Add text area for Featured Products on home page

[barendfaber]

I am working on www.cksperformance.com. On the home page, we have Featured products. What I would like to do is add a text area between the heading Featured Products and the actual products. The type of featured products will change every month and the customer would like to write a bit more info for his customers.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Ajeh]

3 ways to do it is to customize the tpl_modules_featured_products.php in your templates and overrides and use one the the 3 methods in RED:

<?php if ($zc_show_featured == true) { ?>
<div>My unique text is here</div>
<div><?php echo FEATURED_PRODUCTS_CUSTOM_TEXT; ?></div>
<div><?php
  $define_page = zen_get_file_directory(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $_SESSION['language'] . '/html_includes/', FILENAME_DEFINE_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_CUSTOM, 'false');
  require($define_page); ?>
</div>
<div class="centerBoxWrapper" id="featuredProducts">

The first one, just keep changing this file when needed with the text wanted ...

The second method add a define to something like:
/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/my_extra_defines.php

by placing this in the file:

<?php
define('FEATURED_PRODUCTS_CUSTOM_TEXT', 'This is my custom featured text');

Or the third method, make a define for the define file:
/includes/extra_datafiles/my_extra_filenames.php

<?php
define('FILENAME_DEFINE_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_CUSTOM', 'define_featured_products_custom');

and make a blank file:
/includes/languages/english/html_includes/define_featured_products_custom.php

/includes/languages/english/html_includes/your_template_dir/define_featured_products_custom.php

and set that to 777 and you can edit it in the Admin in the Tools ... Define Page Editor ...

[barendfaber]

You are simply the best!!!!!! All done, the text will now show on my home page! Thank you very much!

[Ajeh]

You are most welcome ... thanks for the update that this worked for you ...

[mutinyzoo]

Using method 3 above, I encountered a problem where the copy in define_featured_products_custom.php was replacing the copy in all of the other pages (about us, privacy, shippinginfo, etc). changing the function (variable?) name from $define_page to $define_my_page did the trick.