Printable Price list :: support thread

[dealbyethan.com]

It does show on a default install, so I assume the logo file has been removed or something. I can not reproduce this issue. The file is called logo.gif and it normally can be found in one of the subdirectories of includes/templates/

I managed to get logo.gif to appear. The problem was my logo name has been changed to a different one.

About hiding the images within your descriptions: I took a quick look, but the pricelist images do not have a separate wrapper or class, so (indeed) css edits only won't work if your own images can't be identified either.
If you change this (in modules/pricelist/header_php.php)

The "pricelist images" will have their own class, and then you should be able to hide your own (and still display the pricelist images) using css.

(Other changes to this same part of the code will probably be needed to change the layout to your needs.)

I upgraded to the latest version. The header_php.php code has already been changed to what you asked me to change. So then I repeated putting img {display: none;} code at the aforementioned places. The same problem occurred. I can't get hide the images within the description and still display the pricelist images.

Also, how do I show partial description only as some of them are rather long? Is it possible to truncate them after certain length?

Thank you for your help :)

[paulm]

Yeah, I imagined some of the changes would be probably be usefull for me too some day, and then I got carried away and I decided to update after all

I upgraded to the latest version. The header_php.php code has already been changed to what you asked me to change. So then I repeated putting img {display: none;} code at the aforementioned places. The same problem occurred. I can't get hide the images within the description and still display the pricelist images.

I do not see the new .imgPL class when I look at your site (so I assume the latest is installed elsewhere) but it should work like this:

/* hide all images in .imgDescrPL */
.imgDescrPL img {
display: none;
}
/* make .imgPL images visible again */
.imgDescrPL img.imgPL {
display: inline;
}

Also, how do I show partial description only as some of them are rather long? Is it possible to truncate them after certain length?

By default the descriptions are truncated @media print only. Or actually the descriptions are not really truncated, but partially hidden (using css). The advantage is that the HTML (and thus the basic layout) of the descriptions is preserved this way. A disadvantage is that the descriptions are cut off without a "more info available" text (or somehing like that) that indicates they are cut off.

A problem with real truncating (which is not supported by the pricelist) is that you need to strip most HTML to keep the code valid, and to make sure it's really truncated to the required size you even need to strip all HTML and change the font to non proportional. And then the descriptions will become one long, usually almost unreadable, line.

Anyway I am note sure what you want and if I can help, but hopefully the above clarifies how it currently works and why.

[dealbyethan.com]

/* hide all images in .imgDescrPL */
.imgDescrPL img {
display: none;
}
/* make .imgPL images visible again */
.imgDescrPL img.imgPL {
display: inline;
}

I still still trying to figure out where to put this code because it doesn't achieve what I want. If this can be done, I will then want to truncate description. I believe this can be done. Standard zencart can show list all products this way, i.e. no images in description and truncated description.

[dealbyethan.com]

The following code might be useful to help us figure out how to make description truncated. It's taken from tpl_modules_products_all_listing.php. What do you think?

if (PRODUCT_ALL_LIST_DESCRIPTION != '0') {
        $disp_text = zen_get_products_description($products_all->fields['products_id']);
        $disp_text = zen_clean_html($disp_text);

        $display_products_description = stripslashes(zen_trunc_string($disp_text, 150, '<a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($products_all->fields['products_id']), 'products_id=' . $products_all->fields['products_id']) . '"> ' . MORE_INFO_TEXT . '</a>'));
      } else {
        $display_products_description = '';
      }

[dealbyethan.com]

Success! :) :) :)

Managed to achieve what I want.
- Display description without within images.
- Display truncated description with more info link at the end.
- Hyperlink thumbnail product image.

There is one more thing I would like to do...
Is it possible to show subcategories in the dropdown menu?

[paulm]

There is one more thing I would like to do...
Is it possible to show subcategories in the dropdown menu?

That is possible (by changing some lines of code). The only thing is that the categories that have subcats won't show products anymore then (the pricelist will just show the "no products found" message). So if you show the list to your customers that might confuse them.


@highlander2:

Every second page printed is blank. The list continues uninterupted on the page after that. Why?

That happens when your available papersize height (height minus margins etc) is less than the height set in the stylesheet.


Maybe I will release another update soon which will add an admin configuration for the subcategories dropdown and ad admin configuration for the paper height setting.

The only real solution to the memory problems is to get a limited number of products of course. But I am am not sure if/when I will get to that (a total rewrite would probably the best solution, the way this currently works is a mess...).

[barco57]

In my case we don't want to show the pricelist to customers. We want to use it to generate a hard copy catalog to take to shows. My sub-cats should be small enough to avoid the memory problem.