Short Description show on featured products

[NamSingh]

Has anyone managed to display the short description on the index main page like it shows for New Products??

[Ajeh]

Could you be more specific? A brief peice of the products_description shows on both the Product Listing and New Products when enabled in the Configuration settings ...

[NamSingh]

Ok, on the main Page, Index page of the website. Short Description shows fine for New Products. So you see New Products Center Box, Product name, image, Short description and price.

The code for displaying the same information for featured products and specials center box is not included.

[Ajeh]

Have you an URL that we could perhaps peek at to see what you are seeing?

[NamSingh]

www.lionblade.com

If you look at the first page. The New products have all the Short Description text. I would like to include it on the featured products at the top or "Hot Picks" as I have called it

[Ajeh]

That has been customized to include that ...

You might look in the file:
/includes/modules/new_products.php

Or, check for the override which should be used for this:
/includes/modules/your_template_dir/new_products.php

And see what has been added for that ...

[tbrides]

i've managed to do it.
There's a module for adding the field short description to the products table.
Then I edited the module new products and featured products to add this in.

[NamSingh]

Yeah!! Did it!!

Replace lines 53-57 of file includes/modules/featured.php

with this code

$featured_products->fields['products_name'] = zen_get_products_name($featured_products->fields['products_id']);
$featured_products->fields['products_short_desc'] = zen_get_products_short_desc($featured_products->fields['products_id']);

$list_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('params' =>'class="centerBoxContentsFeatured centeredContent back"' . ' ' . 'style="width:' . $col_width . '%;"',
'text' => (($featured_products->fields['products_image'] == '' and PRODUCTS_IMAGE_NO_IMAGE_STATUS == 0) ? '' : '<a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($featured_products->fields['products_id']), 'products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $featured_products->fields['products_image'], $featured_products->fields['products_name'], IMAGE_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_LISTING_WIDTH, IMAGE_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_LISTING_HEIGHT) . '</a><br />') . '<a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($featured_products->fields['products_id']), 'products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . $featured_products->fields['products_name'] . '</a><br />' . $featured_products->fields['products_short_desc'] . '<br />' .'</a><br />' . $products_price);

[NamSingh]

One other little problem relating to this. I cannot get the text ta align next to the image???

I have tried hacking the code but it just stay's at the bottom. I know I need to align the image to the left and the text will go around it. Anyone shed some light where I should be looking?? It's in the image call somewhere

[tbrides]

I downloaded this module.


Then following this tutorial

to get my short descriptions.
This way you can have customised short descriptions