Understanding How Categories Are Displayed

ProductCart supports 3 category display settings, as described in the Display Settings area of the Control Panel. Here is a technical explanation of how they are handled.

The main file is called viewcategories.asp, which receives the category ID via a querystring.

The file pcShowCategoryFeatured.asp handles the display of the featured category. This is a subcategory that you want to highlight, selected on the Edit Category page by using the feature Select a sub-category to be displayed as the featured category (a drop-down lists all subcategories).

The source code that handles the display of subcategories in a drop-down or when they are displayed without images (simple text links) is located directly on the viewcategories.asp page.

When categories are displayed with images, the page uses two include files.

• pcShowCategoryH.asp handles the display when there is more than 1 category per row
• pcShowCategoryP.asp handles the display when there is only 1 category per row