How can I use Ultimate Fade-in slideshow v2.1 ?

**Crunch** · 3 Feb 2010, 10:51 PM

Anyone using v2.1 of Ultimate Fade-in slideshow with Zen Cart?
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...nslideshow.htm

I am having an issue with errors when navigating away from the page that has the slideshow and I think it has to do with me placing the <head> script code in the wrong file. I am only going to have the slideshow on the main page.

Here is what I've done so far

1. I've downloaded and renamed the fadeslideshow.js to jscript_fadeslideshow and placed it into my store root (it wouldn't work when placed in /templates/custom_template/jscript/ folder)

2. They state to place the script code in the <head> section of the page. I assume "the page" is the page you want the slideshow on, so I initially placed the code into /includes/languages/english/html_includes/custom_template/define_main_page.php, but that didn't work - nothing happened - no slideshow.

3. I then placed the <head> script code into /includes/templates/custom_template/common/html_header.php and this worked. The slideshow shows up on the main page as expected, BUT as soon as I navigate to another page I receive an error stating:
Error: DIV with ID "fadeshow1" not found on page.

That is because the script is looking for <div id="fadeshow1"></div> on every page as the script is in the html_header.php file and gets called on every page.

I did find a few forum threads from 2007 on folks using an older version 1.5, but it seems that things have changed a bit with the new version as the images are called from a script placed in your <head> section and not the .js file you download from dynamic drive.

I am a bit perplexed now on how to really setup this version with Zen Cart.

**kobra** · 3 Feb 2010, 11:26 PM

An idea

Custom tpl_main & html_header can be used in override folders named for the page
i.e.
login
checkout
checkout_success
etc

The is a folder name for the home page
I think it is home but might be index???
Try it and see what results

**Crunch** · 4 Feb 2010, 12:11 AM

Do you mean the folders in /includes/modules/pages ? I see an /index folder in there.

What file should I put in there? I moved the edited html_header.php file that I had at /includes/templates/custom_template/common/html_header.php into the /includes/modules/pages/index folder. The slideshow disappeared from the main page.

Maybe I should be putting the <head> code in a different file ?

**gjh42** · 4 Feb 2010, 01:58 AM

/includes/templates/your_template/pagename/html_header.php

**Crunch** · 4 Feb 2010, 02:39 AM

Thanks for the clarification as I was going off track.

Is the main home page known as index?

I created a /index folder so now I have:
/includes/templates/my_template/index/

I moved html_header.php into that folder so now I have:
/includes/templates/my_template/index/html_header.php

The slideshow works again, BUT it's doing the same thing as in my original post. As soon as I navigate to any other page away from the homepage, the error pops up (Error: DIV with ID "fadeshow1" not found on page.).

So, that code in html_header.php is somehow being carried across site-wide.

Unless, the main page is not known as index?

NOTE:
Further clarification is that I have the slideshow being called from the define_main_page.php file. That is where I have placed, <div id="fadeshow1"></div> as it seemed like the best file to use to call the slideshow to display on only the home page.

**gjh42** · 4 Feb 2010, 02:46 AM

The home page and all the category listing and product listing pages are named index. As far as I know, there is not a distinct name for the home page folder (though for per-page stylesheets, index_home.css does work, and the CSS body id for the home page is #indexHomeBody vs. #indexBody for other index pages).

You may be able to wrap a PHP test around the script call in the head, like
<?php
if($this_is_home_page){
?>

the script code

<?php
}
?>

This would only let the script be invoked on the homepage.

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