Product listing on the homepage.

[ely2c]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm setting up a store that has only about 10 - 15 products max.

 

I don't have any categories or subcategories....

 

My question is How do I display the product listing on the home page and remove the "New Product for..." box?

 

Any help is much appreciated.

 

Cheers,

 

e

[jpweber]

Here's how you can remove the new product listing.

 

(1) Open up your catalog/index.php page.

 

(2) Somewhere in there (lines 80-130, somewhere; can't tell on mine 'cause I have so many contributions), you will see a snippet oif code that looks like this:

 

<tr>

<td><?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); */ ?></td>

</tr>

 

Change it to this:

 

<tr>

<td><?php // include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); */ ?></td>

</tr>

 

(3) Save your file and upload it to the proper directory on your server, and those new products won't display anymore.

 

Regarding listing your products on your home page, I would just go to the Admin tool (www.yoursite.com/catalog/index/admin, or something like that) and then go to "languages" (under "localization"). Then highlight your default language (probably English), and click "details". Then click "index.php". There, you can do whatever you want. On that page, put something like this:

 

define('TEXT_MAIN', '

Put a little bit of text here if you'd like, like your company theme or motto, or whatever.<br>

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%>

<tr>

<td width="33%"><a href="link-to-product-1">Product 1<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product1.jpg">>/a></td>

<td width="33%"><a href="link-to-product-2">Product 1<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product2.jpg">>/a></td>

<td width="33%"><a href="link-to-product-3">Product 1<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product3.jpg">>/a></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td width="33%"><a href="link-to-product-4">Product 1<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product4.jpg">>/a></td>

<td width="33%"><a href="link-to-product-5">Product 1<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product5.jpg">>/a></td>

<td width="33%"><a href="link-to-product-6">Product 1<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product6.jpg">>/a></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td width="33%"><a href="link-to-product-7">Product 1<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product7.jpg">>/a></td>

<td width="33%"><a href="link-to-product-8">Product 1<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product8.jpg">>/a></td>

<td width="33%"><a href="link-to-product-9">Product 1<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product9.jpg">>/a></td>

</tr>

</table>

 

 

');

 

define('TABLE_HEADING_NEW_PRODUCTS', 'New Products For %s');

define('TABLE_HEADING_UPCOMING_PRODUCTS', 'Upcoming Products');

define('TABLE_HEADING_DATE_EXPECTED', 'Date Expected');

 

etc., etc., ....

 

Good luck. Hope this helped.

[squalid]

i dont think the links as suggested in index will keep the sessions, and so would not advice to follow that path.

[jpweber]

I had my a tag pointing the wrong wya, but I figured you knew html, so that wouldn't be an issue. Anyway, you have to make the links and img's the way your site was designed. AND you have to upload your images to the catalog/images directory if you haven't uploaded them from your hard drive by adding them as products yet.

 

So you just have to use common sense, based on your own website intricacies. For instance, a snippet of code might look like this:

 

Instead of:

<td width="33%"><a href="link-to-product-2">Product 1<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product2.jpg">>/a></td>

 

You might have:

<td width="33%"><a href="catalog/product_info.php?cPath=5&products_id=24">Product 2<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product2.jpg">>/a></td>

 

And you would have to upload the image to your catalog/images directory if you haven't already done so by adding the product through the admin. But if you have a path to a product, I'm assuming you uploaded the image when you created the product in your admin, originally.

 

Every product has a ctegory path and a product ID. Your cpath is your category path, and your product ID is what it is. Go into your ADMIN tool -- http://www.yourwebsite.com/catalog/admin, or something like that, and click on "catalog". Hover your mouse over the yellow folder where your categories are listed, and note the cpath in your browser window. When you double click the category, do the same thing with the product to get the product ID. Make a note of the cpath and product ID, and construct your link as I mentioned above, in index.php within your admin / localization / languages / english / details section of your admin.

 

That's about all I can say; I hope this was clear to you and it helps.

[jpweber]

geez; made the same mistake again:

 

<td width="33%"><a href="catalog/product_info.php?cPath=5&products_id=24">Product 2<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product2.jpg"></a></td>

 

There. Make your links like that, or similar to them (if you want 3 columns of products displayed on the index page)

[ely2c]

Hi Jason,

 

Thanks heaps for your help. I've managed to remove the "new products .." box.

 

What I didn't want to do though was to hand code the product listing.

 

I've already inserted the products into the system so i'd like to have it displayed dynamically,

just like how it normally displays when when you click on a category for example and it lists all the products under that category...

 

In this case though, I don't have any categories so I just want the products listed on the shop homepage..

 

Hope this makes sense.

 

Cheers,

 

e

[squalid]

geez; made the same mistake again:

 

<td width="33%"><a href="catalog/product_info.php?cPath=5&products_id=24">Product 2<br>

<img src="catalog/images/product2.jpg"></a></td>

 

There. Make your links like that, or similar to them (if you want 3 columns of products displayed on the index page)

 

This will not keep the sessions.

 

they need to be like this -( or similar)

 

'<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ALL_PRODUCTS) . '">

 

with the tep_href_link

[jpweber]

Yeah, if he wants ALL his products listed on the home page, that'll work. What if he has 100 products? I think that's what he's trying to figure out. But then he says he has no categories. I guess maybe he does wanna list all_products on the home page.

[squalid]

'<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ALL_PRODUCTS) . '">

 

 

the link name i put as an example is irrelevant

 

i posted that to show how to do href links in stores that will keep the sessions, doing a standard a href link will loose sessions for most stores

[ely2c]

I want to list all the products and I want to keep the sessions also.

 

So is there a way to do this without having to handcode the table with links to the products?

 

I just want to list it just like it would if it were in a category. know what I mean?

[ely2c]

See here..... http://www.solis.com.au/katies/index.php?cPath=21

 

At the moment I've just placed the products under a category called Products. When I click on the Products category I get this product list. Now if I go back to the main page by clicking on Catalogue, I get an empty page..

 

So I want this product listing on the main page. No categories needed.

 

 

Cheers,

 

e

[squalid]

have you tried putting your products outside of the category ?

[ely2c]

yes. i get nothing listed. the only way i get this list is if i place them in a category.

[ely2c]

anyone?

[jpweber]

The file controlling the product display is the same as the home page. Kinda sucks, but you can get around it. Catalog/index.php renders the HTML code that you see dynamically, that means it changes depending on the category links you click on. Somehow you have to change it to not look for categories, but to look for top level products. But why not look for a way around it?

 

How about just renaming your new products box to whatever you want.

 

Then go to your catalog/includes/languages/english/index.php page and remove all the junk, so there's just a little text to define.

 

Then go to ADMIN tool -- yoursite.com/catalog/admin, yoursite.com/admin, whatever, and play with the configuration/maximum values there. That way, you can make it 10 or 20 products big; whatever you want.

[ely2c]

yeah, i was kinda thinking that before... kind of a dirty hack.

 

but it still wouldn't list the products the way is should.. like having it in rows with 'buy now' button and price and so on.

[ely2c]

there has to be a way take the code that display product listing and use it to display in the homepage.

please help.

[ely2c]

Solved it with a cheap hack.

 

Changed the cPath in application_top.php to point to the category and removed the second title header in the breadcrumb.

 

Thanks guys for all you help.