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Yes, I too am very interested in displaying a manufacturer’s list (or attribute list), either horizontal or vertical - since I need them in my navigation menu. I tried creating a category for each, since it’s easier to use categories, but this causes duplicates in my layered navigation (when viewing items via a different category tree).

dan_w - 26 March 2008 09:33 AM

Yes, we have been looking into how we are going to accomplish this as well. Since manufacturers is an attribute, we have yet to decide on how we will design this. I am going to look at it this afternoon and see if we can make any head way. Any suggestions from others would be appreciated.

hi dan.. i find your post on vertical menus very helpful… just a question.. i know you could help…

i have 3 main categories on my store.... learning, store, library....
i wanted to display the store categories only in my left sidebar.. how will i do it?

Thanks in advance.

I rebuild the Nav guided by “dan_w” and now it works.

THanks!

breastfed - 15 April 2008 10:50 PM

I rebuild the Nav guided by “dan_w” and now it works.

THanks!

will you be happy to share it with me? :D

@breastfed:

Add this code to the top of catalog/navigation/left.phtml:

Excellent post guys, thanks very much!

just wanted to take time saying thank you to dan_w
This really helps, not only for this matter but also to understand Magento.

I’d love to see some live demo

I’ve followed instructions and finally managed to create a vertical navigation bar, altough the final result it is pretty raw and destroy some part of my template as media/col_left_callout.jpg overrule products in the grid.

How I developed my left side navi (finally figured it out after 3 hours):

http://www.dogbedmall.com/magento

FYI:: The site is not finished yet…

@Conyx Group

very very nice.....how did you do the “By Brand “??

Conix Group as you have done??
From me the menu of the categories is still found in the div navigator while from you it is found in the side column.

archer - 14 April 2008 08:01 PM

dan_w - 26 March 2008 09:33 AM

Yes, we have been looking into how we are going to accomplish this as well. Since manufacturers is an attribute, we have yet to decide on how we will design this. I am going to look at it this afternoon and see if we can make any head way. Any suggestions from others would be appreciated.

hi dan.. i find your post on vertical menus very helpful… just a question.. i know you could help…

i have 3 main categories on my store.... learning, store, library....
i wanted to display the store categories only in my left sidebar.. how will i do it?

Thanks in advance.

Does anyone know the answer to this?

I am also interested in how to do the by brand option as Conyx has done. I figured out how to list all of the manufacturers attributes. However, I haven’t figured out how to link them to each one.

<?php

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');

$attributes = Mage::getResourceModel('eav/entity_attribute_collection')
->setEntityTypeFilter($product->getResource()->getTypeId())
->addFieldToFilter('attribute_code', 'manufacturer') // This can be changed to any attribute code
->load(false);

$attribute = $attributes->getFirstItem()->setEntity($product->getResource());

/* @var $attribute Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Attribute */
$manufacturers = $attribute->getSource()->getAllOptions(false);
foreach($manufacturers as $brand){
echo $brand["label"];
}

?>

Also,

I only want to display the first level of categories in my side nav - don’t want any sub categories when I hover over. How do I disable them?

Hi !

If its possible to put the categories in the left column, it should be possible to display them as a list on the center column of a CMS page too.

I’ve tired everything but cant seem to get it working.  We have many categories, and what i had in mind is something like the image I’m attaching.

Any ideas on how this could be done ?

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