Manufacturers and other dropdown options

[pricediscrimination]

A couple years ago I modified my template, and now I want to add some features back to it, specifically the manufacturers dropdown to sort products on the listing pages. Would anyone be kind enough to help me get the proper code back where it needs to be?

Also wondering if there are any other ways to create sorting orders based on other features such as color, size, etc...

Grateful for any help, thank you!

[kobra]

If you followed the override schema with your template - - then
in your admin >config>Product Listing >Display Category/Manufacturer Filter

If not you need to provide much more information

[pricediscrimination]

Thank you so much. I went to the admin>configuration and the settings you mentioned didn't change anything. So I dug around in the tpl_index_product_list.php file and noticed it was missing a lot of code compared to the stock version. I added the following code after the category description and it worked!

<?php
  $check_for_alpha = $listing_sql;
  $check_for_alpha = $db->Execute($check_for_alpha);

  if ($do_filter_list || ($check_for_alpha->RecordCount() > 0 && PRODUCT_LIST_ALPHA_SORTER == 'true')) {
  $form = zen_draw_form('filter', zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT), 'get') . '<label class="inputLabel">' .TEXT_SHOW . '</label>';
?>

<?php
  echo $form;
  echo zen_draw_hidden_field('main_page', FILENAME_DEFAULT);
  echo zen_hide_session_id();
?>
<?php
  // draw cPath if known
  if (!$getoption_set) {
    echo zen_draw_hidden_field('cPath', $cPath);
  } else {
    // draw manufacturers_id
    echo zen_draw_hidden_field($get_option_variable, $_GET[$get_option_variable]);
  }

  // draw music_genre_id
  if (isset($_GET['music_genre_id']) && $_GET['music_genre_id'] != '') echo zen_draw_hidden_field('music_genre_id', $_GET['music_genre_id']);

  // draw record_company_id
  if (isset($_GET['record_company_id']) && $_GET['record_company_id'] != '') echo zen_draw_hidden_field('record_company_id', $_GET['record_company_id']);

  // draw typefilter
  if (isset($_GET['typefilter']) && $_GET['typefilter'] != '') echo zen_draw_hidden_field('typefilter', $_GET['typefilter']);

  // draw manufacturers_id if not already done earlier
  if ($get_option_variable != 'manufacturers_id' && isset($_GET['manufacturers_id']) && $_GET['manufacturers_id'] > 0) {
    echo zen_draw_hidden_field('manufacturers_id', $_GET['manufacturers_id']);
  }

  // draw sort
  echo zen_draw_hidden_field('sort', $_GET['sort']);

  // draw filter_id (ie: category/mfg depending on $options)
  if ($do_filter_list) {
    echo zen_draw_pull_down_menu('filter_id', $options, (isset($_GET['filter_id']) ? $_GET['filter_id'] : ''), 'onchange="this.form.submit()"');
  }

  // draw alpha sorter
  require(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory(FILENAME_PRODUCT_LISTING_ALPHA_SORTER));
?>
</form>
<?php
  }
?>
<br class="clearBoth" />

Now the Filter Results By Manufacturers or Items Starting With... are showing!

I was wondering if there are any other things that can be filtered or sorted via dropdown?

[kobra]

I added the following code after the category description

Why are you not using the complete file as delivered??

[pricediscrimination]

Because I started with no coding background and have been hacking away at this for years (which speaks volumes since it seems that browsing this forum most of the links people post of their ZC sites are no longer existing) through updates and theme modifications, and frankly I would be too concerned that other things would break. Thank you very much for the help.

[kobra]

I would be too concerned that other things would break

Seems to me that it is time for you to break out an app like beyond compare or winmerge and correctly make these changes to your site using the override system

Can be done to a copy of your install either in a folder on the server or locally using a wamp install