place manufacturers drop down in header

[limelites]

Can anyone offer a little help on this one, I've tried various combination's of Ajeh's fix above but just can't get it to work :-(

[limelites]

EUREKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's how it's done:

1. From Admin>Tools>LayoutBoxesController.... switch manufacturers sidebox off (unless you also want it showing as a sidebox)... Then, from Admin>Configuration>MaximumValues you'll need to set Manufacturers List - Scroll Box Size/Style to 0 or 1 so that it becomes a drop down menu.

2. Edit /includes/modules/sideboxes/manufacturers.php to replace:

      require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_manufacturers_select.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'sideboxes'). '/tpl_manufacturers_select.php');

    $title = '<label>' . BOX_HEADING_MANUFACTURERS . '</label>';
    $title_link = false;
    require($template->get_template_dir($column_box_default, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common') . '/' . $column_box_default); 

with this:

    require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_manufacturers_select.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'sideboxes'). '/tpl_manufacturers_select.php');

    $title = '<label>' . BOX_HEADING_MANUFACTURERS . '</label>';
    $title_link = false;
    require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_box_header.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common'). '/tpl_box_header.php'); 

3. add the following line to /includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_header.php

<div id="manufacturersContent"><?php require(DIR_WS_MODULES . 'sideboxes/manufacturers.php'); ?></div>

You'll need to play around with the position of this line and maybe the div tags just to get this looking right and so it doesn't screw up the layout (this will depend on how heavily your tpl_header.php file has already been modified) but you should get it in the right position with a bit of trial and error.

4. Add the following to your stylesheet.css

#manufacturersContent {
width: 200px;
height: 11px;
float: right;
font-size: 10.5px;
margin-top: -3px;
} 

Note that this is the styling I used for my own site. You'll obviously have to style and position it to suit your own site.

Hope this helps someone, I'd been messing around with the code for ages before I got a breakthrough!

[Ajeh]

Thanks for the update that you got this working and for posting the specific details on what needed to be done to get this working ...

[limelites]

You're welcome..... I know what it's like looking for a solution on here so if ever I can help someone else solve something then I don't mind taking a couple of minutes to post a thread...

Nothing more annoying than finding a thread when someone says, "it's ok I solved it" and then doesn't explain how :-)

[suehigman]

Thank you for this post! It was exactly what I was looking for.

One quick question....how do I replace the "Please Select" from the drop down.

Thanks
Sue

[limelites]

Easy, search in your english.php for "- please select-" and just change it to whatever you want it to say :-)

[suehigman]

Perfect! Thank You.

[Loter]

Already gone mad, doesn't work for me :-(

Nothing appears on frontend... :-| wtf could it be ?

[Loter]

Already gone mad, doesn't work for me :-(

Nothing appears on frontend... :-| wtf could it be ?

damn ##########, I have no products that's why no manufacturers pops up :-|

[Ajeh]

Thanks for the update ... and don't be too hard on yourself ... many, many people miss that one ... you gotta have Products to display the manufacturers or they didn't make much ...

However ... there is a switch to control what displays in the manufacturers sidebox in the Admin in the Configuration ... Maximum Value ...

Manufacturers List - Verify Product Exist
Verify that at least 1 product exists and is active for the manufacturer name to show

Note: When this feature is ON it can produce slower results on sites with a large number of products and/or manufacturers
0= off 1= on