Possible to have different category menus?

[Johny.A]

Hello!

It's over seven years since i set up a VM and i'm now wondering...

Is it possible to have different left-side-categorie-menus?

I would like to have the site top menu drop down to have like "Mens clothes" and "Woman clothes" and "Baby clothes"
and when clicked opening VM showing only the selected category in the left category menu tree (with it's sub categories).

Cheers / Johny

[jenkinhill]

You can use normal Joomla menus to do that, a different module for each category. Takes time to set up but gives most control.

[Johny.A]

Thanks jenkinhil,

Great tip, i'll test that 

[GJC Web Design]

and if you have a huge number of cats (as I'm doing it at the mo) I find it easiest/fastest to just edit an exported sql file of a menu item..
dup the imports and just adjust title/slug/path and the cat id and import

leave the id empty

they can come out a bit strange in ordering etc but just use the menu "Rebuild" and it all comes good

[Johny.A]

wow GJC Web Design,

That sounds quite advanced but effective.
I'm not sure i'm skilled enough for such a procedure 

Is it:
1. Export categories from PphpMyAdmin
2. Edit that in a text editor/Dreamweaver or something?
3. Import them back in phpMyAdmin into a newly build menu?

Thanks 

[GJC Web Design]

def not!!!

things like DW can never be used for things like this

NotePad++ is my tool of choice

and export ONE cat MENU that you made.. study the sql query and change just what you need to make new ones

looks like

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INSERT INTO `5ph_menu` (`id`, `menutype`, `title`, `alias`, `note`, `path`, `link`, `type`, `published`, `parent_id`, `level`, `component_id`, `checked_out`, `checked_out_time`, `browserNav`, `access`, `img`, `template_style_id`, `params`, `lft`, `rgt`, `home`, `language`, `client_id`) VALUES
('', 'mainmenu', 'Mediclinics', 'mediclinics', '', 'dispensers/dispensermerken/mediclinics', 'index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=category&virtuemart_category_id=33&virtuemart_manufacturer_id=0&categorylayout=0&showcategory=1&showproducts=1&productsublayout=0', 'component', 1, 164, 3, 10008, 0, '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 0, 1, ' ', 0, '{"menu-anchor_title":"","menu-anchor_css":"","menu_image":"","menu_text":1,"page_title":"","show_page_heading":"","page_heading":"","pageclass_sfx":"","menu-meta_description":"","menu-meta_keywords":"","robots":"","secure":0}', 107, 108, 0, '*', 0),
('', 'mainmenu', 'Mediq O-line', 'mediq-o-line', '', 'dispensers/dispensermerken/mediq-o-line', 'index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=category&virtuemart_category_id=33&virtuemart_manufacturer_id=0&categorylayout=0&showcategory=1&showproducts=1&productsublayout=0', 'component', 1, 164, 3, 10008, 0, '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 0, 1, ' ', 0, '{"menu-anchor_title":"","menu-anchor_css":"","menu_image":"","menu_text":1,"page_title":"","show_page_heading":"","page_heading":"","pageclass_sfx":"","menu-meta_description":"","menu-meta_keywords":"","robots":"","secure":0}', 107, 108, 0, '*', 0);




then import that query back into the DB with phpmyadmin etc

[Johny.A]

Awesome 

I'll definitely going to try your way.

Thanks a lot