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Hello,

We can help, but we’d need more details, and maybe a screenshot of your home page.

Thanks, Joe.

It’s up at http://magento.vertigocore.com (on a mediatemple gridserver).

Presently, my catalog.xml has:

<reference name="left.menu">
<block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.leftnavig" before="-" template="catalog/navigation/left_menu.phtml"/>
</reference>

my page.xml

<block type="core/text_list" name="left" as="left"/>
<block type="core/text_list" name="left.menu" as="leftMenu"/>

my 3columns.phtml

<!-- [start] left -->
<div class="column span-4">
<?=$this->getChildHtml('leftMenu')?>
<?=$this->getChildHtml('left')?>
</div>
<!-- [end] left -->

my templates/catalog/left_menu.phtml:

<?php
$_main_categories=$this->getStoreCategories(10);
if($_main_categories->count()):
?>

<div id="allCategories" class="blueShade">
<h3><span><?=$this->__('My categories')?></span></h3>
<div class="border-creator">
<div class="narrow-by">
<dl id="narrow-by-list">
<?foreach ($_main_categories as $_main_category):?>
<dt><a href="<?=$this->getCategoryUrl($_main_category)?>"<?if ($this->isCategoryActive($_main_category)):?> class="active"<?endif?>><?=$_main_category->getName()?></a></dt>
<dd>
<ol>
<? $_sub_categories=$this->_getChildCategories($_main_category, 10); ?>
<?foreach ($_sub_categories as $_sub_category):?>
<li>
  -><a href="<?=$this->getCategoryUrl($_sub_category)?>"<?if ($this->isCategoryActive($_sub_category)):?> class="active"<?endif?>><?=$_sub_category->getName()?></a></li>
<?endforeach?>
</ol>
</dd>
<?endforeach?>
</dl>
<script type="text/javascript\">decorateDataList(’narrow-by-list’)</script>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?endif;?>

Sorry, I just don’t get it. I think everything checks out.

-A

Got this working by activating categories! Sorry for the trouble.

Hi guys,

I was able to follow the above steps in the latest version and was able to have the Left navigation on the HOME PAGE. I utilized the left.phtml file provided with the installation. The only problem I am having is that that the left navigation shows up on the Product pages as well. so now I have two Category navigations.

this is what I did:

1.  LAYOUT/CATELOG.XML

2.  LAYOUT/PAGE.XML

3.  TEMPALTE/PAGE/3COLUMNS.PHTML

I just want this to add a Left Navigation on the home page. Not on the Product/Catalog page...etc. I also noted that there is already a reference on the catalog.xml page for left nav BUT WHERE DO I define refernces for the home page?? is there an xml page, just lake catelog.xml that I can defiene things that I want to be on the home page??

See the attach screen on the effect of this.

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Joe - 21 January 2008 04:39 PM

Hello,

I also created a variation of the vertical category menu display, that will show a list of main categories, with a subcategories for only the active one, and without empty main categories:

If you want to put this on the Home page too, you need to check if you have an active category, otherwise you’ll get a Cannot retrieve current category object message.

Put the code

And after the line

Im using Joe’s code to create a vertical menu.
How can I rearrange the order in which the categories and sub-categories appear?

Actually you do it thru the back admin

GO Catalog>>Manage Categories

GO CHOOSE STORE its English for me

then just drag the category to the position you want it to assume
on your Stores Nav bar its all in AJAX

great little feature that is

Have fun

http://www.freeblog.co.nz

Thank you Joe for the code reference that does work beautifully.
I am trying to go 1 step further and have a combination of your two examples.
First I am splitting out the categories into their own visual groups.
Next, I am listing the subcategories in Joe’s example 1 open spread (minus the homepage category using the method in example two),
What i want to do is then list the products under each category on the left with the expansion//collapse capability from (joes) example two.
This is expanding, however the Product example shows under all child categories, not just the one selected.

Lovely bit of code there! How would I adjust this to show my third level categories? For example:

Main Category
- Secondary cat
- Third level 1
- Third level 2
- Secondary cat 2
Main Category 2
Main Category 3

Ideally, once you click into the main category, it will show both the other mains, and all of the seconday categories. Once you click a secondary category, third level ones show for that click, leaving the secondaries and the main categories in place.

This make sense?

Finished it, its in the showcase area.

but I am doing it a bit differently.

Everything displays like above @ http://www.eins1.us

Thank you in advance,
~josh
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NOTE* “_getChildCategories” now breaks since .8.17240 upgrade.

Hi,

I tried to implement the code above to print my categorie list, but i got this error :

Sorry for this stupid question but i’m just discovering Magento

If anyone could help…

Hello AkyRhO2,

The code I shared in here only applies to magento v0.7.x, and not for latest ones.
I’m waiting for the production release to make an update, and I will share it.

Thanks, Joe.

Thank you Joe… I’ll find another way to do it

YoavKutner - 11 November 2007 11:06 PM

We should add more Magento design packages early next year.

Thanks

yoav

Hi, Yoav, is this going to be released soon?

Thanks!

Hello,

i tried to put joes Menu to my Magento 1.0 Version, but I always get an Redirect-error. There must be an error in this code-block from left_menu.phtml:

If I delete this block, the top catgeories are shown. But if I enter one catgeorei, I only see the subcategories under this one main_categorie. so it seems like this donesn`t work in Magento 1.0. Has anybody the same problem or fixed it for Magento 1.0?