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Oct 14, 2002, 9:54 PM
Aizuddin
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How to arrange categories on main list page?
Dear All,

Please take a look at the following:

http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi/blinks/

My problem is that the category links are placed side-by-side.

Can anyone tell me which file to modify in order to get the links to the categories by be placed one-on-top-of-the-other?

For example (list format - this is what i want):

Great Malaysian Blog List

General Blog List

(instead of - side-by-side format)

General Blog List | Great Malaysian Blog List

Thanks to all for your kind assistance.

Peace,
Aizuddin Danian
Oct 14, 2002, 10:35 PM
fuzzy logic
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Oct 14, 2002, 10:35 PM
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Links splits the category links list into two columns. If you'd like your links to be in a single column, then you need to open site_html_templates.pl and modify site_html_print_cat. What needs to be changed should be fairly obvious so you should be able to figure it out on your own.

Philip
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Oct 14, 2002, 11:22 PM
PerlFlunkie
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Oct 14, 2002, 11:22 PM
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If you add more than categories, they will begin to stack up. If you only want the two, remove the code that looks like this from the site_html_templates:

Code:
my ($half) = int (($#subcat+2) / 2);
$columns = '2'; #number of columns
my ($half) = int (($#subcat+2) / $columns);
$numlinks = $stats{"$subcat"}[0];
$mod = $stats{"$subcat"}[1];
# if ($i == $half) {
# $output .= qq~</td><td valign="top">\n~;
$i++;
# }
Good luck!


Leonard
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Oct 14, 2002, 11:28 PM
Aizuddin
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Oct 14, 2002, 11:28 PM
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Dear All,

Thanks for the help. I've gotten it to work the way i want. Goto http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi/blist/ to check it out.

My final code for site_html_template.pl is:

Code:
my (@subcat) = @_;
my ($url, $numlinks, $mod, $subcat, $category_name, $description, $output, $i);
my ($half) = int (($#subcat+2) / 2);

# Print Header.
$output = qq|<div class="margin"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top">\n|;

foreach $subcat (sort @subcat) {
($description) = @{$category{$subcat}}[2];

# First let's get the name, number of links, and last modified date...
$url = "$build_root_url/" . &urlencode($subcat) . "/";
if ($subcat =~ m,.*/([^/]+)$,) { $category_name = &build_clean($1); } else { $category_name = &build_clean($subcat); }
$numlinks = $stats{"$subcat"}[0];
$mod = $stats{"$subcat"}[1]; # We check to see if we are half way through, if so we stop this table cell
# and begin a new one (this lets us have category names in two columns).
if ($i == $half) {
$output .= qq|</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">\n|;
}
$i++;

# Then we print out the name linked, new if it's new, and popular if its popular.
$output .= qq|<dl><dt><strong><a href="$url">$category_name</a></strong><small class="numlinks">($numlinks)</small> |;
$output .= qq|<small><sup class="new">new</sup></small>| if (&days_old($mod) < $db_new_cutoff);
$output .= qq|</dt>|;
$output .= qq|<br><span>$description </span>| if (!($description =~ /^[\s\n]*$/));
$output .= qq|</dl>|;
}



# Don't forget to end the unordered list..
$output .= "</td></tr></table></div>\n";
return $output;