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I’m building a shop for a client whose target market is exceptionally brand conscious, so we want to have a menu on the left side of the homepage that displays all of the brands they carry along with their logos. I realize that manufacturer is treated as an attribute in Magento, so I figured the best solution was to attack this from two perspectives - assign each item to its associated manufacturer and then also create a top-level category called “Shop By Brand” that contains each brand as a subcategory. Then, when we added a new product to a store, we’d add it to it’s proper main category (i.e. Men’s Apparel -> Board Shorts) as well as to it’s associated brand category (i.e. Shop By Brand -> Ocean Pacific).
What I’d then like to do is have a display on the left side that only showed those subcats under the “Sop By Brand” category. I’d also like to display all of the other categories on the homepage in small stacked lists.
How would I go about doing this? I’m quite well versed in PHP so I’m not the least bit afraid of writing some code so long as someone can point me in the right direction (so far, both the phpdoc and API docs have been completely useless).
Naturally, I’ll also share whatever I wind up with.
Thanks!
Rob Z.
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