Two Customization Questions

[Zarathud]

1. Is it possible to alternate the row background color in the product listing - the way it looks in the product attributes page of the admin panel?

 

2. I have a product that has 5 options and each option pull-down has 43 items. Is there a way to alphabetically sort the items in the pull-down menu? Right now they are in no particular order and it makes it a little difficult to find a specific option with that many itmes.

 

Thanks.

[Guest]

For 2, you could look here.

 

For 1, check out the stylesheet.css definitions for productListing-Even and productListing-Odd. You will want to change one or both of the background colors.

 

Good luck,

Matt

[joekalis]

I'm curious about that as well, but the link you supplied for the pulldown solution doesn't work.

 

Somewhat similarly, I was curious if there is anyway to put a blank line (line break) inbetween Categories

 

Such as at www.myredbarn.com, could I get a blank line inbetween the "Cricket Creations" and "Automotive" categories.

 

thank you

[Zarathud]

That's odd, the link was working earlier. The solution was to add a line to product_info.php. Search for this function:

 

$products_options_query = tep_db_query("select pov.products_options_values_id, pov.products_options_values_name, pa.options_values_price, pa.price_prefix from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_ATTRIBUTES . " pa, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_VALUES . " pov where pa.products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'] . "' and pa.options_id = '" . (int)$products_options_name['products_options_id'] . "' and pa.options_values_id = pov.products_options_values_id and pov.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "'");

 

and replace it with:

 

$products_options_query = tep_db_query("select pov.products_options_values_id, pov.products_options_values_name, pa.options_values_price, pa.price_prefix from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_ATTRIBUTES . " pa, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_VALUES . " pov where pa.products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'] . "' and pa.options_id = '" . (int)$products_options_name['products_options_id'] . "' and pa.options_values_id = pov.products_options_values_id and pov.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "' order by pov.products_options_values_name asc");

 

Basically you're just adding that "order by..." line at the end.

 

To get a space in the categories box open catalog/includes/boxes/categories.php and search for this line:

 

$categories_string .= '<br>';

 

Replace it with this:

 

$categories_string .= '<br><img src="x.gif" width="1" height="5"><br>';

 

It won't be able to find the image, but it isn't going to show up anyway as long as the width is 1. To adjust the space just play with the height value.

[joekalis]

Well, that definitely worked. However, I was just wanting an extra line break here and there, such as...

 

Category 1

 

Category 2

Category 3

Category 4

 

Category 5

Category 6

 

 

possible?

[Zarathud]

Then just replace <br> with <p> or <br><br>.

[Zarathud]

Nevermind, I misunderstood. I don't know how to do it like that.