Category structure I can't figure out

[crazy4bass]

Hey Chuck,

Can you tell me how this site is workign their structure out. I'm assuming this is some custom index page they made: Stampin Up! Gallery: Cards, Card Ideas, Samples & More - Splitcoaststampers

When you select a category: Stampin Up! Gallery: C to D - Cool Cat & More - Splitcoaststampers and then select a sub category: Stampin Up! Gallery: Calendar - Cards & More - Splitcoaststampers

You get a structure like this (I guess thisare the breadcrumb navigation):
Home » C-D Stampin' Up! Sets » Calendar Cards & More

For the life of me I can't figure out how to do this without making a top level category for "C-D Stampin' Up! Sets" (et al) to live in thus adding an extra level. I'm probably missing something stupid.


I'm also wondering if there is a way to add sortable fields. I'm already using the extra fields, so I'm thinking I'd have to add some code to do this but basically what I want is a 7th field that denotes an albums (or sub-cat I guess) status (ie: active, retired, etc) and then have that a searchable ro sortable field. That make sense? Any options you can think of, maybe a mod or something? Thanks

[Chuck S]

Splitcoaststampers Gallery - Main Index

There site is a customized older photopost but the category stuff nothing looks out of place

Stampin Up! Gallery: Calming Garden - Cards & More - Splitcoaststampers

A normal photopost breadcrumb looks like that

Role-Playing - PhotoPost Photo Gallery

So any photopost works like that just making top level cats and subcats etc.

The only sortable and searchable fields are the first 6 extra fields that exist in the photos and category tables.

[crazy4bass]

ok, I'll play with my structure some more.

Here's another one for you. In what file is the query that builds $cat (I think that's right). If I understand correctly, using VB Integration PP Pro doesn't make use of the headtags field, so I could actually use that field to control a template condition. However, I'm not finding the query that grabs the category info. Basically I want to do something like this in a template:

Content visible to verified customers only.

A bit overly simplistic but you get the idea and assume that field isn't being used with VB.

Thanks

[Chuck S]

Not really sure what your asking? $cat is a variable used in many files. $cats array which displays category info on the index is controlled by the function catrow in pp-inc.php

[crazy4bass]

ok, in the vb3enhanced template categories.tmpl if you view the $cats array has a key structure like this:
(numphotos,numposts,catthumbs,dodetails,indent,thumbtag,avatar,catdescript,
lpholink,lpprint,lastposttext,lastphotext,lpostlink,lcprint,catonline,mthumb,width,
height,id,thumbnail,thumblink,catlink,catcount)
which is the array being used to build the category table.

I want to know where this is built (cause I can't find it). Basically I want to add headtags to this array so it's available in the template.

[Chuck S]

I already answered this in my last post where $cats is built. You would use code already present like CatPerms will return the headtags for a cat.