Three Columns Grid for New and All Products Pages
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This is my first attempt at anything like a contribution for zen cart, and while it is working great for me (three columns of items with fairly big thumbnails and no display of description) it may not work for you at all, but ought to give you a jumping off point for making some additional quick tweaks on your own. Furthermore, it has mostly been hacked from the post by pjb923 on 19th April 2007, https://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59938 but the forum also shows many people still struggling with it (as I have) and likewise probably searching contributions in vain as well. These two files get placed in your overlay folder: includes/templates/CUSTOM/templates/tpl_modules_products_all_listing.php includes/templates/CUSTOM/templates/tpl_modules_products_new_listing.php where CUSTOM is the name of your template. They are hardcoded to three columns near the last line of the file; $row_counter==3 actually counts three columns of items so if you have tiny thumbs you might like to change this to a higher number and change the width in the style applied to the class .new_products when you add it to your stylesheet. You will also need to make a tiny edit to the header files for these two pages, includes/modules/pages/products_all/header_php.php includes/modules/pages/products_new/header_php.php In the raw query string, find "m.manufacturers_name" and add ", m.manufacturers_id" after it to capture the data this mod needs for the manufacturer link. Also I added these definitions to my stylesheet, includes/templates/CUSTOM/css/stylesheet.css h3.itemTitle { margin-top: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; } .new_products { float: left; width: 32.5%; text-align: center; padding: 3px 1px; } I also found after many hours of trying to read code that the sequence of the items shown and spaces after each are managed the zen way, in the admin pages Configuration -_ New Listing and Configuration -_ All Listing. I left a single space after all but the last item, and have disabled the space after the item name since this is now tagged as an h3 header. The last item is to visit Configuration -_ Maximum Values and set New Products Listing- Number Per Page and Maximum Display of Products All Page to some attractive multiple of your columns. I used 21. |
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v1.3.8 |
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dweb |
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2,757 |
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