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hi,

sorry ive been really busy lately.
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Give me a shout if you still need help
brendan

I’ve just come across this thread as I needed to add images to sub-categories.

Brendan’s code works very well for me, many thanks for posting but, and this may be blindingly obvious, to get a return from

you have to add

to the function getCurrentChildCategories() in

app\code\core\Mage\Catalog\Block\Navigation.php

as

Sorry if this has already been mentioned

edit

This change to the core code may be overwritten when you update!

thanks clorne,

yeah, i would suggest putting this change into your local folder.
I have it setup so its not using the core but a local copy of the navigation.php

let me know if you need to know how to do this

cheers

brendan. - 31 October 2008 11:12 PM

thanks clorne,

yeah, i would suggest putting this change into your local folder.
I have it setup so its not using the core but a local copy of the navigation.php

let me know if you need to know how to do this

cheers

I’d be interested to know this. I’m having trouble rewriting multiple corefiles to the local folder.

Could you please share some info.

Thanks

Hi all,

ok I have just implemented this into my site.  Everything works but the images.  It shows an image should be there, but all I get is the dreaded RED x

Any ideas or solutions?

Thanks much for this, this is good

hi,

whats your code look like.
Sounds to melike you havent added the relevant field

cheers

clorne - 31 October 2008 11:21 AM

I’ve just come across this thread as I needed to add images to sub-categories.

Brendan’s code works very well for me, many thanks for posting but, and this may be blindingly obvious, to get a return from

$_category->getImageUrl()

you have to add

->addAttributeToSelect('image')

to the function getCurrentChildCategories() in

app\code\core\Mage\Catalog\Block\Navigation.php

as

$collection->addAttributeToSelect('url_key')
            ->addAttributeToSelect('name')
            ->addAttributeToSelect('is_anchor')
            ->addAttributeToSelect('image')
            ->addAttributeToFilter('is_active', 1)
            ->addIdFilter($category->getChildren())
            ->setOrder('position', 'ASC')
            ->joinUrlRewrite()
            ->load();

Sorry if this has already been mentioned

edit

This change to the core code may be overwritten when you update!

Per this post this is what my code looks like:

ok, that looks cool

what about your phtml file your calling??

brendan

Thanks for the help.

I am using the exact code you posted on page 2 post #28.  I created the exact same .phtml filename and uploaded it directly to where you said it needed to rest.

I followed that post to a “T” well I think I did, LOL.

But here is the code anyways:

hmmm

looks ok. (code is the same per my current website)

Just to state the obvious you have an image assigned to the categories in question right?

Also you have “this” phtml file in the folder catalog\navigation

brendan

also try to refresh or disable cache

looks ok. (code is the same per my current website) - OK Thats not the issue.

Just to state the obvious you have an image assigned to the categories in question right? - Oooops, my bad, no image is assigned for any category as I thought this was for random images from each category Sorry

Also you have “this” phtml file in the folder catalog\navigation - Here is my structure app/design/frontend/MY-TEMPLATE/theme/template/catalog/navigation/

no worries..

I would reckon its not returning images as you need to set images for each category

note: This script returns the images for the child categories.

Your location is all good.

cheers

brendan,
everything works great on my end. Thanks for the help. A real time saver. The only change that I made was to add a second category attribute called “second image”. That way I could have one main category image (for the actual category view page) and then a second category image to be called in the navigation. If anyone has any interest in defining how to add more than one category image, I’d be more than willing to help.

Dan

dan,

that secondary category image would be cool.

Can you share the code?

brendan