Product Notification In Product Info Page?

[chrx]

Picking up from the now-archived thread:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34691

I asked if the Product Notifications sidebox content could be copied into an available table cell on the Product Info page (v 1.2.7 and lower)...

Ajeh, in your last reply, you said:
"Get the code from when the sidebox is set to NO ... then write a cute little IF to controll it ... :)"

By this, do you mean I should use the code from both tpl_no_notifications.php and tpl_yes_notifications.php and add the IF, or use only the tpl_no_notifications.php code with an IF?

I have only written very rudimentary IFs to this point, so this ought to be interesting! :)

chrx

[chrx]

Bump for some further suggestions?

Thanks,
chrx

[Ajeh]

That is correct ...

You are making the code work like the sidebox but in the middle of your product _info page ...

So, more or less you need the yes and no portions to accomplish this from the two parts ...

This can be controlled with an IF statement just like the sidebox does now ...

[chrx]

Thanks for throwing me some more clues, Ajeh!

I'm a little closer, and thought I'd run some of my discovery process by you (I hope this sin't too much info all at once)...

My first step was to test the YES and NO first, before adding the IF to see if it functions outside the sidebox environment:

I dropped both the "Notify Me" and "Don't Notify Me" lines from tpl_no_notifications.php and tpl_yes_notifications.php respectively (line 23 in both cases) and both buttons show up together on the page in all cases. The "Notify Me" adds the product to my notification list and the "Don't Notify Me" removes it, just like it is supposed to work (I assume) so it appears the Notify functionality is comfortable outside the sidebox so far. Again, regardless of the current status of the notification, both buttons show up; this because I "forced" them to display by surrounding them in <?php echo ?> functions.

This is how it looks in the my_template/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php file at this point:

---------- begin testing code ----------
<td align="left" colspan="1">

<!-- FROM NO_NOTIFICATIONS -->
<?php echo '<div class="sideBoxContents" align="center"><a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=notify', $request_type) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE_IMAGES . OTHER_IMAGE_BOX_NOTIFY_YES, OTHER_BOX_NOTIFY_YES_ALT) . '</a><br /><a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=notify', $request_type) . '">' . sprintf(BOX_NOTIFICATIONS_NOTIFY, zen_get_products_name($_GET['products_id'])) .'</a></div>'; ?>

<!-- FROM YES_NOTIFICATIONS -->
<?php echo '<div class="sideBoxContents" align="center"><a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=notify_remove', $request_type) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE_IMAGES . OTHER_IMAGE_BOX_NOTIFY_REMOVE, OTHER_BOX_NOTIFY_REMOVE_ALT) . '<br />' . sprintf(BOX_NOTIFICATIONS_NOTIFY_REMOVE, zen_get_products_name($_GET['products_id'])) .'</a></div>'; ?>

</td>
---------- end testing code ----------

So next, based on my understanding of your response, I'll need to remove the <?php echo ?> functions I added here, then add the IF statement from /includes/modules/sideboxes/product_notifications.php

I assume I'll also need to add the $content = ""; from line 22 of tpl_yes_notifications.php and tpl_no_notifications.php to the YES and NO lines here as well, so it appears like this before I add the IF:

---------- begin testing code ----------
<td align="left" colspan="1">

<!-- FROM NO_NOTIFICATIONS -->
$content = "";
$content .= '<div class="sideBoxContents" align="left"><a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=notify', $request_type) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE_IMAGES . OTHER_IMAGE_BOX_NOTIFY_YES, OTHER_BOX_NOTIFY_YES_ALT) . '</a><br /><a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=notify', $request_type) . '">' . sprintf(BOX_NOTIFICATIONS_NOTIFY, zen_get_products_name($_GET['products_id'])) .'</a></div>'; ?>

<!-- FROM YES_NOTIFICATIONS -->
$content = "";
$content .= '<div class="sideBoxContents" align="left"><a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=notify_remove', $request_type) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE_IMAGES . OTHER_IMAGE_BOX_NOTIFY_REMOVE, OTHER_BOX_NOTIFY_REMOVE_ALT) . '<br />' . sprintf(BOX_NOTIFICATIONS_NOTIFY_REMOVE, zen_get_products_name($_GET['products_id'])) .'</a></div>'; ?>

</td>
---------- end testing code ----------

This is my first attempt at a move like this, so I'm trying to track down everything I need to piece this together.

Thanks again,
chrx

[chrx]

Finally figured it all out.

First:
The files involved for this (my) version of the Product Notifications transplant into the Product Info page include:

/includes/modules/sideboxes/product_notifications.php

/templates/template_default/common/tpl_box_default_single.php

/includes/templates/my_template/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php

/includes/templates/my_template/tpl_no_notifications.php

/includes/templates/my_template/tpl_yes_notifications.php


How it went together and code snippets to follow later!

Cheers,
chrx

[Ajeh]

Thanks for the update chrx ... looking forward to seeing what you have done ...