Display Products in boxes 2 or 3 in a row

[Guest]

Hi there,

 

Can someone tell me what contribution to use to be able to display my products on my category pages like this shop has done?

 

http://www.westwoodprinters.com/catalog/

 

Thanks,

Alsitair

[jpweber]

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,651/

[Guest]

Tnx for that,

 

I've checked out the Featured Products contrib and it does what I want but looks like it only does it for selected products.

 

Is it possible to set things up so as when u broswe by category you would see all products in the Featured Product display rather than the standard category display.

 

The same site still displays categories in the old fashioned way:

http://www.westwoodprinters.com/catalog/he...-c-1_54_55.html

 

What I really want is to be able to browse by category and have all category products displayed in the Featured product style?

 

Is this possible by default or would it take some tweaking?

 

Thanks Again,

Ally

[Guest]

All that site is using is a modified products_new module, I have something similar here:

 

http://www.almat-computers.co.uk

 

I will try and dig out the coding used.

[Guest]

I will try and dig out the coding used.

 

 

That looks like just the ticket Stu, be well chuffed if you could post it.

 

Thanks,

Ally

[Guest]

My code is heavily modified as we have free products listed and do not want the price of ?0.00 displayed, so we display "FREE" instead, but from the coding below, you should get an idea.

 

Catalog/includes/modules.new_products.

 

<?php
/*
 $Id: new_products.php,v 1.34 2003/06/09 22:49:58 hpdl Exp $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com

 Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce

 Released under the GNU General Public License
*/
?>
<!-- new_products //-->
<?php
 if ( (!isset($new_products_category_id)) || ($new_products_category_id == '0') ) {
$new_products_query = tep_db_query("select p.products_id, p.products_image, p.products_tax_class_id, if(s.status, s.specials_new_products_price, p.products_price) as products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p left join " . TABLE_SPECIALS . " s on p.products_id = s.products_id where products_status = '1' order by p.products_date_added desc limit " . MAX_DISPLAY_NEW_PRODUCTS);
 } else {
$new_products_query = tep_db_query("select distinct p.products_id, p.products_image, p.products_tax_class_id, if(s.status, s.specials_new_products_price, p.products_price) as products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p left join " . TABLE_SPECIALS . " s on p.products_id = s.products_id, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_TO_CATEGORIES . " p2c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c where p.products_id = p2c.products_id and p2c.categories_id = c.categories_id and c.parent_id = '" . (int)$new_products_category_id . "' and p.products_status = '1' order by p.products_date_added desc limit " . MAX_DISPLAY_NEW_PRODUCTS);
 }

 $row = 0;
 $col = 0;
 $info_box_contents = array();
 while ($new_products = tep_db_fetch_array($new_products_query)) {
$new_products['products_name'] = tep_get_products_name($new_products['products_id']);

		$listprice = $new_products['products_price'];
		if ($listprice == 0) { $listprice1 = 'Free';
		} else {
		$listprice1 = $currencies->display_price($new_products['products_price'], tep_get_tax_rate($new_products['products_tax_class_id']));
		} 

$linkfree = $new_products['products_price'];
		if ($linkfree == 0) { 
		$linkfree1 = '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $new_products['products_id']) . '"><img alt="Add to Cart" src="images/x.gif" width="54" height="20"></a>';
		} else {
		$linkfree1 = '<a href="' . tep_href_link(basename($PHP_SELF), tep_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $new_products['products_id'], 'NONSSL') . '"><img alt="Add to Cart" src="images/x.gif" width="54" height="20"></a>';
		} 


$info_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('align'  => 'center',
									   'params' => 'class="smallText" width="33%" valign="top"',
									   'text'   => '<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="169">
<tr><td width="169" align="center" height="30" background="images/prod-top.jpg" class="products-price">' . $listprice1 . '</td></tr><tr><td width="169" background="images/prod-body.jpg" align="center" height="158" valign="top"><br><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $new_products['products_id']) . '"><b>' . $new_products['products_name'] . '</b><br><br>' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $new_products['products_image'], $new_products['products_name'], SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT) . '</a></td></tr><tr><td width="169" height="34" background="images/prod-bot.gif" valign="top" align="center"><table border="0" width="84" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="20"><tr><td width="30"><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $new_products['products_id']) . '"><img alt="More Info" src="images/x.gif" width="30" height="20"></a></td><td width="54">' . $linkfree1 . '</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>');

$col ++;
if ($col > 2) {
  $col = 0;
  $row ++;
}
 }

 new contentBox($info_box_contents);
?>
<!-- new_products_eof //-->

[Guest]

Do you also own http://www.almatcomputers.co.uk/store/ as the products on the homepage, need the cod