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Hi…

I’m wondering if there’s anyway to display all subcategies using the Grid view (or list view)...so let’s say I have a top menu with the main categories, and when the user clicks on any of them instead of being taken directly to the products list - the user could first see the subcategories in almost the same way they see the products…

So it’d show the image that belongs to that subcategory as well as the description, once they click on any of these they’d be able to see all the products available under this subcategory?

Does anyone know if it’s possible? would it be too much work to implement?

Any help is greatly appreciated....

Thanks in advance…

BTW, I’m aware we can easily do that by using the CMS pages and some XHTML, but in cases where there are too many categories/subcategories this would be time consuming...so I’m wondering if anyone has had the chance to implement something like this....

Thanks for any comments!

Did you get any further with this one? I am about to embark on the same thing and was just going to see if you can point me in the right direction

hi - actually this thread here has everything you need to accomplish just that : http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/14527/

Good luck!

ijeweb - 24 September 2008 04:55 AM

hi - actually this thread here has everything you need to accomplish just that : http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/14527/

But that with thread only show categories on the home page; but, what if I want to show all the categories inside another category? I mean, something like this:

http://www.bivouac.co.nz/Bivouac/Footwear.htm

cgfc - 31 October 2008 11:16 AM

ijeweb - 24 September 2008 04:55 AM

hi - actually this thread here has everything you need to accomplish just that : http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/14527/

But that with thread only show categories on the home page; but, what if I want to show all the categories inside another category? I mean, something like this:

http://www.bivouac.co.nz/Bivouac/Footwear.htm

Were you able to find or create some code to be able to do what http://www.bivouac.co.nz/Bivouac/Footwear.htm has done?

Thanks in advance for a response

I’m also interested in this.

There is a solution on the thread mentioned above, you have to look on the second page. “brendan.” wrote some marvelous code which I am currently using to output subcategories on 2nd tier categories.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/14527/P15/

This is a great thread, great information:

I have this working on my test site. But I would like to take it a step further. I want to display a list of products that are in each sub-category. Is there a way to do this.

Here’s my test site page: http://www.kyjen.com.php5-2.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com/shop/index.php/holiday-products/collars-with-bells-more.html

Here’s what I want it to look like: http://kyjen.com/products/category/holiday-products/hp-collars/

Notice the only small difference is the list of products with the arrows next to them. Could this be done? What change would I need to make to the code?

Any help is appreciated.