toners shows in the drop-down. (I want to eliminate #1 as a possible troublemaker.)

Well, I just tried having a category named #1 Toners and it all works for me.

So, maybe we need to see if your hosting provider has some very aggressive database query caching installed on your server.

[Patronbutiken]

Thanks, i just wrote #1 as "number one category" the main category is called Toner, and i saved it then try to create the cat, Brother and set Toner as parent cat. but it never shows up in dropdown, so there is som problems i think

 

[bsmither]

Do you have skills editing HTML code?

If so, using a programmer's text editor, open the admin template categories.index.php:

Near line 81, verify that these lines of code exist:

<div><label for="parent">{$LANG.settings.category_parent}</label><span><select name="cat[cat_parent_id]" id="parent" class="textbox">
{foreach from=$SELECT_CATEGORIES item=category}
<option value="{$category.id}"{$category.selected}>{$category.display}</option>
{/foreach}


Then, at the very bottom of the file, add:

{debug}

When you request the admin page Categories, the browser will want to popup a window. Let it.

Then Add a new category.

In the popup, in the left section, scroll to $SELECT_CATEGORIES. In the right section, is there any value shown? There should be an array.

[Patronbutiken]

ok, thanks, i will try this later today, its 02.00 here in sweden now so its time to get some sleep, thanks for now, i get back to you with the result
Regards
Peter

[Patronbutiken]

I have tried it now, but ther is no $SELECT_CATEGORIES
the only thats i near that is:

$category Origin: "file:templates/categories.index.php"

Value Array (22) cat_id => "6" cat_name => "Toners" cat_desc => "<p>kassetter</p>\r\n" cat_parent_id => "0" cat_image => "0" per_ship => "0.00" item_ship => "0.00" item_int_ship => "0.00" per_int_ship => "0.00" hide => "0" seo_meta_title => "" seo_meta_description => "" seo_meta_keywords => "" priority => "1" status => "1"

[bsmither]

This screen grab is when viewing the main Categories list.

Choose a category to edit.

When viewing the Category Details screen (?_g=categories&node=index&action=edit&cat_id=1), look again for $SELECT_CATEGORIES.

[Patronbutiken]

ok

I ran in to more problems so i reinstalled the whole thing, and now it works, i can add subcategories så there must have been som fileerror i Think. But there is something strange still, the subcategories dont show up in the admin panel categories, only the topcat. But on the website i look ok

Thanks anyway for your tips, like the debug command.

[bsmither]

In CubeCart's main Categories list, if any category has children, the name of the category will be a link.

Click on the category name and the link will get a new page showing that category's children.

 

[Patronbutiken]

And now its working... strange but im quite happy with that :-)