Disabling parent categories in drop down list

[jay275]

One of my big frustrations (I'm sure everyone else too) is users submitting to parent categories instead of the proper subcategory. It would be great if there was a mod to only allow users to select subcategories and not parents in the drop down list during submit. Has anyone does this before? Thanks!

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[anon]

Yes, it's doable.

Actually, I had to submit a site to a 'base' category (shopping) because do not possess the appropriate sub-cat, but the 'base' was appropriate.


here is a suggestive alternative:

Get a 'suggest category' up and running. While It won't stop people from submitting to the base category, It will help people such as myself who do submit appropriately into a sub-cats, as long as the sub-cat exists.

Rob

[Optimit]

Another solution or possible help would be to disable the submit link button on the main page. that way, they are forced to at least start searching for a category. If they do that, then the category they are in when they hit submit will be selected by default.

Would be a simple fix, let us know if you want to try it.

[Fred]

how would you do this then?...

[anon]

(and no, it's not exactly what you want. But it's at least a start for you.)

Opti, it's not just disabling from the homepage, like the link posted above.
He wants Parent Cats to not have the ability to be submitted to.

Rob

[jay275]

Thanks Opti, that would be a simple fix, but not exactly what I am trying to accomplish. I want to just disable parent Cats in the drop down list as Anon said. I also had "Suggest Category" on the site for a while, but I changed to the contact form instead. I have been messing around with the functions.php, but no luck yet. Then again, I'm no PHP wiz :)

[anon]

jay, i am no php wiz either. no prior experience (other than a test site i made) with php.

I'm pretty sure you can do it.

goto {malware warning found at this link - removed} and try to submit to a 'parent' category.

That's what you're after right?

(yea opti, it's part of deep link mod too :lol: )

Rob

[jay275]

Rob, Not exactly what I am trying. I want to have the standard drop down from phpld with the parents just greyed out or disabled somehow. You have an awesome looking directory by the way. I'm jealous :)

[Optimit]

if you want a directory like his, I know someone that will build an exact copy for only $40.

LMAO Just kidding Rob

[anon]

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