hope you can help..
I was trying to get subcategories to appear as a permanent side-menu -

for some reason the menu link urls are there but the actual text for the link doesn't show up- so its invisible effectively...here's the full sub menu routine...


sub menu {
# --------------------------------------------------------
#
my (%c, @fields);
open (DB, "<$db_category_name") or &cgierr("unable to open $db_file_name. Reason: $!");
if ($db_use_flock) { flock(DB, 1); }
LINE: while (<DB>) {
(/^#/) and next LINE;
(/^\s*$/) and next LINE;
@fields = &split_decode ($_);
$c{$fields[$db_main_category]}++;
}
close DB;
foreach $field (sort keys %c) {
unless ($field =~ m,^([^/]*)$,) {
$field2 = &build_clean($1);
$category_list .= qq|<a href= "$build_root_url/$field">$field2</a>
|;
}
}
return $category_list;
}

No need to post duplicate Posts in the forums...add replies to your original Threads, please.

The $1 variable looks to be undefined.



Regards,

Eliot Lee

I changed that to ($field) but I get the category name in the link too - i.e. category_subcat
I'm trying to just get the subcategory name in the menu...
is it possible?

hope you can help...

anyone been able to have a look at this problem?

Try changing:


unless ($field =~ m,^([^/]*)$,) {

To:

unless ($field =~ m,.*/([^/]+)$,) {

Glenn

Links 2 Mods Site:
http://cgi-resource.co.uk/pages/links2mods.shtml

unfortunately that just printrs the main categories - I am trying to get the sub-categories only. And rather than 'category_subcategory'
printing on the page, i just wanted 'subcategory '

hope you can help....

Change this:

$field2 = &build_clean($1);
$category_list .= qq|<a href= "$build_root_url/$field">$field2</a>

to....

$field2 = &build_clean($1);
$field2 =~ /^.+\_/;
$category_list .= qq|<a href= "$build_root_url/$field">$field2</a>


That MAY work or MAY not.

Paul
Installations:http://wiredon.net/gt/
Support: http://wiredon.net/forum/

no, unfortunately that just produces odd, absolute path style links

would i be better to just add static links to the category template to do this?

No cause if you change your categories you'll need to alter all the static links.

This will work, replace:

unless ($field =~ m,^([^/]*)$,) {

With:

unless ($field =~ m?/([^"]+)?) {




Glenn

Links 2 Mods Site:
http://cgi-resource.co.uk/pages/links2mods.shtml

it still seems to print absolute path details - although it does also print the url's to the sub-categories, the titles of them are all the same, and not what they are called

here is the full sub menu -

sub menu {
# --------------------------------------------------------
#
my (%c, @fields);
open (DB, "<$db_category_name") or &cgierr("unable to open $db_file_name. Reason: $!");
if ($db_use_flock) { flock(DB, 1); }
LINE: while (<DB>) {
(/^#/) and next LINE;
(/^\s*$/) and next LINE;
@fields = &split_decode ($_);
$c{$fields[$db_main_category]}++;
}
close DB;
foreach $field (sort keys %c) {
unless ($field =~ m?/([^"]+)?) {
$field2 = &build_clean($1);
$field2 =~ /^.+\_/;
$category_list .= qq|<a href= "$build_root_url/$field">$field2</a>|;
}
}
return $category_list;
}

has anyone got this to work - I wouldn't have thought a sub-cat submenu was too tricky....