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More Category Boxes
for osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2

More Category Boxes 1.0
June 29, 2005
Author: Jared Call
Dignified Contributor: Gregory Baboolal (devosc)

Support for this contribution is provided at: http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=158814


What this contrib does:
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This contribution adds the following features:
- Add up to 10 additional category boxes to the left column, each of which can contain up to 25 admin-selectable top level categories.
- Each new category box may be enabled/disabled.
- The default categories box may be enabled/disabled.
- Each new category box has a customizable name (infobox heading).

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Change catid to cPath so that one file applies to all the categories simpleorganica 18 Apr 2008  

The previous files, I had to put in the category id for the variable catid. Since I have set the product listing box to display after clicking on a specific category, I had to install one file for each category and manually change the catid number

so instead, I went to application_top and copied the code to calculate category number and pasted it into this code to see if it works. So far so good. It automatically gets the

Now you can just use one file to list all the products in the same category instead of making one for each category

follow the installation guide from the first creator

Small fix for Enhancement to work muskokee 17 Mar 2006  
More Category Boxes With images alfher 23 Sep 2005  
More Category Boxes jcall 7 Jul 2005