styling product listing pages with column layout grid

[gjh42]

That is very strange. Your two categories are displaying in very different ways - Airbox & Filters with grid-type elements in a rows table layout, Belts in a completely stock rows layout. Do you know why that is happening? Did it happen before? I remember seeing the group of discount tables above the listing, but don't remember what style the listing elements took then.

The fact that they are behaving differently in response to the quantity coding, with Airbox & Filters not showing at all while Belts is missing only the price, is understandable because the grid coding accumulates the whole product before adding to $list_box_contents while the rows coding adds each element of the product as it is created. Somehow the fact that the quantity code is executing wipes out everything that is being done then.

We need some debugging. Add to the quantity code

echo $qdt . '<br />';

just before

$lc_price = $qdt;//gjh42 20121127

We also need to know why the listings are outputting in different formats. That is puzzling and could be causing any number of unknown problems, and it may not be possible to debug the apparent problem until that is sorted out.

[idc1]

sorry about the confusion, I have some custom coding that allows me to hard code based on category id whether I want it to show up in grid format or the stock row format. This actually works well besides the obvious maintenance side of it. It was this way before, but you probably did not notice because of all the discount items grouped at the very top.

Do you need our would you like to see that bit of coding allowing the 2 layouts?

The echo $qdt . '<br />'; bit of coding has been added and populated the discounts at the top as before.

[gjh42]

At least I can see that the $qdt code in tpl_modules_products_quantity_discounts_list.php is all working correctly. That means that the issue has to be in how the result is being processed in product_listing.php. Can you post the whole case section where you added the quantity code? Use PHP code tags (icon on the right above textbox) to make it more legible.

[gjh42]

I created a test account so I could see pricing in the discount tables, and see that they don't work correctly when prices display. For some reason,

  if ($zc_hidden_discounts_on) {
    $qdt .= '  <table border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
    <tr>
      <td colspan="1" align="center">
        ' . TEXT_HEADER_DISCOUNTS_OFF . ' 

works perfectly to start the table, but the same opening code

  } else { 
    $qdt .= '  <table border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
    <tr>
      <td colspan="' . $columnCount+1 . '" align="center">
        ';
  switch ($products_discount_type) {
    case '1':
      $qdt .= TEXT_HEADER_DISCOUNT_PRICES_PERCENTAGE; 

loses all of the

'  <table border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
    <tr>
      <td colspan="'

when outputting prices. Try changing this line

      <td colspan="' . $columnCount+1 . '" align="center"> 

to this

      <td colspan="' . ($columnCount+1) . '" align="center"> 

[gjh42]

(When I think about it, it is obvious that the original code was adding all of the initial string (with integer value 0) to 1 and getting 1 as an arithmetic result, then continuing with the string accumulation onto '1'.)

[gjh42]

By the way, your alternate category layout code is not working quite right. It is still handling the grid output as if it were rows content. You need to add some code to tpl_modules_product_listing.php to switch the processing there as well as in product_listing.php.

[idc1]

At least I can see that the $qdt code in tpl_modules_products_quantity_discounts_list.php is all working correctly. That means that the issue has to be in how the result is being processed in product_listing.php. Can you post the whole case section where you added the quantity code? Use PHP code tags (icon on the right above textbox) to make it more legible.

        case 'PRODUCT_LIST_PRICE':
        $lc_price = zen_get_products_display_price($listing->fields['products_id']) . '<br />';
        $lc_align = 'right';
        $lc_text =   $lc_price;
//        $lc_text =   ' MSRP ' . $lc_price;
//TM trying ajeh code

//      $lc_align = 'right';
    $lc_price = $products_discount_type = zen_products_lookup($listing->fields['products_id'], $what_field = 'products_discount_type');  
    if ($products_discount_type != 0) {
      $rows++;
      $products_id_current = (int)$listing->fields['products_id'];
      $quantityDiscounts = array();
      $products_discount_type_from = zen_products_lookup($listing->fields['products_id'], $what_field = 'products_discount_type_from');
require(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory(FILENAME_PRODUCTS_QUANTITY_DISCOUNTS));
require($template->get_template_dir('/tpl_modules_products_quantity_discounts.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_products_quantity_discounts_list.php'); ///tpl_modules_products_quantity_discounts_list.php contrib by gjh42 20121127
echo $qdt . '<br />';
$lc_price = $qdt;//gjh42 20121127
}
else
{ $lc_price = zen_get_products_display_price($listing->fields['products_id']) . '<br />';

$lc_align = 'right';
$lc_text = $lc_price;}

//ending ajeh code 

[idc1]

<td colspan="' . ($columnCount+1) . '" align="center"> 

I made this change on line 34 and 75 in the tpl_products_quantity_discounts_list.php

[idc1]

By the way, your alternate category layout code is not working quite right. It is still handling the grid output as if it were rows content. You need to add some code to tpl_modules_product_listing.php to switch the processing there as well as in product_listing.php.

Thank you for catching this. It seems as though I had the override version in the wrong location so it was still using the default file. I have moved it to the correct folder but evidently there is something wrong b/c I have 0 results.

I'm going to try and find the original post on this and see where I goofed. Probably missing syntax.

[idc1]

Thank you for catching this. It seems as though I had the override version in the wrong location so it was still using the default file. I have moved it to the correct folder but evidently there is something wrong b/c I have 0 results.

I'm going to try and find the original post on this and see where I goofed. Probably missing syntax.

I have the correct file in the correct override location now and am getting NO error logs in my cache folder. I still have the layout issue though.