You may wish to write a blog and publish it in your online TomatoCart store. It’s possible to build a similar blog menu and show it both in glass gray and bootstrap template.

Figure 1. Blog menu in glass gray template

Figure 2. Blog menu in bootstrap template

Now, let me teach you how to apply it for your store.

Step 1. Download blog-menu.zip from dropbox.

Step 2. Unzip it and copy the templates fold into your TomatoCart root directory.

Step 3. Add following language definition under admin panel > Definitions > Languages.

• top_blog_menu: Blog

Step 4. Create blog sub-menus under admin panel > Content > Article Categories.

Note: if you are using glass_gray template, you have to do following fifth step.

Step 5. Open index.php under templates > glass_gray fold and then find following code in it:

<?php
/*
  $Id: index.php $
  TomatoCart Open Source Shopping Cart Solutions
  http://www.tomatocart.com

  Copyright (c) 2009 Wuxi Elootec Technology Co., Ltd;  Copyright (c) 2006 osCommerce

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (1991)
  as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*/
?>

Please replace it with following code:

<?php
/*
  $Id: index.php $
  TomatoCart Open Source Shopping Cart Solutions
  http://www.tomatocart.com

  Copyright (c) 2009 Wuxi Elootec Technology Co., Ltd;  Copyright (c) 2006 osCommerce

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (1991)
  as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*/

include('blogmenu/helper.php');
?>

Find following code:

<ul id="navigation">
        <?php
          echo '<li ' . ($osC_Template->getGroup() == 'index' && $osC_Template->getModule() == 'index' ? 'class="navVisited"' : null) . '><span class="navLeftHook"> </span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'index'), $osC_Language->get('home')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>' .
               '<li ' . ($osC_Template->getGroup() == 'products' && $osC_Template->getModule() == 'new' ? 'class="navVisited"' : null) . '><span class="navLeftHook"> </span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCTS, 'new'), $osC_Language->get('new_products')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>';
  
          if ($osC_Customer->isLoggedOn()) {
            echo '<li><span class="navLeftHook"></span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, 'logoff', 'SSL'), $osC_Language->get('sign_out')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>';
          }
  
          echo '<li ' . ($osC_Template->getGroup() == 'account' ? 'class="navVisited"' : null) . '><span class="navLeftHook"> </span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, null, 'SSL'), $osC_Language->get('my_account')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>' .
               '<li ' . ($osC_Template->getGroup() == 'checkout' ? 'class="navVisited"' : null) . '><span class="navLeftHook"> </span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT, 'checkout', 'SSL'), $osC_Language->get('checkout')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>' .
               '<li ' . ($osC_Template->getGroup() == 'info' && $osC_Template->getModule() == 'contact' ? 'class="navVisited"' : null) . '><span class="navLeftHook"> </span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_INFO, 'contact'), $osC_Language->get('contact_us')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>';
        ?>
      </ul>

Please replace it with:

<ul id="navigation">
        <?php
          echo '<li ' . ($osC_Template->getGroup() == 'index' && $osC_Template->getModule() == 'index' ? 'class="navVisited"' : null) . '><span class="navLeftHook"> </span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'index'), $osC_Language->get('home')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>' .
               '<li ' . ($osC_Template->getGroup() == 'products' && $osC_Template->getModule() == 'new' ? 'class="navVisited"' : null) . '><span class="navLeftHook"> </span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCTS, 'new'), $osC_Language->get('new_products')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>';
  
          if ($osC_Customer->isLoggedOn()) {
            echo '<li><span class="navLeftHook"></span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, 'logoff', 'SSL'), $osC_Language->get('sign_out')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>';
          }
  
          echo '<li ' . ($osC_Template->getGroup() == 'account' ? 'class="navVisited"' : null) . '><span class="navLeftHook"> </span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, null, 'SSL'), $osC_Language->get('my_account')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>' .
               '<li ' . ($osC_Template->getGroup() == 'checkout' ? 'class="navVisited"' : null) . '><span class="navLeftHook"> </span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT, 'checkout', 'SSL'), $osC_Language->get('checkout')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>' .
               '<li ' . ($osC_Template->getGroup() == 'info' && $osC_Template->getModule() == 'contact' ? 'class="navVisited"' : null) . '><span class="navLeftHook"> </span>' . osc_link_object(osc_href_link(FILENAME_INFO, 'contact'), $osC_Language->get('contact_us')) . '<span class="navHoverDownHook"> </span><span class="navRightHook"> </span></li>';
        ?>
        
        <?php echo build_blog_dropdown_menu(); ?>
      </ul>

Done. Enjoy it.

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