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Vertical alphabetical category listing

qwqw
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Posted 08/13/05 - 01:11 PM:	#1
I want to list my category vertically by geographical names. Currently I can only put categories alphabetically only horizontally ( I use 3-4 columns) Alabama ---- Alaska ------- Arizona Arkanzas ----California ----Colorado But I want to put them vertically as most readers will read columns vertically: Alabama --- Arkanzas Alaska --- California Arizona --- Colorado Of course I can rename all of them in the vertical order but I' will be adding more categories ( for cities) and I would not be able to rename the categories all the time to fit a category in it's alphabetical spot. So how do put all categories alphabetically vertically? Thanks Edited by qwqw on 08/13/05 - 03:29 PM

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Posted 08/14/05 - 03:34 AM:	#2
Possibly some sort of container <div> could make things stack vertically, but table cells aren't really made to allow that. I guess you could set the columns to 0, remove all the table-related html, then do something along the lines of <div style="float: left; width: 45%;"> stuff <?php if ({CATNUMBER} == int({CATNUMSUB} / 2)) { echo '</div><div style="float: left; width: 45%;">'; } ?> </div> presuming I remembered the template var for the number of subcategories correctly there.
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qwqw
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Posted 08/18/05 - 11:50 AM:	#3
Thanks. Any chance to be more specific? I did not understand a thing. I'm just curious that for 3+ years of wsn links' life no one ever wondered about such a simple thing? is there any easy way to it? may it could be one of the features: place categories horisontally or vertically? I actually managed to place the categories alphabetically vertically by using CATPROIRITY with default template but it is a very time consuming and complecated way. More over you have re-assign the priorities all the time if you add or remove any categories. There must be an easy way of doing this. Edited by qwqw on 08/18/05 - 12:16 PM

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Posted 08/18/05 - 07:12 PM:	#4
It's a possible future feature, if I decide to get rid of most of the tables and transition everything to <div>s. That wouldn't be until a 4.0 version most likely though. For now you have to know HTML to do it.
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ingenious22
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Posted 07/10/07 - 06:29 AM:

I did this by following the tip in the manual KB. It didn't work...but I used the idea and made a modification/verticalcol.php file:

<?php 
function verticalcol($catnumber,$totalcats){ 
	$newcol = 0; 
	if (($catnumber-1 == (int)($totalcats / 4)) OR ($catnumber-1 == (int)(2* $totalcats / 4)) OR ($catnumber-1 == (int)(3*$totalcats / 4))){  
		$newcol = 1; 
	} 
	 
	return $newcol; 
} 
?>

and in main.tpl, I removed the tables and put

<IF {FUNC_VERTICALCOL[{CATNUMBER} <,> {TOTALCATS}]}></ul></div><div class="column"><ul></IF>

where I wanted to start a new column (it closes the div an starts a new one, use css float:left on .column to make them side by side).

My question: {TOTALCATS} gives the number of cats in the whole directory, whats the variable for the number of cats being displayed on the page?

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Posted 07/13/07 - 06:15 AM:	#6
You're limiting the number of categories per page? You can use <?php if ({TOTALCATS} > {CATSPERPAGE}) echo {CATSPERPAGE}; else echo {TOTALCATS}; ?>
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