Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

[splieg]

I'd like to show multiple features stacked in a sidebox.....I can't seem to find this anywhere. Does anyone have an idea on how to do this? Basically show 3 or 4 features at once in the right column.

Thanks

[splieg]

Does anyone have some direction for me with this?

[splieg]

Still looking for a answer here....I'm sure someone is doing this. Any takers?

[Ajeh]

Currently the Featured sidebox does a selection of product and then narrows it down to just 1 for display ...

That information is gathered in the:
/includes/modules/sideboxes/featured.php

then it is picked up by the template in:
/includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_featured.php

You would need to alter the first file to get more than 1 featured product, then alter the second file to loop through the gathered products to display the information all in one sidebox ...

[splieg]

Thanks Ajeh,

I've taken your direction and have attempted to play with the code however I must admit that I'm not a php guru. Any more direction would be greatly appreciated. Say I wanted to have 2 featured products show...one on top of the other...what changes would I have to make? I assume that the random call would have to be altered to select 2 products or would we have to add a second random call? And the display would have to show the second feature.....so could we just duplicate the code or is there a simpler method?

Thanks again.

[Ajeh]

Well ... we just built this in to the next release for the Random sideboxes to allow for 1 or more Products to show ...

It will be in the next release for you ...

[splieg]

Am I being foolish in asking when the next release may be? And if this is already coded, is it possible to sure a hack version of this with us?

Thanks again.

[Ajeh]

The next release will be sooner rather than later ... but we cannot give you a precise date on that until we are done ...

As to releasing the code early, no ... not usually in the game plan, sorry ...

[fuzzball172]

Hi, you dont mention which release this will be featured in, as this is an old post, has this feature been added? if no, which release is it scheduled to be added?

Thanks
Fuzzball

[Ajeh]

This will be in the upcoming v1.3.8 release ...