[ic] How to create [same name] subcategories

[cfm@maine.com]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:50:27AM -0600, John Beima wrote:
> Have "Dog Products" be the area, and "Food" be the category...
> 

You are getting into deep goo.  I suspect the [tree]
tag in new ic might be aimed at this but the key is 
your concept of the categories.

If they are the same data, that is one thing.  If they
are different, it is another.  I sent email to list about
how to categorize items relatively arbitrarily maybe
two months ago.  If you do not need to go more layers
then "area" and "category" sounds like it might work.
If you need to go more layers or cross link they will
not be enough.

DMOZ for example, names the categories:
Dog_Products_Food
Cat_Products_Food
but they also use integer id.

Long term, if you want to go more than a couple of
categories deep and keep any hair on your head you 
need to assign categories id numbers and map to names.

> 
> 
> Quoting "Gina K. Anderson" <gina@sitediva.com>:
> 
> > |How can I create subcategories?
> > 
> > I still haven't bee able to figure out this little problem:
> > 
> > Dog Products 	(main)
> > 	Food		(sub)
> > 	Collars	(sub)
> > 	Toys		(sub)
> > 
> > Cat Products	(main)
> > 	Food		(sub)
> > 	Collars	(sub)
> > 	Toys		(sub)
> > 
> > 
> > I've pretty much thrown IC out of the loop because this is seems to be
> > so
> > difficult. Firstly, the admin needs to differentiate between the Dog
> > Food and
> > Cat Food, so a client can add products to either category without
> > needing to
> > make sure 'cat' or 'dog' is in the name of the product (so a search will
> > turn up
> > the right products-which doesn't always seem to work anyway).
> > 
> > There are lots of stores that have something like this in the admin:
> > 
> > Choose a category to add the product to:
> > 
> > [drop down box lists:]
> > Dog Products
> > Dog Products->Food
> > Cat Products
> > Cat Products->Food
> > 
> > It seems there is something in the data table structure that does not
> > allow this
> > to be done easily. Two people tried to help me out with this, but no
> > solution
> > seemed to work correctly.
> > 
> > Gina
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