Subcategories in first page only

[rbl]

Hi!
My main category has 24 subcategories.
Is very annoying to scroll down in every page to see the images, while browsing it.
It would be great if the subcategories are visible (or expanded) only in the first page, and hidden (or collapsed) in every subsequent page.

I thought I had seen this in a feature list but I'm not really sure.

Ricardo

[KW802]

RBL,

For an intermediate hack check out this thread: http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5473

Looks like from that thread also that Brian has put it on his 'to do' list to handle in some fashion with a future release instead of having to do a hack.

[rbl]

Thanks Kevin but if I understood correctly, I don't think this is related to my suggestion, which is remove/hide the omnipresent subcategories listing on a category where you have images to browse.

Take a look:
- Gallery index page listing the 2 main categories, Community Photoblog and Member Categories. Fine, no probs.
http://35mm.org/fotoblog/

- Community Photoblog index page, subcategories on top, images bellow. Fine, also no problems.
http://35mm.org/fotoblog/browseimages.php?c=1

- Page 2 of the Community Photoblog page, same listing of subcategories as on page 1 and images bellow.
http://35mm.org/fotoblog/browseimage...ges&c=1&page=2

Now try to browse pages 3, 4, 5 and so on, and you'll see how annoying that subcat list can be because you are seeing it over and over again and you have always to scroll down.

[KW802]

OK, I see what you're saying. If nobody else hits it I'll try to think of something. What I'm thinking would be to combine that change that Brian listed in that thread I referenced above with an "if" statement that if the page number in the URl is greate then 1 then to set the depth level to 0.

[rbl]

I've tried Brian's code and set it to zero but the subcats are always there.
I was thinking about doing something somewhere in the "default" switch (browseimages.php line 326)... but a conditional tag can also do the trick I suppose...

[rbl]

For future reference or anyone with a similar request, the instructions are:
- open browseimages.php and search for:
$show['subcats'] = iif($subcatbits = print_categories($catinfo['catid']), true);

- replace by:
// Mod to display subcategories only in the first page
// $show['subcats'] = iif($subcatbits = print_categories($catinfo['catid']), true);
if ($page == 1 OR !$page)
{
$show['subcats'] = iif($subcatbits = print_categories($catinfo['catid']), true);
}
}