Product Listing page

[autoace]

Besides this tutorial is there any other way of controlling which sideboxes show up on which pages.

I have one sidebox that I would like to ONLY display on the product listing page.

[gjh42]

You would use the principles of the tutorial, but change
($this_is_home_page)
to something like
($current_page_base == 'index' and $_GET['cPath'] != '')

There may be a better way of stating it, but that would be the general approach. There is more info like this in the comments at the top of tpl_main_page.php as well.

[autoace]

You would use the principles of the tutorial, but change
($this_is_home_page)
to something like
($current_page_base == 'index' and $_GET['cPath'] != '')

There may be a better way of stating it, but that would be the general approach. There is more info like this in the comments at the top of tpl_main_page.php as well.

TY, Glenn - its a starting point. Ill report back here with some results for others

[autoace]

TY, Glenn - its a starting point. Ill report back here with some results for others

Glenn,

Now say for the sub-cats, if I wanted to do the same thing, I believe it would be something like:

if (in_array($cPath,explode(",",'1,1_12')) )

Am I headed in the right direction?

Or if on the sub-cats I merely wanted to change the width of the column, I could do that via css, correct? something like 1_12.css ?

Thanks for your help.

[autoace]

You would use the principles of the tutorial, but change
($this_is_home_page)
to something like
($current_page_base == 'index' and $_GET['cPath'] != '')

There may be a better way of stating it, but that would be the general approach. There is more info like this in the comments at the top of tpl_main_page.php as well.

Hi Glenn,

I followed your advise and changed the line to what you gave and then included 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 in the single quotes for the cPath. However, its not working the way I want it to.

I just want the sidebox, product_filter.php to show up on the product listing pages for the categories.

I named the variable name from 'featured' to 'product_filter" because thats the name of the file for the sidebox.

What am I doing wrong?

[gjh42]

I can't be sure which part of the test is failing without seeing the whole "if" statement.

Re post 4, both approaches would work. The stylesheet name would be c_1_12.css .

[autoace]

I can't be sure which part of the test is failing without seeing the whole "if" statement.

Re post 4, both approaches would work. The stylesheet name would be c_1_12.css .

Here is the if statement:

if ($current_page_base == 'index' and $_GET['cPath'] != '1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10') {
    $show_product_filter = true;
  } else {
    $show_product_filter = false;
  }

Thanks for the help.

[gjh42]

$_GET['cPath'] != '1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10'

This won't work - you need to use the explode for the list of cats.

in_array($cPath,explode(",",'1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10'))

if ($current_page_base == 'index' and in_array($cPath,explode(",",'1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10')) ) {
    $show_product_filter = true;
  } else {
    $show_product_filter = false;
  } 

If you want to include all subcats as well, you can truncate the value of cPath for the test with (int)

in_array( (int)$cPath,explode(",",'1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10'))