New version of VirtueMart Boh! Category Filter module for Joomla! 2.5/Virtuemart 2.x

New in this version:

  • added categories ordering in dropdown list
  • added possibility use AJAX for load subitems
  • added caching
  • small optimization :)

Remarks about caching:
If you want use caching, to all worked correctly, you need to enable caching in general settings Joomla! and disable it in the settings of this module.

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52 Comments to “ VirtueMart Boh! Category Filter (2012.08.11) ”

  1. Thomas says:

    Nice optimalization! I have one question about the filter process.

    I have 3 different levels (so 3 dropdown menu’s)
    When the user select only the first level no products will show up. I disabled the setting “show children category” because I don’t want to show tumbnails of the category.

    So for example

    Camera filter
    -By product
    -By device
    –Device1 (LVL1)
    —Brand1 (LVL2)
    —-Type1 (LVL3)
    —-Type2 (LVL3)
    –Device2 (LVL1)
    —Brand2 (LVL2)
    …………….

    If someone select only LVL1 it should display all products from all categories of this level.
    Is this possible.

    Looking forward to your reaction!

    • Fedik says:

      it depend from VirtueMart configuration … basically the module do nothing big, only tell VirtueMart which category need to display, so disable “Show Children Category” should help … or try edit the template for the category

  2. Thomas says:

    Hi Fedik, you’re totally right. More people are looking for this. I found some topics on VM forum but there is still not a solution build to fix this for VM 2.0..

    Hopefully in future someone will write a short script to get this done :)

  3. Chris says:

    Hi, this is a nice module indeed!

    Just a question: we want to remove the select_item= from URL, as it is not helping our SEO and also doesn’t seem to be that necessary, is this possible?

    Also, would it be possible for Long-name categories to have a wrap effect so that the name won’t go beyond the module borders??

    Thanks in advance!

    Chris

    • Fedik says:

      select_item= for SEO have no any sense … if you want you can try hide it, edit default.php find there method=”get” and change to method=”post” … but as I told for SEO it have no any sense cause the crawlers not see it

      for Long-name of categories try set a fixed width for < select > … but maybe in future I will try add truncate for this

      • Chris says:

        Thank you for your reply;

        Indeed ‘post’ will hide the url, but it is better to have the url recorded as we needed for statistical reasons. The question is:

        Is “select_item=..” important for displaying the results? If not, how can we remove only this block from the url?

        We’d appreciate your help also with the multilanguage results and word wrapping :)

        Rgrds,
        Chris

      • Fedik says:

        “select_item=..” it not important for the results, but it because “sending the form” … it not so simple to remove, otherwise I would have deleted it :)

      • Chris says:

        Ok Fedir, i understand, i will try also to find a solution also! If you have any news i’d appreciate :)

        For the multilingual problem, we managed to solve it, there was no problem with your plugin. The problem was in Joomla’s configuration.php (The $live_site variable must be empty!) and now the results work in all languages.

        You can see it in action here:

        http://www.quality-tuning.gr
        http://www.quality-tuning.co.uk

        Rgrds,
        Chris

      • Fedik says:

        thanks for this trick! because I just tried on the local installation and was confused cause all works :)

  4. Chris says:

    Hello again!

    Sorry about asking again, but we really need to remove the “select_item=..” because it is not possible to have clear statistics of the landing pages, there are so many variations of the same landing page! Our stats are a mess :(

    I understand it is not easy, but not impossible. Please give us a cost for modifying the plugin, we need this fix badly!!!

    Regards,
    Chris

  5. Collin says:

    Hello Fedik,
    Can you change the module in – li – .
    I asked this at the page:Hierarchical Category Filter .

    But I need the code instead of – option – to – li –
    Can you fix it for me? How must does it cost if made one for me?
    So I can change every – li – with the css.
    You can mail it to me. See my emailadres.

    Collin

    • Fedik says:

      current scrip can work only with options, make it work with different tag is difficult .. base HTML logic between < options > and < li > is very different

  6. Collin says:

    Hello Fedik, thanx rof the reply.Can you make it for us? And how must does it cost.
    Please send us bij mail
    Collin

  7. Tommy says:

    It works perfect ! But i have one Question. It is possible to scroll the select ? If i have much Categories, i want only show 10 in the windows and then scroll.
    Sorry for my bad english ;-)

    • Fedik says:

      unfortunately HTML do not allow this or I not know about how to do it, if I right understand you question

      • Tommy says:

        i mean if in the first categorie are 30 entries. when i klick on the arrow, comes the 30 entries at he bottom. and in this windows should only 10 entries displayed with a scrollbar on the right side.
        i had read something about “overflow-y:scroll;” in html-sites, but i don’t know where i must change the code.
        greets Tommy

      • Fedik says:

        no, it will not works for < option > < select > tags

  8. Collin says:

    HI fedik
    I asked you if you can make a li menu at
    10.01.2013 at 17:33
    Can you and how must dows it cost?

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