Manufacturers All About Support

[dw08gm]

This thread is for support of the Manufacturers All About v1.0 mod (about to uploaded to plugins).

Description

Manufacturers_All_About combines and updates two previous mods - Manufacturers All Listing and Manufacturers About - and is particularly useful for stores engaging, or wishing to foster relationships with, third-party manufacturers.

Manufacturers_All_About generates two new pages - one to display a listing of all manufacturers in database table manufacturers and the other to display certain information about individual manufacturers. Both pages can display links to the manufacturer's products in your store and to the manufacturer's website. This mod also interacts with the manufacturers and manufacturer_info sideboxes.

The Manufacturers All page is accessed via links inserted into the Categories and/or Manufacturers sideboxes, or by typing into your browswer address bar: http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?...ufacturers_all.

The Manufacturers About page is accessed via the Manufacturers and Manufacturers_Info sideboxes, and the Manufacturers All page.

Admin configuration options are provided under Admin > Configuration > Manufacturers All About.

Page layouts invoke tableless responsive fluid design principles, allowing the pages to fit various screen sizes without forming horizontal scroll bars, all of which is now controlled by CSS.

Cheers

[dw08gm]

Could someone please change the title of this thread from

Manufacturer All About Support

to

Manufacturers All About Support

thanks

[dw08gm]

Now available in plugins

http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1966

[James Bond]

Hi dw08gm,

im currently working on a site that will feature hundreds if not thousands of "manufacturers", I do intend to change this to "Artists" so that I can give each relevant artist their own individual page showcasing their own individual artwork. The page would have a personal profile with picture, etc. Your plugin seems like the perfect mod for that purpose and just wondered if you can see any restraints or limitations, or if indeed this mod is suitable for my purpose. Thanks.

Regards

James

[dw08gm]

Glad you asked. The mod does cater to such situations, although it does have limitations, like not having pagination to split up one long list into smaller (more managable?) pages.

I am currently working on an upgrade that includes:
1. ability to display/not display individual manufacturers (done, but has glitches)
2. ability to sort the display of individual manufacturers (done, but has glitches)
3. ability to not display product link if manufacturer has no products in store (in train)
4. pagination.
5. upgrade similar to zc153 admin/banner_manager.php

However, with limited coding skills, I am just plodding along, and would need help in order to get the upgrade out sooner.

[James Bond]

Thanks for the quick response! It all sounds very interesting and may be what I'm looking for. AmI right in thinking that the listing page, although it has no pagination as yet, could be styled even as single page? Also, would the about page differ greatly from the standard manufacturers products listing page that lists their products when their name is selected? one of my thoughts was to give each artist an EZ page but this seams like the long way round when I imagine it would far easier to just modify the original code to add say a profile picture or bio to the manufacturers product listing page. Forgive my ignorance, I'm very new to Zen, but does this mod work along side the manufacturers product listing page rather than altering that particular page itself?

i hope that post made some sense mate as I've kind of confused myself with it. �� lol