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hallowed Total Posts: 21 Joined: 2008-08-19 Ignore user	Sander, Thank you but I tried your code for the left hand sub-category and it didn’t change anything. Is there something missing? I have the latest version of Magento.
	Posted: August 24 2008 \| top \| # 61

Sander Total Posts: 40 Joined: 2008-01-08 Utrecht Ignore user	hallowed - 24 August 2008 01:41 AM Sander, Thank you but I tried your code for the left hand sub-category and it didn’t change anything. Is there something missing? I have the latest version of Magento. I was in a hurry, saw that I copy pasted the wrong template file. My subcategories-on-left-side template looks like this: <ul class="sub-nav"> <?php $counter = 2; foreach ($this->getCurrentChildCategories() as $_category): ?> <?php echo $this->drawItem($_category, null, null, $counter); $counter++; ?> <?php endforeach ?> </ul> Forget about the counters, but as you can see the only thing I really did was get the child categories and use the drawItem function to render them. The only thing I can think of in your case is that your currently active category is the shop’s default/root category. Your main categories are children of the shop’s default category, so they get outputted. Other than that, can’t come up with a quick explanation
	Posted: August 25 2008 \| top \| # 62

CypherUk Total Posts: 7 Joined: 2008-06-23 Essex, UK Ignore user	Hi Guys. Please forgive my stupidity on this subject, but i have been going for 2 hours and still i can’t get my left category menu to show I’ve tried referencing the left.phtml file in my template Layout Update XML but the category menu wont show on the left. I know this is probably just something simple but for the life of me i cant figure it out. Can anyone throw me a lifeline and point me in the right direction. Any advice will be welcomed with many thanks and handfuls of removed hair Mark Using Magento 1.1.3 Signature It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me. Using Magento 1.1.6 and learning everyday !!
	Posted: August 26 2008 \| top \| # 63

yonirad Total Posts: 9 Joined: 2008-08-22 Ignore user	Does anyone have the right code and specific instructions to get static categories in the left?
	Posted: September 5 2008 \| top \| # 64

mrgad Total Posts: 54 Joined: 2008-08-29 Ignore user	edit - solved.
	Posted: September 9 2008 \| top \| # 65

hunterfox Total Posts: 1 Joined: 2008-09-05 Ignore user	Problem solved
	Posted: September 15 2008 \| top \| # 66

bulldog Total Posts: 3 Joined: 2008-07-04 Ignore user	Can somebody publish a clean code for both the default and modern theme? or add this to the connect manager?
	Posted: September 29 2008 \| top \| # 67

Naresh Vajawat Total Posts: 27 Joined: 2008-09-22 Ignore user	Hi, I just tried the same stuff by copying my Horizontal menu and adding width for the vertical stuff but the menu still comes over the menu and not on the side. Please find my menu.css file. I am also attaching my vert-nav.phtml. Please let me know where I went wrong. File Attachments menu.css (File Size: 5KB - Downloads: 51) vert_nav.phtml (File Size: 2KB - Downloads: 56)
	Posted: September 30 2008 \| top \| # 68

breastfed Total Posts: 151 Joined: 2007-09-24 Münster - Germany Ignore user	If you want to have the LI’s under each other for the vertical Nav, i would delete “#nav_vert li { float:left; }” because the LIs are floating. Maybe this work for you. Regards
	Posted: September 30 2008 \| top \| # 69

Nicky Total Posts: 2 Joined: 2008-01-08 Ignore user	Well, first post and thankful re: coding for the side navigation.. thankfully it is working great for me - the thing Im not sure how to do is make it so that the categories only show in the side navigation and not in the top navigation as there are too many categories for the top nav. I would like to have a few showing in the top nav.. but not all. Could anyone enlighten me how to not show all the categories in the top nav.. but make sure they show in the side nav? Any help much appreciated
	Posted: October 1 2008 \| top \| # 70

breastfed Total Posts: 151 Joined: 2007-09-24 Münster - Germany Ignore user	Hello if the TOP Nav Points won’t change often, you could hardcode the TOP Nav. For Example. Regards
	Posted: October 2 2008 \| top \| # 71

Nicky Total Posts: 2 Joined: 2008-01-08 Ignore user	Thanks for the reply - I understand what you are saying, but it means I won’t get the subcategories (I think?). Obviously if you have alot of categories, they will not all fit onto the top nav.. therefore an alternative option is pretty important.. is this something already integrated into Magento? Considering I’m just getting the hang of the programme, it wouldn’t surprise me if I missed something here. The other thing is I have applied Peter Hamilton’s side nav to the site, but it isnt SEO friendly, in the sense that search engines won’t spider the sub-categories - therefore, idealy, the current top nav structure would be great to have on, lets say the left, and only a chosen selection on the top nav. I’m pretty sure many have achieved this already.. so any help with this would be appreciated loads! Thanks in advance
	Posted: October 2 2008 \| top \| # 72

cooee Total Posts: 76 Joined: 2007-08-31 Aachen, Germany Ignore user	Hi there, is there a final solution yet? I mean, having the category list on the left-hand side of the page is a very straightforward thing in an online shop. What I cannot seem to get my head around is that changing the catalog.xml to contain something like this: `<block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.leftnav" template="catalog/navigation/top.phtml"/>` works like a charm, but changing this to `<block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.leftnav" template="catalog/navigation/left.phtml"/>` does not output the category list, although there is a template file called “left.phtml”. Very strange. Cheers, cooee Signature cooee eCommerce Blog
	Posted: October 9 2008 \| top \| # 73

btbc Total Posts: 86 Joined: 2008-06-11 Ignore user	Any way to alter this to show a brands/manufacturer list?
	Posted: October 11 2008 \| top \| # 74

Sensi Total Posts: 69 Joined: 2008-07-31 Paris, France Ignore user	Following Chris Norton’s Accordion Navigation example here: http://www.chnorton.com.au/2008/06/14/accordion-navigation/ vert_nav.phtml : `<div class="vertical-nav-container box base-mini"> <div class="vertical-nav"> <div class="head"> <h4><?php echo $this->__('Navigation') ?></h4> </div> <ul id="nav_vert"> <?php foreach ($this->getStoreCategories() as $_category): <?php echo $this->drawLeftNavItem($_category) ?> <?php endforeach; ?> </ul> </div> </div>` overridden app/code/local/MyCompany/Catalog/Block/navigation.php : class MyCompany_Catalog_Block_Navigation extends Mage_Catalog_Block_Navigation { public function drawLeftNavItem($category, $level=0, $last=false) { $html = ''; if (!$category->getIsActive()) { return $html; } $children = $category->getChildren(); $hasChildren = $children && $children->count(); $html.= '<li'; $html.= ' class="level'.$level; $html.= ' nav-'.str_replace('/', '-', $category->getRequestPath()); if ($this->isCategoryActive($category)) { $html.= ' active'; } if ($last) { $html .= ' last'; } if ($hasChildren && $this->isCategoryActive($category)) { $cnt = 0; foreach ($children as $child) { if ($child->getIsActive()) { $cnt++; } } $html .= ' parent'; } $html.= '">'."\n"; $html.= '<a href="'.$this->getCategoryUrl($category).'"><span>'.$this->htmlEscape($category->getName()).'</span></a>'."\n"; //$html.= '<span>'.$level.'</span>'; if ($hasChildren && $this->isCategoryActive($category)) { $j = 0; $htmlChildren = ''; foreach ($children as $child) { if ($child->getIsActive()) { $htmlChildren.= $this->drawLeftNavItem($child, $level+1, ++$j >= $cnt); } } if (!empty($htmlChildren)) { $html.= '<ul class="level' . $level . '">'."\n" .$htmlChildren .'</ul>'; } } $html.= '</li>'."\n"; return $html; } } app/code/etc/modules/MyCompany_Catalog.xml : `<?xml version="1.0"?> <config> <modules> <MyCompany_Catalog> <active>true</active> <codePool>local</codePool> </MyCompany_Catalog> </modules> </config>` app/code/local/MyCompany/Catalog/etc/config.xml : <?xml version="1.0"?> <config> <modules> <MyCompany_Catalog> <version>0.1.0</version> </MyCompany_Catalog> </modules> <global> <blocks> <catalog> <rewrite> <navigation>MyCompany_Catalog_Block_Navigation</navigation> </rewrite> </catalog> </blocks> </global> <frontend> <translate> <modules> <MyCompany_Catalog> <files> <default>Mage_Catalog.csv</default> </files> </MyCompany_Catalog> </modules> </translate> </frontend> </config> Some quick css to try it: ul#nav_vert ul.level0 { list-style-type:circle; } ul#nav_vert ul.level1 { list-style-type:square; } ul#nav_vert li a:link, ul#nav_vert li a:visited, ul#nav_vert li ul li a:link, ul#nav_vert li ul li a:visited, ul#nav_vert li ul li ul li a:link, ul#nav_vert li ul li ul li a:visited { font-size:11px; font-weight:bold; color:#999999; letter-spacing:0.1em; text-align:left; text-decoration:none; } ul#nav_vert li a:link, ul#nav_vert li a:visited { line-height:20px; text-transform:uppercase; } ul#nav_vert li ul li a:link, ul#nav_vert li ul li a:visited, ul#nav_vert li ul li ul li a:link, ul#nav_vert li ul li ul li a:visited { line-height:16px; text-transform:none; } ul#nav_vert li a:hover, ul#nav_vert li.active a, ul#nav_vert li ul li a:hover, ul#nav_vert li ul li.active a, ul#nav_vert li ul li ul li a:hover, ul#nav_vert li ul li ul li.active a { color:#000000; } ul#nav_vert li ul { margin:0 0 0 20px; } ul#nav_vert li ul li a:hover, ul#nav_vert li ul li ul li a:hover { text-decoration:underline; } Regards. Image Attachments Click thumbnail to see full-size image Signature Friends: Kaipifraise web agency
	Posted: 1 month ago \| top \| # 75

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