Item Submit Form - Category Selection List

Hello again. I'm almost done with the front-end part of my project. However, I want to redo the category selection list in the front-end form. To do this, I really have only two options - either hack the actual code that generates the selection list, or somehow override this in form.php

Could you please tell me what Flexicontent file generates this code?

In lieu of that (as I really hate hacking core code for many reasons), is there a way I can override this somehow with code in the actual form.php file?

And just as an FYI - the main issue with the way the category selection list is laid out in the frontend is that there is no easy way for me to get jQuery to hook into it. If the category/subcategories were generated using nested unordered lists instead, jQuery plugins could readily take care of pretty much everything I need (i.e., alphabetizing, layout, etc.).

Thanks again!

You can create a template override for the flexicontent items view, for tmpl file form.php ...

Create folder
'templates/mytemplate/html/com_flexicontent/items/'

inside the above folder copy file:
'components/com_flexicontent/view/items/tmpl/form.php'

Edit and customize the file.

Regards

Great!

I realize that there is recursion used to build the selection list. By the time the list hits the form, it looks like it is already fully formatted (I did a print_r to look at the construct). Where is the code I would need to generate the category list? Thanks again!

You are in luck, the code you want is exactly at the start of the form.php

The variable $cid is string of comma separated allowed categories ids, and $globalcats contains all categories.

Just print_r these variables and also alter the existing code inside if ($cid) : ... endif to achieve what you need.

Regards

Great thanks