how do I make "buy it now" link in featured products on the front page?

[graper]

This also applies to specials and new this month items.

How do I make a "buy it now" link for a product that is in a "featured item", "Specials", and "New This Month" center box that is found on the front page?

I can't seem to find it in the admin area. I'd be happy with an "Add to Cart" link if that's all that can be done.

Another link I need to know how to make is a more info button that links to the items itself.

Also does Zen cart have a function to display the first [x many] characters in a description field already built in or do I need to build my own. The last thing I want to have happen is a breaking of a table or a div that was put into the description and have it not be closed just because I did a substring.

[kobra]

How do I make a "buy it now" link for a product that is in a "featured item", "Specials", and "New This Month" center box that is found on the front page?

These are in the admin but I can not attest to their function:

Admin > confuguration > Featured Listing > Display Product Buy Now Button
Same for other listings.

Another link I need to know how to make is a more info button that links to the items itself.

You should check the current function as even if there is not a more info, clicking the image and other areas of a listing takes you to the Product Info page.

Also does Zen cart have a function to display the first [x many] characters in a description field already built in or do I need to build my own.

This is also in the admin for several of the product screens like the product listing page:
Admin > configuration > product listing > Display Product Description

The last thing I want to have happen is a breaking of a table or a div that was put into the description and have it not be closed just because I did a substring.

Describe this in specific detail???

[graper]

These are in the admin but I can not attest to their function:

Admin > confuguration > Featured Listing > Display Product Buy Now Button
Same for other listings.

unfortunatly this refers to the listing when you get into Featured Items from the category list. I've had to customize the featured_products.php file to change how list looks. I've made a customized buy now button and more info button. Also the description was not being displayed and I had to add that too.

You should check the current function as even if there is not a more info, clicking the image and other areas of a listing takes you to the Product Info page.

I wanted to add a button regardless of the links that were already there. I got that done with some customization of the featured_products.php file.

This is also in the admin for several of the product screens like the product listing page:
Admin > configuration > product listing > Display Product Description

the problem is that in Admin > configuration > featured listing secion controls only the listing that looks like the product listing. The center boxe for featured products on the front page are not crontrolled through this UI and does not have a customization setup that I desire. No probelm, I'm a programmer I can go in and find out where it is and make my own customizations. If you look at the page http://markham.kirkhamsystems.dyndns.org you will see that I have a customized "featured products" center box. There is no way to display descriptions, add to cart buttons or more info buttons to the center box. the suggestion you give leads to the next quote.

Describe this in specific detail???

in Admin > configuration > product listing > Display Product Description one is able to control the amount of the description that is displayed on the listing. Since I want this on the front page, I would like to know what function(s) are used to do this as I beleive the system would take into account HTML code and properly strip and replace codes if necessary.

For example if there is 300 characters in a descriptions, and some of that is HTML like <table...><tr><td>some text</td></tr><tr><td> ... text at the end </td></tr></table> if I just go in and do a substring of the first 20 characters all I get is <table ...><tr><td>some text </tr>(end of substring) all of a sudden I got a broken table and that is what I want to avoid. I think I may have found the function(s) I want but it looks like it strips the html away and provides an unstructured string. it's
zen_trunc_string(zen_clean_html(stripslashes(zen_get_products_description($listi ng->fields['products_id'], $_SESSION['languages_id']))), PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION)

[kobra]

Granville,
Sorry for the simplistic response that I posted, had you stated that you were a programmer and customizing the displays, I either would not have posted or posted in a different manner.

A very nice implementation of ZenCart that you have assembled!! I believe that their is a showcase where your site can be displayed as one that uses ZenCart. There are very few restrictions for this and you might consider doing this. Many considering ZenCart need great examples to convince employers, clients or others that this cart is a good chioce.

Also, as the base cart script was opensourced for your use, you might consider assembling this as a contribution for others that might be wishing for something like this, and give back to the community if you so choose.

Great work!

[graper]

A very nice implementation of ZenCart that you have assembled!! I believe that their is a showcase where your site can be displayed as one that uses ZenCart. There are very few restrictions for this and you might consider doing this. Many considering ZenCart need great examples to convince employers, clients or others that this cart is a good chioce.

Also, as the base cart script was opensourced for your use, you might consider assembling this as a contribution for others that might be wishing for something like this, and give back to the community if you so choose.

Great work!

Sorry to take so long to respond back on this, been busy. Thanks for the compliment and I'll deffinatly look into the showcase, maybe it will drum up some business for my company.

[cjmarley]

Would you be willing to share how you did this with me? It would be so deeply appreciated!!!

CJ

[reap]

I have also been killing myself trying to make the features list on the main center page show descriptions and buy now/info button.

graper I checked out your http://markham.kirkhamsystems.dyndns.org/

can you please share your featured_products.php or whatever you did to make it work.

Pretty please!! I am going insane.

Thanks!

[graper]

I got another PM today about how to make a buy now link. here is the code to make a buy now/add to cart link.

<a href="' . zen_href_link( $_GET['main_page'], 'products_id=' . $product_id .'&action=buy_now') . '">' . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BUY_NOW, BUTTON_BUY_NOW_ALT) . '</a>

if you're looking for a quick guide on how to change the layouts of the featured products, new products, or specials, then check out this page.

[milkyway]

I also use the same code for one of my project,

'<a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BUY_NOW, BUTTON_BUY_NOW_ALT) . '</a>&nbsp;'; 

However I found an issue, when the product is out of stock the 'Buy now' button still show up, of course because I don't put any IF statement for it.

Can somebody help me to share what the IF statement we shall put to check whether the stock is 'sold out' or not? So zencart can replace the Buy now button with Sold Out button if the item is out of stock.

I tried to figure out but couldn't find it... really appreciate all helps

Thanks!

[milkyway]

Any helps?