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Portalsuite Function „PrintCategoryTree“

Please enter the following categories in the Portalsuite Administration Center:

Please enter the following categories in the Portalsuite Administration Center:

Afterwards change the test template as follows and take a look at the result:

Template test template:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor=#ffffff>
This is a test template.
<? echo (date ("d.m.Y")); ?><br>
<br>
<? PrintCategoryTree (); ?>
</body>
</html>

The function PrintCategoryTree includes a lot of HTML code. In every case the result is a structured reproduction of the categories. The category names are defined as links you can click on.

If you simply change a category, e. g., from "Service" to "Servicing" and reload the preview, you see how simple changes can be done without changing the HTML code, since the Portalsuite assembles the page anew each time.

If you click on one of the category names the same page appears anew which means that apparently nothing was changed. The reason why nothing happens at all is simply that we made no further definitions in the templates. In the next step we apply a second template "product page" and allocate it to the category "Products" in the mapping:

Template product page:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor=#ffffff>
This is the product template.
<? echo (date ("d.m.Y")); ?><br>
<br>
<? PrintCategoryTree (); ?>
</body>
</html>

Please click again on the category "products" in the preview, the new template should be used now.

Change both templates in the next step as follows:

Template test template:

<html>
<head></head>

<body bgcolor=#ffffff>
<table border=1><tr><td valign=top>
<? PrintCategoryTree (); ?>
</td><td valign=top>
This is a test template.<br>
Current: <? echo (date ("d.m.Y")); ?>
</td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>

Template product page:

<html>
<head></head>

<body bgcolor=#ffffff>
<table border=1><tr><td valign=top>
<? PrintCategoryTree (); ?>
</td><td valign=top>
This is the product page.<br>
</td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>

In the preview you see now in the left table column the menu with the categories, in the right column the text with the current date and time. If you click onto "Products" on the left a similar page appears, in the right column the text "This is the product page" appears. There the second template has been used by the Portalsuite. If you again click onto another category except products, the home page appears again. It would be no problem to apply a template for each category.

This explains also the template category mapping. With the mapping you define for which category a template is responsible for. Depending on the category we are in the corresponding template is used. If there is no explicit template defined for a category, the so-called standard template is used by default. The category mapping is a very important building block of the Portalsuite template conception.

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