Question

With my limited knowledge of Magento and PHP I have found myself possibly on track but still missing the mark and hope someone can help me.

I currently have 4 categories (fibre optics, networking, test and measure, promotions) nested in the root category. The root category is a drop down menu item named ‘products’ in the main navigation.

e.g. Home | Products | Clarence | Contact Us

I would like to change this so that these 4 categories are displayed in the main navigation and their child categories are displayed as a drop down menu on rollover.

e.g. Home | Fibre Optics | Networking | Test and Measure | Promotions | Contact Us

I have tried editing the top.phtml file to display this, however I cannot nut it out.

Is anyone able to help me with this, or be able to point me in the right direction?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

I have done something like this. In your case, make ‘Product’ Category as sub-category of the ‘Default Category’. Add the other categories like fibre optics, networking, etc. under sub-category of ‘Products’.

Now, edit in your app/design/frontend/base/default/template/page/html/topmenu.phtml. Include your new menu in it : Ex:

<ul>
<li><a href="<?php echo $this->getBaseUrl() ?>"><span>Home</span></a></li>
<li><?php echo $_menu ?></li>   
<li><a href="<?php echo $this->getBaseUrl() ?>contacts"><span>Contact Us</span></a>
</ul>

Hope you got a clue now….

Well, if you have the menu to be in the following way:
e.g. Home | Fibre Optics | Networking | Test and Measure | Promotions | Contact Us

change the ‘Default Category’ as ‘Product’ and Fibre Optics, Networking, etc as sub-categoies. I am not sure, changing the name of Default Category name is the correct way, but this will work..