Upfront Rec Posted May 12, 2003 Posted May 12, 2003 Hi all! Ok, i am very new to this and i have a friend that knows a bit about PHP etc.. But i think i have exhausted his knowledge already! I have a record store for DJ's that sells vinyl. What i am trying to do is have a short description truncated in the product listing as well as the new products page. In this short description i want to put a link which is for a Real Audio file so that the customer can prelisten to the vinyl before purchasing. I know i can do this already in the full product description but i want it to display in the product listing where it shows all the products instock for that particular category (lets see what we have here?) rather than the customer having to navigate forward and backwards thru each full product description. (Am i making any sense yet?) Ok, so thats part one, In each category i have two sub-categories, one called "new this week" and the other called "All-instock". Each week i want to move the products from last weeks "New this week" into "all-instock" to make room for new records i recieve that week! I am looking at using Easy populate to do this but have read in the instructions that if i make any changes to "Products_description" or other category related tables it will not work? I will be adding around 100-300 new vinyls per week and doing it all manually as well as moving stock from catagories is rather a daunting task! Will Easy populate work with having a truncated short description? Does anyone know if what i am asking is at all possible? I have tried searching the forum but have not found an answer yet! Does anyone have some sort of direction i can take to make this all work? I am using Oscomerce 2.2 :D Thank you to anyone who can help! :lol: [email protected]
Gata Posted May 12, 2003 Posted May 12, 2003 Hello Upfront, I use the contribution called Short Desc. in Product Listing by Paul Crovella which can be found here: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,67 It is perfect for what you have described. Do you have your products in a database already? If so, just add the url link for the Real Audio file to your description field. You can set the number of characters that can be displayed- up to 300 I think. As for Easy Poplulate, I use it for uploading my database of over 5000 listings. A new feature for the latest release is so cool- you can upload your file via ftp, and then insert your products through the admin. Takes care of some timeout issues. I have added a new field to the table products_description which is a bit of work, but worth it. You will have to add any new field you create to the mysql database, your own database, several of the php files and to the easy populate file. Most of the php files that you will edit for the Short Descriptions contribution will be the same ones you will edit for your new field. (a tip) The next contribution that you might want to check out is called Featured Products. You can choose through the admin which products to feature in a box on the main page- very nice. I used this one: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,651 Hope this helps- Catherine
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