Product listing

[sm00nie]

Hi all,

 

I was going thorugh the files and I could find which file contains the product listing, in a category, table (where it lists the product, price, and buy now button).

 

Would anyone know where this table is ? I'm looking to re-arrange the order, and possibly remove the buy now button.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

sm00nie :)

[MzBeanz]

Hi all,

 

I was going thorugh the files and I could find which file contains the product listing, in a category, table (where it lists the product, price, and buy now button).

 

Would anyone know where this table is ? I'm looking to re-arrange the order, and possibly remove the buy now button.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

sm00nie :)

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You can remove teh buy it now button by changing a setting in your admin panel under configuration>productlisting

 

Not sure which file to re-arrange. I will give a look see if I can find it

 

maddie

[sm00nie]

Thanks maddie :)

 

I'm having one bugger of a time finding it :P

[Wendy James]

If you change the settings in your admin, there is no need to edit any file. The admin area stated above allows you to turn on/off different columns and set what order you want them to appear in.

 

Now if you want to change the layout... such as make it look like the whats new box, or add images (like boxes around each product listing), that is another story.

[sm00nie]

I'm looking for which file had the table to edit, because I wanted to insert a another row and have the buy now button listed there.

 

So, I'd have the product_name, price, and description on one <tr>, and I'd have the buy now button (or something else) on a following table row.

[Wendy James]

I believe you should be looking in the catalog/includes/modules/product_listing.php

[sm00nie]

After much mucking about I was able to customize the product listings :D

Thanks for the info Wendy :)

[Richard Bailey]

Hi Wendy ive been desperatly trying to make it look like the "whats new" box!!

 

Have you seen this done/ do you know of a contribution to do this.......

 

Thanks in advance!!

 

Rich

[Wendy James]

Do you mean put each product inside of a box? Do you want to use images or just put a box? Can you be a bit more specific? =)

[Richard Bailey]

http://www.onevideo.co.uk/products_new.php

 

I really want the category listings to look like products new... So a horisontal layout but with the different lines of info on top of each other...

 

My prob at the mo is I have quite long names which fall onto multiple lines because of the colums which looks messy....

 

Chrs!!

 

Rich

[Wendy James]

It's a bit more complicated than on the products_new.php

 

You will have to edit the catalog/includes/modules/product_listing.php

I think that is the only way to do it.

 

If you open the page at the bottom have you will see (for an example)

          case 'PRODUCT_LIST_MODEL':
           $lc_align = '';
           $lc_text = ' ' . $listing['products_model'] . ' ';
           break;

The heading - case 'PRODUCT_LIST_MODEL':

cell alignment - $lc_align = '';

text in the cell - $lc_text = ' ' . $listing['products_model'] . ' ';

end of cell - break;

 

Now if you wanted to add something to the model column you would add it to the text line. You could get the code from on that page, in another "case" like case 'PRODUCT_LIST_MANUFACTURER':

 

for an example lets say you want the manufacturers name under the model # you would change the line above to this

 

$lc_text = ' ' . $listing['products_model'] . '<br><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'manufacturers_id=' . $listing['manufacturers_id']) . '">' . $listing['manufacturers_name'] . '</a> ';

 

Done't forget that the column order is changed in the admin area under product listing. Between that and moving some code around you can get the look you want.

 

I would suggest making a back up and then just messing around and trying things. Will be the only way to learn and see what does what.

 

There may be other ways to do it, but this is the only way I know how.

[Richard Bailey]

Hey Wendy, been tapping away and getting there... Thanks for taking the time to help me out!

 

My problem at the mo is that if I set for example Manufactuer = 0 in the admin (because I dont want it shown twice) it dosnt get shown at all....

 

Any ideas...

 

Rich!

[Wendy James]

You could try removing

case 'PRODUCT_LIST_MANUFACTURER':
       $lc_text = TABLE_HEADING_MANUFACTURER;
       $lc_align = '';
       break;

 

and

case 'PRODUCT_LIST_MANUFACTURER':
           $lc_align = '';
           $lc_text = ' <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'manufacturers_id=' . $listing['manufacturers_id']) . '">' . $listing['manufacturers_name'] . '</a> ';
           break;

 

if you try that just make sure to backup first just incase I am way off. :D

[Richard Bailey]

Yea thats what I thought but turns out it appears to be expecting it so just repeats the previous row (eg in my case "Model")....

 

Thanks again

 

Rich

[Richard Bailey]

Getting there - turns out if you set Manu -> 0 in backend you need to take its request to the database out of the array which generates the colums....

 

Rich