showing "Starting at:" in Product listing

[dbltoe]

If you can't find any in the tpl files, it won't do any good for me to tell you anything as TM has done their usual.

Better talk with them.

That's the thing with TM; they look great till you LOOK at them.

[jymontoya]

I'm wondering if anyone else wouldn't mind looking at this for me?

The "Starting At:" text only appears on the product info pages, but not on the product listing pages.

Yes, it's a Template Monster template, but I've been able to figure out modding it so far, and I'm pretty new at this! I figure one of you experts would be able to figure it out easy.

I can't even figure out where exactly the product info pages are getting the "Starting At:" text from. I'm guessing a module, but alas, no luck finding it yet.

[dbltoe]

The "experts" don't have any way of seeing the "mess" that needs to be fixed.

Have you tried temporarily swwitching to classic to see if the problem goes away?

[jymontoya]

The "experts" don't have any way of seeing the "mess" that needs to be fixed.

Have you tried temporarily swwitching to classic to see if the problem goes away?

Errr, no?
Switching to classic sounds scary. Won't this overwrite some files?

[jymontoya]

Well, I figured out a workaround for the featured_products: (Changes in RED)

/includes/modules/MY_TEMPLATE/featured_products.php

$list_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('params' =>'class="centerBoxContentsNew centeredContent back"' . ' ' . 'style="width:' . $col_width . '%;"',
'text' =>

'<div class="product_list">
<div class="side-left-c">
<div class="side-right-c">
<div class="side-top-c">
<div class="side-bot-c">
<div class="left-top-c">
<div class="right-top-c">
<div class="left-bot-c">
<div class="right-bot-c">
<div class="center_indent">
<div class="left" style="width:' . $img_col_w . 'px;">' . $products_img . '</div>
<div class="right" style="margin-left:-' . ($img_col_w) . 'px;">
<div style="margin-left:' . ($img_col_w) . 'px;">
<div class="name">' . $products_name . '</div>
<div class="text">' . $products_desc . '</div>
<div class="left-top-price">
<div class="right-top-price">
<div class="left-bot-price">
<div class="right-bot-price">
<div class="price">Starting At: &nbsp;&nbsp;' . $products_price . '</div>
<div class="button">' . $products_######## . '</div><br class="clear" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>'

);

}

But now I can't figure out how to do the same thing in the regular listings....hummmm

[dbltoe]

Congratulations!

You are now a certified Template Monster Programmer!

Switching templates will never overwrite files. Only the "look" will be changed to expose the obvious.

[jymontoya]

Ya! Wait till they get my bill! I've fixed / modified so many things at this point, they really should refund some of my money! If we weren't designers here, and could leave well enough alone, it'd be no big deal, but alas, we are perfectionists!

I switched templates and the Starting At: text still does not appear under category listings. And the listings themselves (product_info) does not actually appear, only a blank background.

EDIT:

It appears the problem must not be with the template if the default one does it too??

This was a GoDaddy Control Panel install of ZenCart. Would that possibly affect this?

[dbltoe]

You still have some switch that's not set right if you don't have the "...more info" flag showing up when you switch to classic. You could use the Developer's Tool Kit and look for the MORE_INFO_TEXT (the variable for more info) and see if it is, first of all, defined properly in the includes/languages/TM_MESS/english.php. Then, you should find it in the includes/modules directory and several includes/templates/TM_MESS/tpl_modules_products_##### files. (should be five) You should see at least eight files in the catalog with that variable. Any extras should be for other templates or they are suspect.

Without pointing the same TM-jaundiced finger at GoneDaddy, I am suspect of any upload that I didn't do. (There seems to be a perfectionist conspiracy going on here)

Fantastico can do a good job, but you never know what important PHP/MySQL/etc setting it decided to ignore.

We control freaks can rest more secure when we "do it ourselves."

I do have a customized zip that I upload through cpanel for those sites I host or build. Like the Zen Cart download, you can extract it to the root, install the program while monitoring settings, and then clean up. (remove install directory, rename admin, etc.)

I have yet to find someone who hasn't had to spend more time and money learning how to fix a TM template than it took to buy it.

Hang in there

[jymontoya]

Thank you for your help!

Did you mean /includes/languages/english.php ????

Line #372 : define('MORE_INFO_TEXT','... more info'); Got it. But it appears this is not being used, as I get "..." not "... more info" Is it possible it's being truncated off?


Are you thinking that this MORE_INFO_TEXT is somehow related to the "Starting At:" text?

EDIT:

errr..... Just thought of something. Found TEXT_BASE_PRICE as defined in english.php... yet PRODUCT_LIST_PRICE is called in product_listing.php

Checking to see if switching that fixes it...

[jymontoya]

Nope. I tried changing instances of PRODUCT_LIST_PRICE to TEXT_BASE_PRICE,in product_listing.php but it didn't work. It doesn't display any price then... And the Description shows up twice.... ughhh...