I've been looking for a way to display just subcategories alone. For instance, instead of "Arts: Music: Reggae," I wanted to just have "Music" or "Reggae" alone. I found a mod called "Display related subcats without showing top cats" (at http://gossamer-threads.com/...uest=10364198#157059) and fiddled with it. Low and behold, something I did worked.

It's really easy and you can call it on your template pages.


1. In nph-build.cgi, under sub build_category_pages, find:

$title_linked = &build_linked_title ($cat);
$title = &build_unlinked_title ($cat);
$total = ($#{$links{$cat}} + 1) / ($#db_cols + 1);
$category_name = $cat;
$category_name_escaped = &urlencode ($cat);
$category_clean = &build_clean ($cat);

Change to:

$last_title = &build_last_title ($cat);
$title_linked = &build_linked_title ($cat);
$title = &build_unlinked_title ($cat);
$total = ($#{$links{$cat}} + 1) / ($#db_cols + 1);
$category_name = $cat;
$category_name_escaped = &urlencode ($cat);
$category_clean = &build_clean ($cat);


2. Then, below sub build_linked_title, add this new sub (from the thread above):

##############Begin Last Title Mod #######
sub build_last_title {
# --------------------------------------------------------
# Returns a string of the current category broken up
# by section, with the last part to the respective section.
# copy of build_linked_title
my $input = shift;
my (@dirs, $dir, $output, $path, $last, $lasttitle);
@dirs = split (/\//, $input);
$last = &build_clean(pop @dirs);
$output = qq||;
foreach $dir (@dirs) {
$path .= "/$dir";
$dir = &build_clean ($dir);
$output .= qq||;
}
$output .= " $last";
return $output;
}
###############End Last Title Mod #######


3. Whichever template you want only subcategories alone on, you have to add it to the globals in site_html_templates. For instance, I wanted to use it on my category.html template. So in site_html_templates, under sub site_html_category, I added:

last_title => $last_title,

above

category_name => $category_name,

4. Now you can call it with the tag <%last_title%> on your template.

Pretty easy, huh? Thanks, nowidid and Bobb Menk, who came up with the original mod.

Kathy