Icon on new items?

[aeolidia]

I've been trying to search for an answer to this, but apparently the word "new" is too short to search on!

Is there a way to display a small icon below the item thumbnail on category pages if the item is new (as specified under Maximum Values > New Product Listing - Limited to ...)?

I can't figure out how to update product_listing.php to check if a product is new.

Thanks!

[Kim]

Anything is possible - but, it is not built in at this time.

[aeolidia]

I don't suppose anyone would know the code that's needed to check if an item is new for the product listing page? :)

[Ajeh]

The easiest way is to add the new image to the display price function ...

Do you want to see the new image everywhere that you see a product with its price displayed?

[aeolidia]

Ack, I never saw the reply to this - still looking for a solution.

Ideally, the "new" icon image would be displayed next to the item title on the category page, but I'll take what I can get. I've been fiddling with the product_listing.php file, but it doesn't seem to be recognizing "$listing->fields['products_date_added']"...

Anyone have a solution for this?

[starrydesigns]

Did anyone figure this out? I am trying to add the word "new" to the side of my new items, but I cannot figure it out.

[lextechs]

Has anyone figured this out or worked on it ?

[Ajeh]

If you look at the functions_prices.php file you will see the line:

  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) { 

There the price is built for the display with the bottom line being:

    return $final_display_price . $free_tag . $call_tag; 

If you changed that to:

    return $final_display_price . $free_tag . $call_tag . '<br />Fred was here'; 

You would see that on all of the prices ...

You could use this same idea to see if the products are new and if so, add a new image on the end ...

This is used in the whats_new sidebox to determin what products are new, you can use an adaption of this select statement to determin if the current product is new ...

  $display_limit = zen_get_new_date_range();
  $random_whats_new_sidebox_product_query = "select p.products_id, p.products_image, p.products_tax_class_id, p.products_price, pd.products_name,
                                              p.master_categories_id
                           from (" . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p
                           left join " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd on p.products_id = pd.products_id )
                           where p.products_id = pd.products_id
                           and p.products_status = 1 " . $display_limit; 

Note: you can cut a lot out of that select statement but the idea is to do the select based on the $display_limit that is built from the zen_get_new_date_range() and if your product comes back, then it is new and you can add the image to the return on the display price function ...

[jascam]

our online store itself is new but the business is not. is there a way to have zen cart check an attribute to determine newness of an item instead of checking when the product was added. this would be HUGE for me.

thanks,
-j