Image Titles Support Thread

[crabdance]

ok... here's an update. I have got it to work on everything but:

Who's Online sidebox
New Products [more] sidebox
We Accept... (credit card mod sidebox)

I'm guessing that it's a naming convention error but I have tried most logical name changes and don't seem to be able to come up with one that works.

[crabdance]

Hi again Glenn,

Have got everything working (after reading the instructions again) Thanks for the mod and have a great one!

[barleywine]

Anybody???

I really need some help with this - and I don't know where to start...
I'm sure it's a simple fix, but I really need some help!

Actually, I just looked at the page again and found this error message at the bottom of the index page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: zen_get_generated_category_path_rev() in PATHREMOVED/includes/modules/aubizenred/new_products.php on line 69

Does this help?
Thanks

[gjh42]

I just double-checked, and there is no difference between the stock v1.3.8 version of /includes/modules/new_products.php and the Image Titles version in /includes/modules/your_template/new_products.php except for the comment at the top of the file and the actual mod code on lines 84-87. I don't see how this could cause the reported error on line 69, so I think you need to investigate what other files you might have touched.

The new products mess up only on the home page, and work fine on others, so I doubt it is directly caused by the mod. If you don't need to use image titles for the new products centerbox, you can delete /includes/modules/aubizenred/new_products.php without affecting anything else. (You might try changing it temporarily to /includes/modules/aubizenred/new_products.bak to see if the problem still exists with the default copy of the file.)

[barleywine]

[QUOTE=gjh42;552620
The new products mess up only on the home page, and work fine on others, so I doubt it is directly caused by the mod. If you don't need to use image titles for the new products centerbox, you can delete /includes/modules/aubizenred/new_products.php without affecting anything else. (You might try changing it temporarily to /includes/modules/aubizenred/new_products.bak to see if the problem still exists with the default copy of the file.)[/QUOTE]

Thanks Glenn!
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/images/smilies/clap.gif
I did rename the file and immediately got back my navigation and sideboxes on the home page. I'm still a bit (ok, a lot) confused about what I might've done to other files to mess this up, but I'll keep looking at it.

Now I have another question:
Does this mod allow me to use an image for the top level in the horizontal menu bar? How should I name the images for that?

Thanks again!

[gjh42]

The categories-tabs menu is not covered by this mod. If anything, an extension of the Categories Dressing code would be the thing to handle that.

If you are comfortable poking at PHP, you should be able to transfer the category image substitution code from tpl_categories.php. I'm afraid I don't have the time right now to work on it.

[busyMom]

Hi Glenn,
I just spent a little while changing all of my sidebox titles over to using this mod. Even though I had about 5 or 6 of them successfully coded the manual way, I decided to adopt this more generic approach to give me more flexibility and to make upgrading easier in the future. I hope that someone can convince the ZC folks to make this code part of the base code someday since it just allows for the images but doesn't require them!

Anyway, on to my question. I do have at least one sidebox title that I would like to be a link, but I'd prefer to have a hover image option so that it changes slightly to indicate that it's a link. Can you think of a clever way of accomodating this? I know the mouse cursor changes and I might have to settle for that, but I thought I'd throw out the question. I am using sliding door images in quite a few places elsewhere in my website, but they are all background images. This technique is a foreground image, so I don't think I can use that technique. Any suggestions or thoughts?

I suppose I could make it a background image with blank text for just this one sidebox image. I could probably come up with a way to do it in the css, but your solution is so much prettier!
Thanks, Karen (a fellow upstater for most of my life!)

[crabdance]

After doing yet some more reading I was able to come up with all the answers to my questions. Thanks for your help.

[OJM]

Just installed the image titles mod, but my images 'spill' over the sidebox;



I can't find what could be causing it - I've removed the padding within the css file, but only moved it left slightly.

Any ideas at all please?

Thanks

[gjh42]

The images are used as foreground images, so if they are larger than the "standard" space your title occupies they will expand the header box.

Also, if the standard title has padding, that will be added to the image dimensions. Code to account for this is posted in the Hiding the sidebox heading fonts/links.... thread, post #14.