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How would I change the products that get displayed on the page when I first get to OSCommerce?

[M-Pro]

In summary the process, presuming you are comfortably skilled with PHP & MySQL, but unfamiliar with osCommerce then

 

Make a copy and rename the file

includes/modules/new_products.php

 

let say you call it my_products.php

 

edit my_products.php modify the sql query to select the products you do want

 

edit index.php find every occurance of

include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS);

change this to

include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_MY_PRODUCTS);

 

beware there are two, basically the lower one used for the home page that displays on the page that shows the welcome, the second (higher) one when within a catagory that has subcategories, the new products module would show new products within this category. Just prior to this include '$new_products_category_id = $current_category_id;' is set that is used in the new products module with category display.

 

Not sure whether you'd want to ONLY display my_products on the home page, if so only change the lower of the two includes.

 

edit includes\filenames.php, add

define (' FILENAME_MY_PRODUCTS', 'my_products.php');

 

In the admin system, in configuration/maximum value, there is a field called New Products Module, which controls how many products this module displays. If you do the change as above then it'd control new products and my_products, it'd be better for you to add a seperate configuration record for your new module. Which if you know mysql you'll easilly work out.

 

I kind of did something along the lines you want at one of my recent site, although there is a contribution that you can use to show special offers on your home page as well as or instead of new products, what i wanted was

-Display on home page only

-Do not display within a category which has subcategories

-Display as many special offers as available

-If less than the admin max display parameter, back fill with best selling products

-Display a logo & strapline text within the display

- Draw fancy bozes around each product

Check out www.scubanet.net

Although I fully integrated this more fully than described above

 

If you aren't comfortable with PHP&MySQL then in my opinion this change isn't simple plug and play. And my changes are very tailored to the style desired by this site, so I haven't posted it as an article.

 

the following contribtion may help http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,123 it describes how to do a more fully integrated solution and adds special offers to your homepage and within categories and I strongly suspect it used new_products.php as its foundation.

 

I hope this helps

 

M-Pro

[MoisesZaragoza]

Thanks that was very helpfull