featured.php help

[lchoate]

Hello, I wonder if someone could give me a clue...

I have been following the thread regarding turning off the featured sidebox for the home page. Well, I have followed those instructions and I do understand php (mostly) but oddly enough, I can't get either /includes/modules/sideboxes/featured.php or the override for my own template... /includes/modules/sideboxes/mytemplate/featured.php to work.

The really strange thing is that if I go in to either one of those files and do an echo "anything"; it doesn't work. I can do something that would break the script but that doesn't work either (meaning it doesn't break). Is it possible that featured.php is being called from somewhere else? Where else could this come from? I'm starting to think I dont know what I'm doing. (:

my development site is at http://www.sdolc.com

Thank you in advance.

[Ajeh]

Delete the files in your overrides directory on the server and then reload the file again ...

Then view the file on the server in your overrides directory ... do you see your changes in the file?

[lchoate]

Hmm, I would have thought this is a browser cache issue except that I cleared the cache in firefox and even tried I.E.

But now I understand even less... I renamed featured.php in both directories to featured1.php Guess what... it not only didn't change, it didn't even break and still shows the featured products.

Well, I know there is a cache defined in configure.php does that actually cache pages or create a "compiled" page that it calls if something breaks?

Am I on the right track there?

[jgamio]

I just start with zen cart three weeks ago but I hope this can help you
( I am working in the featured too)


Are two featured Main and the sidebox. I dont know wich one you want to work but I worked in this way


1) Main Featured use this files ( maybe i am wrong but work to me)

1.1
/includes/templates/MYTEMPLATE/templates/tpl_modules_featured_products.php
1.2
/includes/modules/MYTEMPLATE/featured_products.php

1.1 Just define the main <div> to show the products you can change the class to be a diferent backgroung color or something else

1.2 Read the DB products a show how each product is show you can change their template to configurate how each product is to be showed for example you can move the price to the right

2) the sideboxes If you turn off Why do you want to change it ?
but I used just

/includes/templates/MYTEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_featured.php


by the way I am using 1.3.6

I hope this help you

[lchoate]

Well thank you both for the replies. The problem is not that I can't get it to show, and I don't really want to turn it off. Its that I want to selectively decide when to show it. For example, I want featured products on my home page, but I want them as part of my content not where the templates put them.

There is a thread related to that in the forums I followed those instructions and the code makes perfect sence but it doesn't work. The real problem is that I am unable to modify the code. I'll change it, save it, it saves, but the cart still shows the same result. Meaning my changes aren't being rendered. It the craziest thing I've ever seen and I've been an asp developer for years.

Thats why I wondered if there is something up with my php or zencart cache that might be rendering the page even if I broke my script. I just dont get it. I restarted IIS on my development box, and uploaded changes to the real webserver and its the same result every where.

I found this great file map, http://studioblackbird.com/ZenCart/ but I still can't figure this out.

Is the problem making more sense now?

[jgamio]

Relax the overriding is complicated at first but after your first site is the easier.


Question

1) Do you create a template? or Do you use the classic template? or
are you coding in the template_default ?


2) let's go to try a small change in the feactured What do you want to change ?