Default Specials Page

[jettrue]

To add to what I just said, I refer back to the post where that person also experienced what I experienced as well. So I started counting the braces and yours is correct 4 open 4 close. So he too deleted one from yours thinking you put one too many but that is not the case...

Well, that was old code... old code had one too many, the new code does not have one too many.

[mvstudio]

I've tried using the changes provided here but they just didn't work at all. So I changed some things here and there to make it work. The changes below make the specials page display with or without specials in it, a must for those of us who like to add images of coupons and promo codes to our specials page.

STEP 1. open includes/modules/pages/specials/main_template_vars.php

Find:

  $num_products_count = $specials->RecordCount();
  if ($num_products_count) {
    if ($num_products_count < SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS || SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS==0 ) {
      $col_width = floor(100/$num_products_count);
    } else {
      $col_width = floor(100/SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS);
    } 

Replace with:

//show page even if no specials
$num_products_count = $specials->RecordCount();
if ($num_products_count > SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS || SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS==0 and $num_products_count!=0) {
$col_width = floor(100/$num_products_count);
$col_width = floor(100/SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS);
} else {
if ($num_products_count == 0) {
$col_width = floor(100/SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS);
} 

STEP 2. open up includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_specials_default.php

Find:

    <h1 id="specialsListingHeading"><?php echo BOX_HEADING_SPECIALS; ?></h1>

Replace with:

    <h1 id="specialsListingHeading"><?php echo BOX_HEADING_SPECIALS; ?></h1>
    <?php echo TEXT_SPECIALS_PAGE; }?>

STEP 3. You need to add a define for the above code. Open up includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/english.php

Add this:

define('TEXT_SPECIALS_PAGE', 'Add any images or text you want to display here.'); 

Instead of step 3 above I've hardcoded my tpl_specials_default.php file. It's up to you.

You can see one of my specials page here http://www.byvalenti.com/index.php?main_page=specials

Hope someone can find this helpful.