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    red flag display featured PRODUCT on main page

    Hi Zen people,

    I have a slight situation, i am trying to setup a small store with only a handful of items. I need to show only one product as a featured item and that should be on the main page. I have tried every possible method, read numerous threads in detail but
    Rather than going to the featured product directly it shows "Featured Products" box on the main page and then a second click will take you to the featured product page, i want it to go straight to the item. Please help i shall be really thankful.

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    mimran
    p.s. i was under the impression 'featured products' do have a category i.e. category id # 22, and if in the 'layout' i said start main page with '22' it should work but seems like i was wrong long way.

    An asap help will be HIGHLY HIGHLY appreciated

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    Default Re: display featured PRODUCT on main page

    You could edit your DEFINE PAGE (MAIN PAGE) and by cobbling together a little html, insert your FEATURED product there.

    Okay, so it's a bit of manual editing when you want to change your featured product, but as you only have a few items, this should be simple.

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    Default Re: display featured PRODUCT on main page

    Hi
    Thankyou for the reply can you please give me an example of the HTML code?
    regards

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    Default Re: display featured PRODUCT on main page

    sorry, further more that is not really going to solve my problem, that is hard coding it, i want it to be automated, and i am more than positive it is easily do able e.g. if i said in layout 'mainpage' open category 2_1 (category 2, item 1) it works

    based on same principle there has to be a way

    regards

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    Default Re: display featured PRODUCT on main page

    Do you want the FEATURED products to appear on the main page (in the centre column), in a random order?

    So if you designate 3 products as FEATURED, you want them to appear on the main page in much the same way as they appear in the featured side box?

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    Default Re: display featured PRODUCT on main page

    give me two mins i am just going to take a few screen dumps of how it looks to how i want it to look

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    Default Re: display featured PRODUCT on main page

    i am not concerned random or not i just want it to the first product listed as featured item and open on the product page
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    Default Re: display featured PRODUCT on main page

    So, when someone goes to your webshop, the screen opens up with the FEATURED sidebox, showing a featured product.

    The SAME featured product is then displayed in the centre column, in the same way that it would be under its "product listing" format.

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    This will (I believe) require a fair bit of custom PHP coding, and you may wish to post a request in the "Commercial Help Wanted" area.

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    Default Re: display featured PRODUCT on main page

    you could be right but i beg to differ.
    Do you know what is the master Category for featured products?
    If i can find out the category number that will resolve the problem.

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    Default Re: display featured PRODUCT on main page

    I don't think Featured products are placed in a "category". The function is controlled by a database "switch" that enables several php files to perform call functions off the data in the database.

    If the database "switches" are turned ON via admin panel (eg, the featured product sidebox, coupled with all the products that have been designated "featured"), then the relevant php files kick into life and do their work.

    These will (amongst others), involve:-

    includes\modules\featured_products.php
    includes\modules\sideboxes\featured.php
    includes\templates\template_default\templates\tpl_featured_products_default.php
    includes\templates\template_default\templates\sideboxes\tpl_featured.php

    ...Suggest you open up each of these to see their php structure, and this may help you develop some custom code to put into other php files that render the index page.

 

 
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