Shopping Cart In PHP

[chey]

currently, i have a cart where i display the sub categories. i want the subcategories description to be displayed under it. the gif shows the current display & here is the code for displaying the sub catgories.

/**
    * CATEGORY DESCRIPTION
    */
   $desc =  $ps_product_category->get_description($category_id);
   /* Prepend Product Short Description Meta Tag "description" when applicable */
   if( @$_REQUEST['output'] != "pdf") {
      $mainframe->prependMetaTag( "description", substr(strip_tags($desc ), 0, 255) );
   }
   if( trim(str_replace( "<br />", "" , $desc)) != "" ) {

  echo $desc;
  echo '<br /><br />';
    }

if (!empty($category_id) ) {

    /**
* PATHWAY - Navigation List
*/
echo '<div style="text-align:left;">';
$nav_list = $ps_product_category->get_navigation_list($category_id);

if( @$_REQUEST['output'] != "pdf") {
	$mainframe->appendPathWay( $nav_list );
}
else {
	echo "<strong>".$nav_list ."</strong><br />";
}
$child_list = $ps_product_category->get_child_list($category_id);
if (!empty( $child_list )) {
	echo $child_list;
	echo 'hello';
}
echo '</div>';
if (!empty( $child_list )) {
	echo '<br style="clear:both;" /><br />';
}


}

[chey]

hmmm, currently i know where to solve the sub category descriptions, but i'm not good with php, so i need help.

$child_list actually displays the categories. BUT, it displays it at the side as well. in shop.browse.php + ps_product_category.php, $child_list is used to generate the display. in order for it to display the descriptions under the one in the sub category page, i'll have to change the child_list function right? is there anyway way to modify the code for it?

in shop.browse.php:

$child_list = $ps_product_category->get_child_list($category_id);
	$desc =  $ps_product_category->get_description($category_id);
	if (!empty( $child_list )) {
	    echo $child_list;

}
echo '</div>';
if (!empty( $child_list )) {
	echo '<br style="clear:both;" /><br />';
}

this would display it on the main page.(shown below in blue)

in ps_product_category.php

function print_child_list($category_id) {
		echo $this->get_child_list($category_id);
	}

prints it on the module side.

so... how can i enable both functions to print differently?