Show product description on main-page?

[gustafr]

Hi,

Is there a switch in admin to make the product-description show on the main-page on featured products? It only shows product name and price.
I have found out how to control the featured product listing but not how to adjust this on the index-page.

/G

[gjh42]

If you are using v1.3.x, the featured listing can be set to display the first 150 characters of the description, in Configuration > Featured Listing > Display Product Description.

If you are wanting something other than this, please explain or post a url to the place you mean.

[Ajeh]

While the Listings each have an option for the products_description to be displayed ... the Center Boxes do not have built in the products_description ...

You can customize these to include this information ... however, there is not a switch for the Center Boxes to include the products_description at this time ...

[reap]

could you point us in the right direction? I am having a hell of a time getting the featured_products.php to show the descriptions and adding a buy now button. I see a few people who want to do the same thing but no one is showing us n00bs how to. I have been trying to figure out how for about 4 hours now with no luck.

help!

[Ajeh]

Might peek at how the product listing or new product listing or all product listing or featured product listing are so smart and adjust the center boxes to be equally smart ...

[etrader]

To add the product description to the featured centrebox, I guess you would need to edit the following code in modules/featured_products.php and maybe also add some code to the sql query.

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$list_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('params' =>'class="centerBoxContentsFeatured centeredContent back"' . ' ' . 'style="width:' . $col_width . '%;"',
'text' => '<a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($featured_products->fields['products_id']), 'products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $featured_products->fields['products_image'], $featured_products->fields['products_name'], IMAGE_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_LISTING_WIDTH, IMAGE_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_LISTING_HEIGHT) . '</a><br /><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($featured_products->fields['products_id']), 'products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . $featured_products->fields['products_name'] . '</a><br />' . $products_price);
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Can someone show us how to adjust the code so it displays the same as the featured product listings?