Making a link to product_details page corresponding category

Ok i have some links on my homepage that link to the different categories that i have. The links work and all but when the user is taken to the product_details page all the products in that category show, which is how i want it.

My question is: How do i make it so when a user is taken to that particular category the accordian menu on left auto selects that particular category so that it is highlighted and the user can select the sub categories below it without having to click on the main category again... does that make sense?

Basically i want the link from homepage to product_details to also append the JS function that makes the accordian open for the corresponding category on product_details to see the sub categories automatically without having to select the category again.

how can this be done?

this is not supported by the accordion javascript.

the selection in the accordion is triggered on the onlick event of the accordion and cannot be triggered on page load.

ok well almost everything im doing with powerstore isnt supported, but thats just cuz i have a totally custom site that requires a lot of modding of the core engines i use. (powerstore)


So if i was going to code it on my own could i do it like this, is it possible with some customization??

what if i made something append to a query string when the fuses link was clicked like

store/Products_Results.php?Search=1&ProductCategoryID[]=16&action= fuses

then in product_results page put some code like

if(isset($_GET['action'])){
   $onLoadAction = $_GET['action'];

onload = code to made the category specified by $onLoadAction load on page load;
}

would that logic work if i do it right?? would that interfere with the on click event if the user then click on a different category with the query string set like that?

I have looked into trying to add a function to do this on the page load, and have not been successful.


I have not been able to get it to work.

ok, thanks for trying... ill do some research on some javascript forums in the next few days and let everyone know what i find out,

it seems like it should be possible, but im not a JS expert so i could be wrong...

thanks!