Clapboard - Full Frontal Nerdity

So I have navigation.  I like it.  I dont like that when you click on the category page, subcategories re-display between the page name and the page description. After reading around and around the internet, I discovered that if you just delete the categoryChildlist.tpl.php from /com_virtuemart/themes/default/templates/common the bad links go away.

Now, Ive tested in FF, IE & Chrome and its fine, but I have a fear that pulling the file without pulling all references in the site to it might cause trouble, so Ill keep this in mind going forward.

Update:
It turns out that theres a way to tell the cart not to re-print the categories.  I found it yesterday, so I put categoryChildlist.tpl.php back just now as a test, and it seemed to work.  So yay for that.  Ill update again when I re-find the place to do that change.

I just decided that I needed to Bulk Change the Flypage info in my already-created categories, so I edited the MySQL database.  I bet theres a better way than that, but I can always use more familiarity with MySQL.  I tried briefly to learn how to bulk edit columns in MySQL, but I ended up just changing the 80ish rows myself.  Weak.

Something to consider going forward.

Turns out that the syntax is very simple - I can just use the following command to change, say, the number of products in a row:

UPDATE jos_vm_category SET products_per_row=3

There was a button labeled "Ask the seller a question" that I didnt need in the product page, so I wanted to get rid of it.  All it takes is removing the following snippet of code from the flypage template (in my case flypage_images):

    <tr>

      <td colspan="2">

          <a class="button" onclick="protoPop( this.href.replace(/index.php/, index2.php ) + &only_page=1, { modal: true,width:640,height:480 } );return false;" href="<?php echo $ask_seller_href ?>"><?php echo $ask_seller_text ?></a>

      </td>

    </tr>

Thats it. Pretty sweet.

Ive been doing hacks that are too complex to really document in the timeframe Ive been given, but I wanted to come and make note of the fact that Ive been working hard on the layout, while I had a guy in India from ScriptLance write special code to allow for weights to be added to properties.

Specifically to this post, Ive removed the User4 Module, which is lame, but will be cool when I want another module to put somewhere.  Maybe a giant banner across the top.

Anyway, this code

<!-- BEGIN: MAIN NAVIGATION -->

<?php if ($tmpTools->getParam(ja_menu) != none) : ?>

<div id="ja-mainnavwrap">



  <div id="ja-mainnav" class="clearfix">

        <?php if ($jamenu) $jamenu->genMenu (0); ?>



          <?php if ($this->countModules(user4)) { ?>

    <div id="ja-search">

        <jdoc:include type="modules" name="user4" style="raw" />

    </div>

    <?php } ?>



    </div>



</div>

<?php endif; ?>

<!-- END: MAIN NAVIGATION -->

is the complex main nav that Im working on positioning right now, and Im going to get rid of the search option here entirely.  To do that, Im pulling this bit of that code:

          <?php if ($this->countModules(user4)) { ?>

    <div id="ja-search">

        <jdoc:include type="modules" name="user4" style="raw" />

    </div>

    <?php } ?>

It seems to work, so were going to just go with that for now.