Question about Manufacturers Dropdown Menu (again!)

[jesma]

Hi,

 

At the moment, on the Manufacturer dropdown menu, before you click on it to open the dropdown, it simply says "Please Select". Then you would click on please select and it would reveal all the lists of manufacturers.

 

Here's the question... how would you be able to have the first item listed from the manufacturer dropdown to be where the "Please Select" is?

[jesma]

Hi,

 

At the moment, on the Manufacturer dropdown menu, before you click on it to open the dropdown, it simply says "Please Select". Then you would click on please select and it would reveal all the lists of manufacturers.

 

Here's the question... how would you be able to have the first item listed from the manufacturer dropdown to be where the "Please Select" is?

 

Also, if the above it too hard to do, how could I just define my own text instead of "Please Select", and replace it with "Choose A Band", for example. I went into english.php and found "Please Select" to "Choose A Band", and it made ALL dropdown menus change to this text, so even the choose a country dropdown in the checkout says "Choose A Band"! Is there anyway I can define just the manufacturers dropdown to say Choose A Band?

[241]

catalog/includes/boxes/manufacturers.php approx line #42

 

		$manufacturers_array[] = array('id' => '', 'text' => PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT);

 

either change this to be hard coded (not always the best way especially if using multiple languages)

 

		$manufacturers_array[] = array('id' => '', 'text' => 'Choose A Band');

 

or better method is to do this

 

		$manufacturers_array[] = array('id' => '', 'text' => PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT_MANUFACTURER);

 

then create the new define in the catalog/includes/languages/[language eg english].php

define('PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT_MANUFACTURER', 'Choose A Band');

[jesma]

a late thanks for the above reply!

 

does anyone know a way to display the first manufactorer name inplace of the Please select text?

[Jack_mcs]

Delete this code and it should work for you

	  if (MAX_MANUFACTURERS_LIST < 2) {
	$manufacturers_array[] = array('id' => '', 'text' => PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT);
  }

 

Jack