Replicating store product menu on site home page

I have the cart installed in its own powerstore folder. On the site home page, I have an area where I want to insert just the product menu so customers can pick out a category from that menu and go immediately to the cart for that category. If you can point me in the right direction of which elements I should do for an include, I'd appreciate it. I don't want to do just a one button tied to search all products (/products_results.php) but rather capture the menu itself.

Open up the file:

webassist/themes/[your theme]/plugins/plugins.php

Find thes lines:

} else  {

    $WASideMenu = new WA_Include('../../../plugins/side_menu/nested_accordion/sidemenu.php');

    require($WASideMenu->BaseName);

    $WASideMenu->Initialize(true);

}

move it out of the else statement, so the code becomes:

}

$WASideMenu = new WA_Include('../../../plugins/side_menu/nested_accordion/sidemenu.php');

require($WASideMenu->BaseName);

$WASideMenu->Initialize(true);

Now open your index page: webassist/themes/[your theme]/templates/index.dwt.php

in the header just below the <title> tag make sure this code exists:

<?php echo(isset($WASideMenu)?$WASideMenu->Head:""); ?>

Then wherever you want the menu to appear add:

<?php echo($WASideMenu->Body); ?>

Awesome! I will give a try! Thank you so much!

probably wrong guess... I'll try

no the closer is above. You removed the else { opener and the closer } below... so it should be balanced if you followed my instructions.

thank you... I will give it a try

I believe I followed the instructions but the home page (outside of the cart) is not showing the menu. Wouldn't I need some connections related to the cart to get it to show up?

I did a tester page, and added this, which resulted in a partial solution. It is now listing the items in the catalog, but not the colors or the click throughs, so I'm not there yet.

I added:

<?php

require_once('PowerStore/webassist/themes/theme_open.php');

$WAIncludeContent = new WA_Include(__FILE__);

?>

<?php

$WACatalogResults = new WA_Include('PowerStore/webassist/plugins/catalog/themed/results.php');

require($WACatalogResults->BaseName);

$WACatalogResults->Initialize(true);

?>

I'll need FTP access to debug and look at the code on the page.

Thanks Ray, but I don't want to pester you. I'll just mock up a red menu and link to each cat. Not that big of a deal. I just thought there might be a shortcut. Thank you though!