Attempting to restructure product listings

[Peter M Dodge]

Good morning,
I have spent the better part of the previous week combing through the at-best spotty documentation available for ZenCart and am at my wit's end. I want to restructure product listings from the simple "tile" display into a table-based listing with details for each product. Here is an example from another site:



It would be easy to populate such a table through a php loop but I could not for the life of me figure out how the product variables are exposed and parsed in the listing code.

Help?

Cheers,
Peter M Dodge

[bislewl]

Are you using the Classic template? The row styled layout is standard in zen-cart unless you have a special template. However modifying it to show the other options you have in the screen shot included are not. But that can be pretty easily added, as long as you know which table to call them from. You may need to add additional columns to your databases product tables to record those additional features.

[Peter M Dodge]

Hello,
I am not sure if what I am using could be considered the "Classic" template. I am using the boilerplate template that comes with 1.5.1 that the FAQs suggest using as the basis for a new template.
Cheers,
Peter M Dodge

[bislewl]

under tools -> template selection should be the name of your template "Classic" is the one that is basically the default included.

I assume you have tried configuring your product listing, from here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...roduct_Listing

[Peter M Dodge]

Good morning,
The information I want displayed for the product are displayed, it's a matter of formatting the listing into that sort of list style. In my distribution I only had "classic" and "template_default" templates. The latter of which the documentation suggests copying for creating your own template. I have been able to readily adapt it in just about every other way so far, but not to create the listing I want.

Where can I find this apparently-newer template code?
Cheers,
Peter M Dodge

[bislewl]

Is this not what you are looking for?
http://lambdadesigns.com/zc160/index...dex&cPath=3_10

[Peter M Dodge]

That's essentially the template I started from. I should have been clearer, sorry, but I want the "what's new" section to follow the same list format.

Cheers,
Peter M Dodge

[bislewl]

ohh ok,
This is what i would do.

Copy the file includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_products_new_default.php
Save it to includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_products_new_default.php and then modify it there, this will override the template_default in case you would want that in the future

[Peter M Dodge]

Good afternoon,
Would simply copying the product listing code copy that formatting, or would it be more complicated than that?
Cheers,
Peter M Dodge

[bislewl]

It is slightly different from my experience. However you could take the stock versions of both do a comparison, and then add your changes to the version you wish.