Determining Home (catalog) page Products - How?

[soundguy]

I've just built a site for a client (http://capefearnaturals.com/). The client wants to know how to set which items are visible on the home page.

 

I explained that the items where set by when they were added to the catalog. This is no good for my client. He wants to be able to set with determination the items visible and their order.

 

Any help is greatly apreciated.

 

osCommerce v2.2 RC2

[Guest]

Try featured products. That may be what you want. Look in the add-ons for it.

[sormui]

I've just built a site for a client (http://capefearnaturals.com/). The client wants to know how to set which items are visible on the home page.

 

I explained that the items where set by when they were added to the catalog. This is no good for my client. He wants to be able to set with determination the items visible and their order.

 

Any help is greatly apreciated.

 

osCommerce v2.2 RC2

I'm also looking for the same feature. But I also want to know is there a way to set the catalog page to be the home page (index.php)? Thanks in advance!

[sLaV-]

I'm also looking for the same feature. But I also want to know is there a way to set the catalog page to be the home page (index.php)? Thanks in advance!

 

I think your looking for Store In Root

[sormui]

I think your looking for Store In Root

No, I meant when I type http://mydomain.com/index.php, it will go to http://mydomain.com/index.php?cPath=21 (I only have 1 category in my store and this is the page that when I click the first link in the categories info box).

[sormui]

No, I meant when I type http://mydomain.com/index.php, it will go to http://mydomain.com/index.php?cPath=21 (I only have 1 category in my store and this is the page that when I click the first link in the categories info box).

Can anyone help please?

[sLaV-]

Can anyone help please?

 

You can do a 301 redirect

 

adding something like:

 

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?cPath=21 [R=301,L]

 

to your .htaccess file in your store root

 

The above MIGHT not work so you'd probably have to do some further research on htaccess files

[♥kymation]

The easiest way is to find this code in catalog/includes/application_top.php

// calculate category path
 if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'])) {
$cPath = $HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'];
 } elseif (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id']) && !isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['manufacturers_id'])) {
$cPath = tep_get_product_path($HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id']);
 } else {
$cPath = '';

and change that last line to

	$cPath = '21';

Regards

Jim

[sormui]

The easiest way is to find this code in catalog/includes/application_top.php

// calculate category path
 if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'])) {
$cPath = $HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'];
 } elseif (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id']) && !isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['manufacturers_id'])) {
$cPath = tep_get_product_path($HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id']);
 } else {
$cPath = '';

and change that last line to

	$cPath = '21';

Regards

Jim

Yeah, it works, thanks!!!