Hello all, i want to display the categories in a vertical menu, from the examples posted here i saw is possible using :

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{foreach from=$categories name=categories item=cat key=cats}
<li><a href="{$cat.path}/">{$cat.title}</a></li>
{/foreach}

The categories are displayed in a verical menu but i plan not use subcategories so i'm interested to show all the categories with the correct path on all my pages.

Currently with the expression posted above the categories are displayed only on my main page, when i click any category only "home" and "add url" links are displayed, to go to another category i must click "home" and only after choose a new category.

Also with the above page on my "addurl" page is displayed a small arrow.

Examples :

Main main page :

Menu

* Home
* Submit
* Category 1
* Category 2

The Categories :

Menu

* Home
* Submit

Add URL Page :

Menu

* Home
* Submit
* <


How i want ?

Menu

* Home
* Submit
* Category 1
* Category 2

On all my pages not only on my main page and the path to be correct, if i browse "Category 2" and click "Category 1" to go to /category1/ not /category2/category1/

Any sugestions are appreciated

Update :

Used this code i found on this forum but the path is incorrect when i browse one of the categories, example when i browse /category 1 and click "Category 2" i'm redirected to : category1/category2/ instead of /category2

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{php}
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `categories` ORDER BY `title` ASC");
echo mysql_error();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
   ?>
   <li><a href="<?=$row['path']?>/"><?=$row['title']?></a></li>
   <?
   }
{/php}



Another problem, i would like to display the number of categories and number of links on the "addurl" page too and as i said the main menu but is not working for some reason, the codes have no effect on "addurl" page.

Take a look at examples here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strrchr.php

I'm affraid i'm not able to do this myself, my knowledge is not good in php or smarty.

Here's another good example:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strrpos.php#71882

Well i give up, i understand how to create a template for the script, to design it, but don't know how to create such functions, i appreciate your links but i'm not a coder, will be great if you or somebody else can tell me how to do it exactly, the code, function modified