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•babrees Expert Usergroup: Customer Joined: Aug 19, 2005 Location: England Total Topics: 391 Total Comments: 1303	•babrees #1 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 06, 2008 - 8:34 AM: I'd like to split the drop down box into two - have one for all categories under cat#32 and another for all the other categories. How do I do that please?
•Paul developer Usergroup: Administrator Joined: Dec 20, 2001 Location: Diamond Springs, California Total Topics: 61 Total Comments: 7868	•Paul #2 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 06, 2008 - 11:38 AM: There are no facilities for creating ad hoc category selectors. Moving to feature suggestions.
•webflair Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Total Topics: 187 Total Comments: 465	•webflair #3 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 07, 2008 - 6:41 PM: You could do it with toplists though
•babrees Expert Usergroup: Customer Joined: Aug 19, 2005 Location: England Total Topics: 391 Total Comments: 1303	•babrees #4 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 07, 2008 - 9:39 PM: jayweb wrote: You could do it with toplists though Been playing around with this but can't get it to work! Obviously wrong, but my latest attempt was: <form action="{DIRURL}/index.php?action=displaycat&catid={CATID}" method="post"> <select name="catid"> <option value="0">Find a Retailer</option> <!-- BEGIN TOPLIST 21 --> <CONFIG>categories,name;id,500,ascending,parent='32',,,0,0,0,0,0,0,,0</CONFIG> <option value="{catid}">{CATNAME}</option> <!-- END TOPLIST 21 --> </select> <input type="submit" value="Go" class="button" > </form> This just produces the message: Non-numeric catid value requested: {catid} So it is not making the option value the actual id I would of course also prefer if it were possible to use the rewrite.
•webflair Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Total Topics: 187 Total Comments: 465	•webflair #5 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 08, 2008 - 4:02 PM: {catid} should be {CATID}
•webflair Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Total Topics: 187 Total Comments: 465	•webflair #6 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 08, 2008 - 4:12 PM: {catid} should be {CATID} Anyway, id use this.... <form action="redirecttourl.php"> <select name="catid"> <!-- BEGIN TOPLIST 21 --> <CONFIG>categories,name;id,500,ascending,parent='32',,,0,0,0,0,0,0,,0</CONFIG> <option value="{CATID}">{CATNAME}</option> <!-- END TOPLIST 21 --> </select> <input type="submit" value="Go" class="button" /> </form> This also give a rewritten url
•babrees Expert Usergroup: Customer Joined: Aug 19, 2005 Location: England Total Topics: 391 Total Comments: 1303	•babrees #7 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 08, 2008 - 9:35 PM: Thanks for spotting that Jayweb! Unfortunately I still can't get it to work. I tried using the redirecttourl.php before. Now it just goes to "page not found". When using index.php?action=displaycat&catid={CATID} it just goes to the home page.
•webflair Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Total Topics: 187 Total Comments: 465	•webflair #8 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 09, 2008 - 2:24 PM: Use my example above, I have tested it and it works
•babrees Expert Usergroup: Customer Joined: Aug 19, 2005 Location: England Total Topics: 391 Total Comments: 1303	•babrees #9 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 09, 2008 - 11:20 PM: I did try it and that's when it goes to a page not found. Sadly that site is currently down for some reason, but I shall try it again when it is back up - which I really hope is soon!!! :-(
•babrees Expert Usergroup: Customer Joined: Aug 19, 2005 Location: England Total Topics: 391 Total Comments: 1303	•babrees #10 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 11, 2008 - 4:13 AM: Thanks Jayweb! Got it working now Had to do a new install and then restore a back up of a couple of days ago. Luckily I keep a series of back ups up to 3 days old! The drop-down box works a treat :-)
•babrees Expert Usergroup: Customer Joined: Aug 19, 2005 Location: England Total Topics: 391 Total Comments: 1303	•babrees #11 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 11, 2008 - 11:44 PM: Still on this, and it works beautifully :-) But, can we have it so that it does not need a go button? The user just selects and it goes?
•webflair Forum Regular Usergroup: Customer Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Total Topics: 187 Total Comments: 465	•webflair #12 - Quote - Permalink Posted Aug 29, 2008 - 11:25 PM: Well that's actually quite easy to do Babrees. This time we don't use redirecturl.php, but instead use javascript... <form action="../"> <select onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_top')"> <!-- BEGIN TOPLIST 21 --> <CONFIG>categories,name;id,500,ascending,parent='32',,,0,0,0,0,0,0,,0</CONFIG> <option value="{CATURL}">{CATNAME}</option> <!-- END TOPLIST 21 --> </select> </form>

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