cieto Featured Products v1.5 JUST RELEASE!

emiliano · December 2, 2002

Hello, I just upload cieto Featured Products v1.5.

I fixed many bugs from version 1.0 and now it works with less files.

Please read the readme file before using it.

Although I realease a beta-final version it will be final version if someone post that had no problems with it...

Cheers

Emiliano

Download it

http://www.oscommerce.com/downloads.php/co...ions,749/type,3

quicklyshop · December 3, 2002

Hi

Thank you for your hardwork. Is there any sample of this contribition we can see.

emiliano · December 3, 2002

You can see a test shop at

Spanish

http://www.patagoniasoaring.org.ar/emi/cat...php?language=es

English

http://www.patagoniasoaring.org.ar/emi/cat...php?language=en

I delete the language box :)

Emiliano

emiliano · December 3, 2002

There are no layout diferences between v1.0 and v1.5 (so the test site looks the same). The diferences are that the script run faster now and that I include a admin/categories.php file so it?s easier to install the contribution.

If you change your categories.php file please contact me in order to make it work.

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TO DO (if you want to help me, contact me!)

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Translate to english the readme file (it?s in english, but in MY english, which sucks)

Add the posibility to limit the short description quantity of characters in the admin panel...

To create the posibility to add a diferent image to show in the default.php file - diferent from the one you have in your product_info.php

To choose to have or not the "add to cart" button.

Emiliano

Download it

http://www.oscommerce.com/downloads.php/co...ions,749/type,3

guanche · December 4, 2002

Emiliano,

Nice contribution, does it show featured products at random or only in the order they are entered?

emiliano · December 4, 2002

it shows the products in the order you enter them in the featured table..

now you have change my todo list

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TO DO

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Show all the featured products or set a max quantity of products to show

Choose from order them by the date you enter them in the featured table or just ramdon

Emiliano

dreamscape · December 4, 2002

in the readme it says:

"If there are more featured products than the maximum allowed

to be displayed, a random selection will be shown."

but it only shows the most recently added featured prods... there is no random selection... Is this planned to be added? If not, might you tell me how I could change the module to show a random sample instead?

emiliano · December 5, 2002

let me work it out..

emiliano

emiliano · December 5, 2002

With this changes now the contribution actually show the maximun set in configure.php but not random show.. just the lastest entered..

define('MAX_DISPLAY_FEATURED_PRODUCTS', '2');

Made this changes:

In file catalog/modules/featured.php line 24

At the end of the line

... pd.products_name";

with this...

... pd.products_name limit " . MAX_DISPLAY_FEATURED_PRODUCTS;

Then comment line 26

So i should look like this

  // $featured_products_max = new splitPageResults($HTTP_GET_VARS['page'],  MAX_DISPLAY_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_LISTING, $featured_products_query_raw, $featured_products_numrows);

If some wants to help me with the random thing it would be great.. at the time i have many exams at the university...

cheers

emiliano

dreamscape · December 5, 2002

If some wants to help me with the random thing it would be great.. at the time i have many exams at the university...

cheers

emiliano

the featured products contribution that you took yours from displays a random sample if the max number is higher than the total # in the category... how does it do it?

emiliano · December 5, 2002

i'll look at the code of aubrey featured products...

cheers

emiliano

emiliano · December 5, 2002

Please make this modification in order to improve the contribution:

All the lines number are aproximately, just use then to know more or less the line position...

There are 2 files to modify...

Made this changes in catalog/modules/featured.php

There are four main modifications to do in this file:

*1* First of all delete this line:

# require('../application_top.php');

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*2* Then, delete this one:

 $featured_products_split = new splitPageResults($HTTP_GET_VARS['page'], MAX_DISPLAY_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_LISTING, $featured_products_query_raw, $featured_products_numrows);

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*3* The following change would show the featured products if you set it at catalog/includes/configure.php or it'd show the new products infobox

After <?php in line 21 add this

 if(FEATURED_PRODUCTS_DISPLAY == true)

   {

And before the last ?> (line 40) add this

else // If it's disabled, then include the original New Products box

   {

     include (DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS);

   }

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*4* Now is time to show random featured products, not just the lastest added if you have more featured products that the max quantity to show that you set up at catalog/includes/configure.php .

Go to the select query line (24) and change this:

 p.products_date_added DESC, pd.products_name

With this:

 rand()

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Made this changes in catalog/configure.php

*1* Delete this line (42)

 define('MAX_DISPLAY_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_LISTING', '10');

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Hey that is all!!!

I hope you found this changes usefull...

Emiliano

dreamscape · December 6, 2002

yes yes that does the trick... (though a } needed to be added before else on my system)

thank you thank you...

emiliano · December 6, 2002

i missed that... sorry :cry:

I?d love to see some live sites using this contribution....

Please post any url using this contribution...

Emiliano

PS: i will launch v1.6 in the next week (it?ll be v1.5 plus this changes)

dreamscape · December 6, 2002

hey I am still developing... don't have a host yet... but I like this contrib so much and the layout of the featured products listing so much that I changed my product listings when browsing or searching to match this layout...

I also slightly modified it that if the short description is blank, it takes the 1st 25 words of the actual description and lists them with "..." after it... I did this because I use EasyPopulate and didn't want to have to go through and create a short description for every product.

emiliano · December 6, 2002

i?d like to add that feature to the contribution.. how do you do it?

Emiliano

dreamscape · December 6, 2002

this is how I did it...

in /catalog/includes/modules/featured.php in the select query (about line 26) where it says

"select p.products_id, pd.products_name, pd.products_shortdescription, ..."

add in the products description:

"select p.products_id, pd.products_name, pd.products_shortdescription, pd.products_description, ..."

then in the array about line 32 after the short description, add the description to the array:

          'description' => $featured_products['products_description'],

Then in /catalog/includes/modules/featured_products.php about line 28 where it inserts the short description, you need to break this line

    <td valign="top" class="main" width="80%"><div align="justify"><?php echo '<b><font size="1">::</font> <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $featured_products_array[$i]['id'], 'NONSSL') . '"><u>' . $featured_products_array[$i]['name'] . '</u></a>:</b> ' . $featured_products_array[$i]['shortdescription'] . '<br>' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'pixel_trans.gif', '', '1', '5') . '<br>' . TEXT_PRICE . ' ' . $products_price; ?>

and insert and IF statement...

    <td valign="top" class="main" width="80%"><div align="justify">

<?php echo '<b><font size="1">::</font> <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $featured_products_array[$i]['id'], 'NONSSL') . '"><u>' . $featured_products_array[$i]['name'] . '</u></a>:</b>';

 if ($featured_products_array[$i]['shortdescription'] == ''){

	 $bah = explode(" ", $featured_products_array[$i]['description']);

	 for($desc=0; $desc<25; $desc++)

	 {

	 echo "$bah[$desc] ";

	 }

   echo '...';

 } else {

 echo $featured_products_array[$i]['shortdescription'];

 }

 echo $featured_products_array[$i]['shortdescription'] . '<br>' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'pixel_trans.gif', '', '1', '5') . '<br>' . TEXT_PRICE . ' ' . $products_price; ?>

Actually I took it a step further and changed the layout a little too... I changed lines 21 to 51 to the following:

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">

 <tr> 

   <td colspan="3"><hr width="100%" size="1" noshade color="#366E3D"> </td>

 </tr>

 <tr> 

   <td width="<?php echo SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH + 10; ?>" rowspan="4" align="right" valign="top" class="main"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $featured_products_array[$i]['id'], 'NONSSL') . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $featured_products_array[$i]['image'], $featured_products_array[$i]['name'], SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT) . '</a>'; ?></td>

   <td width="80%" valign="top" class="main"><div align="justify"><?php echo '<b><font size="1">::</font> <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $featured_products_array[$i]['id'], 'NONSSL') . '"><u>' . $featured_products_array[$i]['name'] . '</u></a>:</b>'; ?> 

     </div></td>

 </tr>

 <tr> 

   <td valign="top" class="main"> 

     <?php 

if ($featured_products_array[$i]['shortdescription'] == ''){

$bah = explode(" ", $featured_products_array[$i]['description']);

for($desc=0; $desc<25; $desc++)

 {

 echo "$bah[$desc] ";

 }

 echo '...';

} else {

echo $featured_products_array[$i]['shortdescription'];

}

?>

   </td>

 </tr>

 <tr> 

   <td valign="top" class="main"><?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'pixel_trans.gif', '', '1', '5') . '<br>' . TEXT_PRICE . ' ' . $products_price; ?></td>

 </tr>

 <tr> 

   <td align="left" valign="top" class="main"><b><font size="1">:</font></b> <?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $featured_products_array[$i]['id'], 'NONSSL') . '">'; ?>More 

     Info</a> <b><font size="1">::</font></b> <?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link('default.php', tep_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $featured_products_array[$i]['id'], 'NONSSL') . '">'; ?>Buy 

     Now</a> <b><font size="1">:</font></b></td>

 </tr>

It makes the layout a little nicer to read and add a "More Info" and "Buy Now" link after the price... here is a screenshot of the modified layout:

emiliano · December 6, 2002

sweeeeeeeet

can i add this to the contrib?

emiliano

dreamscape · December 6, 2002

absolutely... thats why we're all here... to help each other out and build a kickin ecommerce app in process

emiliano · December 7, 2002

i will never get tired saying that I love this open source thing...

gwinger · December 7, 2002

Might you send me that files?

Cu Guido

[email protected]

nouck · December 7, 2002

Hi, instead of having pictures under each other, each specail like right next to each other in row instead of collumn?

Like three special right next each other from left to right, instead of from top to bottom. That way, I will have more room to display others things.

Is there a code for that, and where would I inserted?

Thanks

nouck

dreamscape · December 7, 2002

use v1.3 by the other contributor... it displays them in the "normal" OSC layout if thats what you want

emiliano · December 7, 2002

Remember that this contribution allows you to insert a short description, so in order to have a more organized layout I use row instead of colums!!!

Emiliano

dreamscape · December 8, 2002

hey emiliano I just realized another bug with this contrib... if you are on the main page, it shows featured products from all categories (thats good)... but if you go into a top level category, it still shows featured products from all categories (that is bad... shouldn't it show only featured products from within that top level category)... I never noticed this before, because at the time I only had products within 1 category

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