Making custom php/tpl pages

[dawb]

Hi,

 

I am looking to create a page that lists all of the sites top level categories. I have tried making a page that uses the homeCategories module php code but this is limited by the number of categories specified in the admin section.

 

Are there any tutorials about making custom tpl and php function pages. I have had a search but cannot seem to find any on the site. I simply want to pull all of the categories from the site and display them in a list similar to how the products already are on a seperate page called categories.php for example.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

[CartExpert.net]

Hi!

 

Create an instance of 'category' class, with the ID of home category. Then you can use the 'getSubCategories' functions to get the categories.

 

$home_cat = new Category(1, $cookie->id_lang);
$all_categories = $home_cat->getSubCategories($cookie->id_lang);

[dawb]

Thanks for the quick response, managed to get it working with that.Cheers