Multiple Columns Based On categories + Categories Description

[mazen_hattab]

Dear all,

 

am starting my first oscommerce website and i want to have multiple products on the same line instead of having just one on each line, more deeply, i am searching for a way to control how many product i display on a line based on the categorie (for example if it is a knife then i want 3 knifes per line, if it is Car then one car by line) anyone can help me please it is so urgent and i browsed already all the contributions and i dont know what to do :(

 

 

the other problem is that am searching for a way to show a html description for each category for example for bags i want to show an article near the bag category to explain how to use it...

 

thanks in advance for your help

 

Mazen

[nana]

i am working on something like that for someone see if this is what you are looking for http://seelily.com and i can give you some ideas how to do it

for description for each category there is a contribution

Edited November 7, 2005 by nana

[mazen_hattab]

yes it is exactly what am searching to change the display based on the category :D

 

it would be great if you tell me how

 

and about the contributions for the information on a categorie i want to include pictures and a html page for a certain category so what contribution it is ??????

 

 

thanks alooooooooooot in advance

[nana]

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2343

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...search,category

Edited November 7, 2005 by nana

[mazen_hattab]

thanks alot for the solutions i will try them to see if they will permit me to add a html page

 

 

the most important for me is the thing that you made on your site to choose how many product to display on line by category :(

 

mazen

[nana]

there are a few contribution that allows product listing in column and there is one that lets you adjust the type of listing for the whole site

i started from that

also added two table one for the css choices and one for column listing and added two fields to the categories table one for each variable.

then in the admin section i added two drop down one for eachin the categories.php so the changes can be modified there

then in application_top.php i pulled these two field from the db

in includes/product_listing.php i used the column listing variable to decide the number of columns and in product_info.php and index.php i used the css that i get from the db

when you are doing the other if you pay a little attention you should be able to make these changes also

[mazen_hattab]

can you send me please the code of it so i can know how to do it :( and integrate it in my code and so i can save time :(

 

thanks alot in advance

 

mazen

[nana]

this is the largest bulk of code that i have used to add the choice to the category but it is mostly a lot of little changes to existing files as i have described

you will know exactly what you need to do when you install the contribution that i have mentioned and you can probably do it at the same time

 ////CATEGORY TO DISPLSY STRAT
 $display_query = tep_db_query("select display_id, display_name from " . TABLE_DISPLAY_CATEGORIES . " order by display_name");
		while ($display = tep_db_fetch_array($display_query)) {
		  $display_array[] = array('id' => $display['display_id'],
										'text' => $display['display_name']);
		}
 $css_query = tep_db_query("select css_id, css_name from " . TABLE_CSS_CATEGORIES . " order by css_name");
		while ($css = tep_db_fetch_array($css_query)) {
		  $css_array[] = array('id' => $css['css_id'],
										'text' => $css['css_name']);
		}

[Elena1]

I am sorry for not understanding something here... i red about the contribution listed here, but there is nothing about multiple column listing... what exactly should i do in order to list product in columns? i found one contribution - osC-ProductListingSelect for MS2 , but there were many problems with it unfortunately.. any advice? thank you, Elena.

[nana]

that is what i used as the base for what i did and but i did neither follow instruction or used anything other than product_listing.php and am not aware of any problem with it

please explain a little more about your difficulties which might be from the other parts of contributions and i am not aware of

[Elena1]

i only need to display product in columns and i don't know what contribution to use... i am reading about them now... found this just now

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?sho...ic=176096&st=80

i will try it...

[mazen_hattab]

Dear NANA

 

i didnt understand how to make the modifications for the page product_listing.php so i am wondering if it is possible that you send me Your page and the pages where you made the modifications and the sql scripts so it looks like a Contribution a little bit cos i am stuck in my place since last time and i dont know even what to modify in the product_lisiting since i am not familiarized with oscommerce

 

my email is [email protected]

 

i want to thank you very much for your help in advance.

 

 

 

Mazen