gallery style layout

[Stewart Schulze]

I have a site that I want to create that would be for selling photoshop templates. I want it to have a gallery of images in rows and columns. just the images the titles are built into the images. When you click on the image you want, it then takes you to the page that has all the info and able to then put it in the shopping cart. is there a template that is set that way?
here is a site that is like what I want
http://www.ashedesign.com/shop/actions/index.html
Thanks Stewart

[schoolboy]

I have a site that I want to create that would be for selling photoshop templates. I want it to have a gallery of images in rows and columns. just the images the titles are built into the images. When you click on the image you want, it then takes you to the page that has all the info and able to then put it in the shopping cart. is there a template that is set that way?
here is a site that is like what I want
http://www.ashedesign.com/shop/actions/index.html
Thanks Stewart

Standard zencart with column display on product listings will give you what you want.

So yes.. in a nutshell Zencart will do this very nicely.

[schoolboy]

One of the picaflor azul templates should work nicely. Some of these already have column display embedded - but if not, it is a relatively simple procedure to add column display.

GO HERE for an example of column grid layout. In this case we show TEXT - but text elements can easily be hidden.

[Stewart Schulze]

Where is the column control for the center part of the page.

[schoolboy]

You have to install a module for it...

http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=3

[Stewart Schulze]

thank you sorry this is just a little confusing . I am trying to run the SQL command Admin->Tools->Install SQL Patches and paste them in the box and click Send. Paste What?

[schoolboy]

I take it you have gotten a COPY of the module from the PLUGINS area, FTP'd it to your home computer, UNZIPPED it and looked at the contents?

You will see:

(FOLDER) includes
(FILE) clg_install.sql
(FILE) clg_uninstall.sql
(FILE) gnu_gpl_license.txt
(FILE) readme_clg2_3_1.txt

I trust you have read the README FILE ? readme_clg2_3_1.txt

And I trust you have sent (FTP) the CONTENTS of the "includes" folder to their correct locations on your zencart installation?

And if the above has been done correctly, then you need to ALTER THE DATABASE slightly. (The "SQL PATCH")

And that BEFORE YOU RUN THE PATCH, you have BACKED UP YOUR DATABASE ?

If this has all been done, then open the file: clg_install.sql in a plain text editor, HIGHLIGHT and copy all the code, and go paste that into the "install SQL patches field.

For easy reference, the CONTENTS of clg_install.sql are shown below...

#Column Layout Grid for Product Listing (Add On Module for Zen Cart v1.5.x) 2012-11-17
#Run the following SQL commands into your database. 
#The easiest way is to open Admin->Tools->Install SQL Patches and paste them in the box and click Send.

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##  If you are installing this plugin for the first time, or upgrading from an earlier version of this module, run this set of SQL statements:

delete from configuration where configuration_key in ('PRODUCT_LISTING_LAYOUT_STYLE');
delete from configuration where configuration_key in ('PRODUCT_LISTING_COLUMNS_PER_ROW');
delete from configuration where configuration_key in ('PRODUCT_LISTING_LAYOUT_STYLE_CUSTOMER');
delete from configuration where configuration_key in ('PRODUCT_LISTING_GRID_SORT');


INSERT INTO configuration (configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, 
       configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, 
       last_modified, date_added, use_function, set_function) 
       VALUES ('Product Listing - Layout Style', 'PRODUCT_LISTING_LAYOUT_STYLE', 'rows', 
               'Select the layout style:<br />Each product can be listed in its own row (rows option)
                or products can be listed in multiple columns per row (columns option)<br />
				If customer control is enabled this sets the default style.', '8', '41', NULL, 
                now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array(\'rows\', \'columns\'),');

INSERT INTO configuration (configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, 
       configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, 
       last_modified, date_added, use_function, set_function) 
       VALUES ('Product Listing - Columns Per Row', 'PRODUCT_LISTING_COLUMNS_PER_ROW', '3', 
               'Select the number of columns of products to show in each row in the product listing.  
               The default setting is 3.', '8', '42', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL);

INSERT INTO configuration (configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, 
       configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, 
       last_modified, date_added, use_function, set_function) 
       VALUES ('Product Listing - Layout Style - Customer Control', 'PRODUCT_LISTING_LAYOUT_STYLE_CUSTOMER', '0', 
               'Allow the customer to select the layout style (0=no, 1=yes):', '8', '43', NULL, 
                now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array(\'0\', \'1\'),');

INSERT INTO configuration (configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, 
       configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, 
       last_modified, date_added, use_function, set_function) 
       VALUES ('Product Listing - Show Sorter for Columns Layout', 'PRODUCT_LISTING_GRID_SORT', '0', 
               'Allow the customer to select the item sort order (0=no, 1=yes):', '8', '44', NULL, 
                now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array(\'0\', \'1\'),');

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[Stewart Schulze]

The readme files are not always well written. Thanks for the help

[schoolboy]

The readme files are not always well written. Thanks for the help

... but in this instance, the readme file is comprehensive, logical and very well written...

If you are unfamiliar with "webmaster" terminology and taxonomy, then you need to go off and do some studying on it. There are lots of places that have excellent free tutorials.

Not long ago I was as green as the next guy with all this stuff, but I took time out to go learn the essentials. Within a few weeks I got sufficiently "informed" and now feel much more confident when tackling this sort of stuff...

This forum cannot "teach" those basis... firstly because they are being taught so well elsewhere, secondly because they are universal concepts (not exclusive to zencart) and thirdly there is an expectation that people who manage their own sites have (at the very least) a "functional" understanding of how to manage their website.

One thing I found incredibly helpful was a "test" website where I could go and make every error possible - without it having the slightest effect on my real site.

Today, after having built over 300 commercial zencart sites, I STILL make a copy of each site BEFORE it goes live, and EVERY modification is tested on that COPY... even if I have put it onto scores of other sites.

In this way I get to learn and minimize the risk of messing up live sites.