VM3 - Editing product navigation

[ioncap]

Hello again dear people!

_{joomla! version: 3.4.1
Virtuemart version: 3.0.8}

I have a fresh new problem, so let's dive in the details:
Virtuemart has some awesome user functionality build in, like for instance the product navigation (previous product, next product).
example
Pretty cool right? well the layout looks lame, but that ain't the point at this moment. What i am trying to accomplish is this same navigation for categories.
I have tried several things, searched all over the place, made edits in the source files but sadly, none of that helped not even a little bit.
Most of the time i spend editing the product navigation, to get it working with categories, i found the place to implement it, though haven't got it working.

Original product navigation:

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<?php
    // Product Navigation
    if (VmConfig::get('product_navigation', 1)) {
   ?>
        <div class="product-neighbours">
       <?php
       if (!empty($this->product->neighbours ['previous'][0])) {
      $prev_link = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id=' . $this->product->neighbours ['previous'][0] ['virtuemart_product_id'] . '&virtuemart_category_id=' . $this->product->virtuemart_category_id, FALSE);
      echo JHtml::_('link', $prev_link, $this->product->neighbours ['previous'][0]
         ['product_name'], array('rel'=>'prev', 'class' => 'previous-page','data-dynamic-update' => '1'));
       }
       if (!empty($this->product->neighbours ['next'][0])) {
      $next_link = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id=' . $this->product->neighbours ['next'][0] ['virtuemart_product_id'] . '&virtuemart_category_id=' . $this->product->virtuemart_category_id, FALSE);
      echo JHtml::_('link', $next_link, $this->product->neighbours ['next'][0] ['product_name'], array('rel'=>'next','class' => 'next-page','data-dynamic-update' => '1'));
       }
       ?>
       <div class="clear"></div>
        </div>
    <?php } // Product Navigation END
    ?>


Maybe this is answered before, though i haven't found any topic/post concerning this problem.
Anyone any ideas?

Kind regards,
-Ioncap

[jenkinhill]

joomla! version: 3.4.1
Virtuemart version: 3.0.8

Both versions are insecure and should not be used on a live site unless you wish to invite hackers. See http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=118683.0

Much better to play with a current VM version than an old one. Latest stable release is VM3.0.12  and VM3.0.13.4 is probably stable enough for a live site.

[ioncap]

joomla! version: 3.4.1
Virtuemart version: 3.0.8

Both versions are insecure and should not be used on a live site unless you wish to invite hackers. See http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=118683.0

Much better to play with a current VM version than an old one. Latest stable release is VM3.0.12  and VM3.0.13.4 is probably stable enough for a live site.

Hello dear Jenkinhil!

Thank you kindly for your time to reply and reading this, and for the heads-up.
Sadly enough it wont be possible (nothing is impossible though) to update VM and Joomla to a newer and more secure version.
This has something to do with the previous developer of this site, who made a lot of hard-coded changes (same as i am doing now).

The client has a lot of specific changes in mind, and one of his demands would be not to update during this process.
This may sound stupid, or even stubborn on a whole new level, and i agree on this. Though this website needs to be done before the end of this week (yeah, this situation is just great).

Well thanks again for your reply, but i would like to ask again if there is some way to implement this idea for category navigation.

Kind regards and i hope you enjoy your vacation!
-Ioncap

[Ghost]

I don't think categories have neighbors. Thus the code is invalid. See getNeighborProducts function in /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/models/product.php to see how neighbor products work. There is no equivalent for categories.

If you just want to show next/previous category without any specific ordering or filtering, it shouldn't be hard to do though.

[ioncap]

I don't think categories have neighbors. Thus the code is invalid. See getNeighborProducts function in /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/models/product.php to see how neighbor products work. There is no equivalent for categories.

If you just want to show next/previous category without any specific ordering or filtering, it shouldn't be hard to do though.

Dear Ghost,

Thank you kindly for your reply, i will directly take a look at the file and functions.

Kind regards,
-Ioncap

[ioncap]

For people who are interested in following this topic furthermore or maybe perhaps helping if possible: http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=133326.0

[ioncap]

joomla! version: 3.4.1
Virtuemart version: 3.0.8

Both versions are insecure and should not be used on a live site unless you wish to invite hackers. See http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=118683.0

Much better to play with a current VM version than an old one. Latest stable release is VM3.0.12  and VM3.0.13.4 is probably stable enough for a live site.

I updated Joomla and VirtueMart:
J: 3.4.8
VM: 3.0.13.6