place manufacturers drop down in header

[idlerob]

Is it possible to place the manufacturers drop down box in the header of the website?

[tbrides]

did anybody find out how to do this?
I've searched the forums and tried creating it myself - but with no luck?
Please help

[LissaE]

As far as I know it *should* be in Admin>>Tools>>Layout Boxes Controller go to the Manufacturers sidebox one and set it to Single Column Status.....lol hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong

[tbrides]

It does not work.
I'm guessing it will have to be recoded to fit the header??

anybody?

[tbrides]

Hi,
I actually got this to work.
Somebody remind me to post up the solution.

[bigbadboy]

A year later ... I'm reminding you to post the solution!

[pricediscrimination]

any solution?

[Ajeh]

You can customize the manufacturers.php sidebox by changing the box being called from:
$column_box_default

to read:
tpl_box_header.php

Then alter the header for: the tpl_header.php

to include the manufacturers.php sidebox just as it does the search_header.php sidebox ...

Then change the settings on the display of the manufacturers.php sidebox from being a scroll list to a dropdown in your Admin Settings for the Configuration ... Maximum Values ...

Manufacturers List - Scroll Box Size/Style
Number of manufacturers names to be displayed in the scroll box window. Setting this to 1 or 0 will display a dropdown list.

[limelites]

I just opened a new thread about this here.

My apologies for that as I never seen this thread until now... Looks like I am on the right tracks:

If you look at www.dystynction.com you'll see I have the search box positioned in my header bar to the right. I'm trying now to position the manufacturers drop down box just next to this.

In the tpl_header.php I can see what is generating the search box:

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

I have tried to generate the manufacturers list using this just below this in the tpl_header.php file:

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

However, this just causes major problems.... It does not work at all...

Can you please explain what you mean by:

You can customize the manufacturers.php sidebox by changing the box being called from:
$column_box_default

to read:
tpl_box_header.php

Then alter the header for: the tpl_header.php

[limelites]

I tried opening manufacturers.php and changing this:


to this:

    require($template->get_template_dir($column_box_default, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common') . '/' . $column_box_default); 

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

.....as per instructions above..... however, this just causes site malfunction....

Can you please be more specific/accurate as to exactly what to change this line to?

Sorry if I'm missing the obvious, but I'm a total amateur.