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byanjingjr, March 16, 2012
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HikaShop
I tried to install HikaShop 1.5.6 on Joomla 2.5.2 last Monday. Then I tried to make my product categories (and sub-categories) on the left column. There are 3 choices to select: No child, All direct sub-categories and All sub-categories. I tried one-by-one but none of the 3 choices gave what I want.

The first choice shows all categories and sub-categories as top-level (wrong ul li structure). The second choice shows only the sub-level categories (no top-level categories are shown). The third choice gave the same like the second choice except all in one line/row.

Even worse and confusing, every time I tried to select either one of the 3 choices, the module automatically created a new module named "Associated products listing for category listing menu". The same thing happened when I tried to create Manufacturer module, Best Sales module, Featured Product module, etc .So, under my Module Manager I have like more than 30 those long-name modules. I have no idea what they are used for. It only makes my Module Manager looks ugly.

Another problem, when I accessed from front-end, then looked at the HTML Source Code (View - Source if you are using IE), I saw a lot of inline stylings. These make me pulling my hair when I tried to customize the stylings. Because every time I customize the CSS on my default template.css, it got overriden by those inline stylings.

Another problem, when I put the module in an article using loadposition, the dollar sign and the non-decimal digits are missing leaving only the decimal digits on the product price. My time is already squeezed and can't do anymore trials and errors.
Owner's reply

Thank you for your review,

You should have contacted us or asked on our forum for help. We could have helped you understand what was wrong.

Regarding the $ sign missing, the problem is that you have another extension which tries to replace ${text} to something else on your website. And since your prices start with $, this happens. It is not a problem in HikaShop.
One simple solution is to edit your currency via the menu System->Currencies and just turn on the option "Symbol and positive value space separation" which will add a space between the $ and the price, avoiding that problem.

Indeed, some inline styling is added by HikaShop. As you can see in the interface, you have lots of display options for you to configure HikaShop without having to resort to CSS for simple tasks like the background color. Since these options will be changed by the user, they are added with inline styling. But you can always override them with the !important feature of CSS should you not want to use the options provided.

Making a category listing module in two levels can by done quite easily with the options available in HikaShop. In fact, if you look at our demo website, we have one configured on the left area. You could have taken example on its options in order to configure yours on the same way.