sub categories on detail page

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Last Post: March 10, 2009   (RSS)

By ross - February 27, 2009

Hi Dan

The code is going to end up being the same except for when you display the category names. Just switch it up so that the French field is used instead of the English one.

Keep us up to date with how you are making out :).
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Re: [Dave] sub categories on detail page

By DanMaitland - March 3, 2009

Can you take a look at this error and le me know what i am doing wrong. I think I might need a bit more of a walk through for this sub menu thing.

here is the url. You will see that I have the category menu working fine its just the sub menu thing at the bottom that I cant get to work.

http://www.portatecqc.com/francais/products-details-fr.php?Basic-door-system-1

Re: [ross] sub categories on detail page

By DanMaitland - March 4, 2009 - edited: March 4, 2009

Here is one of the templates with the sub category menu as which is an include.

By Dave - March 4, 2009

Hi Dan,

And what is the problem currently? These templates look like they would display the french fields (name_fr) already?
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Re: [Dave] sub categories on detail page

By DanMaitland - March 4, 2009

the problem is actually pertaining to displaying the sub category. the files I posted are directly related to this link www.portatecqc.com/francais/products-details-fr.php if you look at the bottom of the page where it says sub category menu you will see the error.

By Dave - March 5, 2009

Hi Dan,

The error: "Notice: Undefined variable: subcategoryRecords" means that the $subCategoryRecords variable isn't being set anywhere.

And when I look through the code on those two pages that seems to be the case. Did you add some code to your english pages that set that? Perhaps the code I posted above?

Current your code sets $products_featuresRecords, and $categoryRecords but not $subCategoryRecords. So you'll need to add something to set that or use one of the existing variables.

Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Re: [Dave] sub categories on detail page

By DanMaitland - March 10, 2009

Can you tell me why in IE 7 the category menu on this page

http://www.portatecqc.com/francais/products-details-fr.php?Wood-finish-application-2

is showing "joutée" at the end. If you cannot see it I've attached a screen shot.
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By Dave - March 10, 2009

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the screenshot. I tried in IE8 but it looked ok there. My guess is it's a rendering glitch with IE7.

Anytime there's a difference in how the browsers display a page it's almost always because of the html, not the CMS. The browser doesn't know if the page is generated by a CMS or a plain html page.

So the trick to debugging it is to view-source and save that html as a test html file, such as test-wood-finish-application-2.html, in that same directory. Then modify the plain html in that file until you figure out what's causing IE7 to repeat that content.

Once you figure out what html code needs to be modified or added, etc to make it work in IE7, it's usually pretty straightforward to make the CMS output that.

Hope that helps, let me know how it goes!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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