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How to repeat:
1. Attach a product to >1 categories
2. Delete one or more categories from step 1
3. See 'null' categories are shown in the Product's Relations

We think, if some category has been deleted, it should be removed from the product Relations completely, rather than showing it as 'null'.
The latter logic might possibly affect something somewhere, that's why we're asking to check it in code ..
Thanks!

You rock!  We have copied the raw product_listing.tpl file from the
   raw.github.com/abantecart/abantecart-src/f5ca95a7b72c7ae490e0deb9e6d2d3cf0c3eb1de/public_html/storefront/view/default_html5/template/pages/product/product_listing.tpl
  over to  public_html/storefront/view/default_html5/template/pages/product/product_listing.tpl
and the 'Write review' got hidden! Thanks heaps!

[Write review]

Dear Abantecart,

Is there some setting to hide the 'Write review' part (to the right of the 'View') in a small pop-up that shows up when your hovering mouse cursor over a product in store?   In our store we are not planning to offer the Reviewing thing at all..
It's great to still have the "View" part showing up (as not every person may know she can see details on product by clicking on it) but if we have to disable the pop-up completely, we will do that  if that's how it works.

Thank you for the great web store application!

+1
experiencing similar warnings in log as well:

2013-10-14 21:38:42 -
2013-10-14 21:39:12 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.1.7 Division by zero in <b>/home/user1/public_html/core/helper/utils.php</b> on line <b>624</b>
2013-10-14 21:39:23 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.1.7 Division by zero in <b>/home/user1/public_html/core/helper/utils.php</b> on line <b>624</b>
2013-10-14 21:39:30 -
...
2013-10-15 10:21:42 -
2013-10-15 10:21:46 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.1.7 Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in <b>/home/user1/public_html/admin/controller/responses/listing_grid/blocks_grid.php</b> on line <b>71</b>
2013-10-15 10:21:57 -

Is this something to be wary about,  any specific reason it's happening?

[Here is a related feature that doesn't seem to be possible to achieve even with hacks like the above:]

Dear Abantecart,

Thanks for the great HTML5 template, we do like its look and feel. There is, however, some room for improvements.

As we know, a top category thumb image that is shown to customers on the front page drop-down menu is by design an image of the last sub-category of a given top category that you point your mouse over.  This behavior is fixed and may not be suitable to all shops.

At the same time, we have functionality in the control panel to add the images to all sub-categories, and even the top category itself. 
The top category image, however, will only be shown to Admin herself in her control panel, and not the end users. As a workaround,  you can still make the top-cat image available to your customers in the Menu block drop-down (instead of the last sub-cat thumb) by modifying the tpl file manually this way (based on http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php?topic=1079.0 ):

# diff storefront/view/default_html5/template/blocks/category_top.tpl  category_top.tpl.old
38,40c38,40
<                                  <li><img style="display:block" src="<?php echo $category['thumb']; ?>"
<                                         alt="<?php echo $category['name']; ?>"
<                                         title="<?php echo $category['name']; ?>">
---
>                                  <li><img style="display:block" src="<?php echo $scat['thumb']; ?>"
>                                         alt="<?php echo $scat['name']; ?>"
>                                         title="<?php echo $scat['name']; ?>">

But this wasn't the feature we were going to suggest 
Here is a related feature that doesn't seem to be possible to achieve even with hacks like the above:

ideally, the image(s) shown in Menu block category drop-down on the storefront page should change dynamically, depending on where your mouse is pointing:

- the moment you point at one of top categories (menu items corresponding to the 1st level product categories), you are presented with the top cat image to the right of the drop-down which shows sub-cats,
- next, when you start moving your mouse down drop-down, that thumb image changes dynamically depending on which exact sub-category your hovering over (with images of corresponding 2nd level sub-cat).

This way would allow us to present the top-category and 2nd level sub-cats images on the storefront page in a neat way!
(Currently, the only chance consumers have to see images of the sub-cats is on those rare occasions when they click directly on the 1st level product categories names in the menu rather than choosing sub-cat from drop-down).

Hope it makes sense to you, 
thank you

thanks for the swift reply.  We had the 'product features' extension purchased and installed, and found it only allows you to create and attach attributes to some specific products (manually), then shows a link(s) to these attributes related products over your home page   About the same could be achieved putting related products in category and clicking on it in menu, or using built-in 'featured' block --  unless you need to hand-pick several groups of random products out of your whole stockpile in order to advertise all of these diverse groups via these hyperlinks on a storefront page (that's where this extension might help).  however be warned that it likely won't work with the cool HTML5 template, only the orange default (at least, that is what happened to us).

anyway, sorry that it wasn't clear from the description how this is different from our problem:
imagine you have 15 categories (Make), each having 20 sub-categories (Model), that in turn have 10 sub-sub-categories for the actual types of products.
Overall, you have to deal with 15 x 20 x 10 = 3000 sub-categories not easily manageable via Menu or Search..

that's where you desperately need a new block or extension to browse these categories via 3 (or more) dropdown menus: choose the 1st category, let its sub-categories to load dynamically into the next dropdown; go on till you reach the bottom sub-category.  There are some great details with 2 opencart extensions referred above, and it can be seen in action at demo.sophio.com 
This kind of 'dynamic subcategories selector' is really the only reasonable way to show correct product content the first time if you have more or less many products/subcategories.  All it does, it selects child sub-categories on the fly at each step from 1 DB table (ab_categories?).

[product filter block]

hi,
first off, this cart rocks! lots of features and still user-friendly.
Wondering is there any chance for implementing a product filter block:
  opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=3621
  opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=973
each step narrows down selection directing customers to the right product, e.g. see the make/model/year filter at demo.sophio.com
Such block (or maybe extension) could be a great news for many of us having to deal with lots of subcategories.
thank you!