Improve your dir_categs_edit for PhpLD 2.x

As you know:　PhpLd is an excellent PHP directory script, and we can get its free version for 2.x. but it's a tired thing to add many categories to your directory. the problem is when you complete a category inserting, you have to choose the parent category again for the next category, at the most time, it's same to the previous one. and another question is: when you enable urlrewrite, you have to replace the " " to "_" from the title every times. it sure is an anoying thing I think.

Solution:
Actully, you can modify the php code to solve these questions, but at this moment, we use Javascript to try to solve them now.

Open the "dir_categs_edit.tpl" located at "/template/admin/" by notepad or other editor you'd like, find this line:

"{validate form="dir_categs_edit" id="v_TITLE_URL_U" message=$smarty.capture.url_title_not_unique}"

Code (markup):

add some code below:

<script type="text/javascript">
{literal}
title = document.getElementsByName("TITLE")[0];

title.onchange = function(){
    title.value = title.value.replace(/^\s*|\s*$/g,"");
    titleUrl = document.getElementsByName("TITLE_URL")[0];
    titleUrl.value = this.value.replace(/ /ig,'_');
}
{/literal}
</script>

Code (markup):

and this line:

{html_options options=$categs selected=$PARENT_ID name="PARENT_ID"}

Code (markup):

add some code below:

<script type="text/javascript">
{literal}
function GetParam(name)
{
  var start=location.search.indexOf("?"+name+"=");
  if (start<0) start=location.search.indexOf("&"+name+"=");
  if (start<0) return '';
  start += name.length+2;
  var end=location.search.indexOf("&",start)-1;
  if (end<0) end=location.search.length;
  var result=location.search.substring(start,end);
  var result='';
  for(var i=start;i<=end;i++) {
    var c=location.search.charAt(i);
    result=result+(c=='+'?' ':c);
  }
  return unescape(result);
}

pCategory = document.getElementsByName("PARENT_ID")[0];
pCategory.onchange = function(){
    if(location.href.indexOf("&parent=")==-1)
        document.forms[0].action = location.href + "&parent=" + pCategory.value;
    else
        document.forms[0].action = location.href.replace(/parent=\d+/,"parent=" + pCategory.value);
}
try{
 pCategory.value = GetParam("parent");
}catch(e){alert(e.description);}
{/literal}
</script>

Code (markup):

OK, done!
not try to add a new category, when you type the CategoryName, you'll find the titleUrl textbox has been filled automaticlly and when you finish inserting, you'll find the url on addressbar has been added a parameter: parent=1 and the parent dropdownlist has been selected to the previous one.

Enjoy!

if this code is useful, welcome to submit your directories to Open Directory. check this our: opdir.com.

 

You can add 700 category to your directory just by one click.
http://www.directoryspy.com/downloads/category-dumps/

It's really nice script.

Please note this is not my site.

 

This is entirely true, but bare in mind that you'll have the same structure another thousand directories have, meaning there's no uniqueness there.

 

do you mean "directoryspy.com"?