New Products Layout, and Customisation

[dvasdekis]

Well I'm not sure how far you are lookin to go. I mainly wanted the text on the right side instead of underneath. I got that far.

To be honest I'd be happy with anything. A separator in between the table, so there's some sort of grid alignment would be fantastic, and if there's a way to get it to work programatically, all the better. To fill in some of the spare space below the product name with the beginnings of a description would be overwhelmingly awesome, but if that's too hard then I'm not overly fussed. I think that an add-to-cart button would be superflous though. People will read the description before hitting buy.

If you are happy to share your code, (and from your past efforts it seems like you are! Tabbed products looks awesome and really suits my line of sales, so integrating that is the next job for me) I'd be more than happy with whatever you manage to implement for yourself. Bringing some semblance of neatness to the front page is my overall goal for this bit of work.

[qhome]

To be honest I'd be happy with anything. A separator in between the table, so there's some sort of grid alignment would be fantastic, and if there's a way to get it to work programatically, all the better. To fill in some of the spare space below the product name with the beginnings of a description would be overwhelmingly awesome, but if that's too hard then I'm not overly fussed. I think that an add-to-cart button would be superflous though. People will read the description before hitting buy.

If you are happy to share your code, (and from your past efforts it seems like you are! Tabbed products looks awesome and really suits my line of sales, so integrating that is the next job for me) I'd be more than happy with whatever you manage to implement for yourself. Bringing some semblance of neatness to the front page is my overall goal for this bit of work.

Here is what I have so far:
http://www.unbannable.com/zen/index.php?main_page=index

Note I only changed the Monthly New Products box so far. I have to do the same for:
Monthly Featured, and Monthly Specials but they should be really quick since the bulk of the work was done in the tpl_tabular file.

I am also wondering tho how hard it would be to implement them similar to the way the Configuration->New Listing works so you can use simple 4-char mapping similar to the way it shows up on the New Products, Specials, All products listing pages (which are different than the Monthly displays)

The Additional Images, Customer Also Purchased, and Cross Sell also use the tpl_tabular_php file so I will either have to do it to them as well or make a separate tpl_tabular file for them.

[qhome]

ok i got it on all the "monthly" boxes. Tested with all different column amounts, although any more than 4 will cause massive page stretching so I think it would be wise to look into making the text location configurable so that the user can decide where it should be. I'll also look into adding a short description and add to cart button, making them both user configurable.

[barco57]

I took a peek.....and I have to say most excellent work

[dvasdekis]

I took a peek.....and I have to say most excellent work

Indeed it is. As for how to implement it, that's another matter.

Would it be as simple as copying the tpl_tabular file? Surely there's more to it than that.

[qhome]

Indeed it is. As for how to implement it, that's another matter.

Would it be as simple as copying the tpl_tabular file? Surely there's more to it than that.

Ya it always simple with zen :)

Just copy:

includes/modules/new_products.php
includes/modules/featured_products.php
includes/modules/specials_index.php
includes/templates/YourTemplate/common/tpl_columnar_display.php

into override folders for the main functionality.

I'm still looking at:
- how the number based location thing works but that would still only be a few database entries. that might be saved for an upgrade to the contrib tho
- Adding short descriptions
- Adding more info or Buyitnow link based on if there are attribs or not. Similar to the product_listing page.

[dvasdekis]

Well, I'll keep checking this thread for when you decide to make it public.

Thanks for the effort!

[tajul_ashyqin]

Hi Q,

I really appreciate your effort! It is very nice indeed... What I really like is how you gonna put the 'Add to Cart' or 'More Info' link on it...

[qhome]

Hi Q,

I really appreciate your effort! It is very nice indeed... What I really like is how you gonna put the 'Add to Cart' or 'More Info' link on it...

OK I have this so far:
http://unbannable.com/zen/

- (for new products only at this point) I've removed the quantity add at this point and left only buy now or more info but i may put it back and allow you to choose how you want to display it but the quantity box stuff was taken from the product_listing page which uses a global add to cart button at the bottom when using quantities. So I may either just hack a button in underneath each product or replicate the code method from the product info page instead.

- I've also enabled the ability to put the text to the left, right, or bottom of the image for each the new products, specials, and featured products. (currently showing text to the right)

- I need to make some additional support for additional images and customers also purchased as they use the tpl_columnar as well and need to be updated with supported tables.

[tajul_ashyqin]

OK I have this so far:
http://unbannable.com/zen/

- (for new products only at this point) I've removed the quantity add at this point and left only buy now or more info but i may put it back and allow you to choose how you want to display it but the quantity box stuff was taken from the product_listing page which uses a global add to cart button at the bottom when using quantities. So I may either just hack a button in underneath each product or replicate the code method from the product info page instead.

- I've also enabled the ability to put the text to the left, right, or bottom of the image for each the new products, specials, and featured products. (currently showing text to the right)

- I need to make some additional support for additional images and customers also purchased as they use the tpl_columnar as well and need to be updated with supported tables.

I like it! I think you should expand the 'Buy Now' and '...more info' link to the featured & monthly specials products and if you can add a 'quantity box', its should be helpful.