Page Specific Sideboxes

[saadlive]

Hi there,

I need to make a sidebox that will appear with data that corrisponds to that page. For example if the product is an apple then in a box it will show you different links to news about that product that I could edit.

Any ideas on how to do this?

[DrByte]

This isn't a feature currently built-in to Zen Cart. In fact, it's not a small thing to write either. You may wish to post a commercial-help-wanted post to get a programmer to write it for you.

[wdrwc]

It seems to me, that you can use in your sidebox code the $_GET['products_id'].
If it is set, then you can query an additional table indexed by products_id and get the links you want to display.
The table can be similar to manufacturers_info table.
That part seems easy. But I do not have a clue what you need to write admin module for that.

wdrwc

[swguy]

Perhaps rather than the sidebox, customize tpl_product_info_display.php and add
links based on $current_category_id and $products_id_current.

Or, perhaps, customize tpl_index_product_list and add links based on $cPath.

Good luck,
Scott