Add Sort Drop Down to Product Listing?

[hanzj]

Hello all,

I have been trying to do this for some time and haven't had much luck. I have noticed a few other people would also like this functionality so I thought I'd try to get a definitive answer if one exists.

I would like to add a sort drop down box (like in the all products page) to the product listing page.

Sort drop down:
http://www.uniqueillumination.com/products_all.html

Added to this product listing page:
http://www.uniqueillumination.com/in...rs-c-1_16.html

Due to the layout of the product listing page, I cannot use the column heading to sort the products by name, price, etc., so the drop down is my only option to sort these products.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Hanz

[hanzj]

Nevermind...I got it.

You just need to add this code:
<?php
require($template->get_template_dir('/tpl_modules_listing_display_order.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_listing_display_order.php'); ?>
<br />

to the tpl_index_product_list.php file.

Hope this help someone.

Thanks,

Hanz

[hanzj]

Nevermind my nevermind..

All that does is add the sort box....it doesn't sort the products.

-Hanz

[hanzj]

Looking at the source of each page, it appears that the page being loaded to do the sorting is incorrect on the product listing.

I can't find how to set the proper page info.

Source from products all:
<div id="sorter">
<label for="disp-order-sorter">Sort by: </label>
<form name="sorter_form" action="http://www.uniqueillumination.com/products_all.html" method="get"><input type="hidden" name="main_page" value="products_all" /> <select name="disp_order" onchange="this.form.submit();" id="disp-order-sorter">

Source from Product Listing(chandeliers page in this example):
<div id="sorter">
<label for="disp-order-sorter">Sort by: </label>
<form name="sorter_form" action="http://www.uniqueillumination.com/" method="get"><input type="hidden" name="main_page" value="index" /> <select name="disp_order" onchange="this.form.submit();" id="disp-order-sorter">

As you can see, the action and value in the chandeliers page point to the index page instead of the chandelier product page.

-Hanz

[Jedward]

Hanz... I want to do the same thing... How did you make it work finaly?

[yongkoom]

Yes... please do tell...

I have the same exact issue...

Sort option works great on All products, Special products, and New Products,

....BUT, I cannot for the life of me get it to work on product listing page :-(

Can any of you super Zenners shed some light here?

Regards!

[bearaman]

Adding my call for this change. I would like to add the "All Products" listing sort dropdown to my Product Listing. Does anybody know how to do this?
Thanks,
Bearaman

[pensive612]

I will third that call... anyone that can help with this??

[dave_nextexit]

I'm trying to figure this out too...is this possible?

[zep]

This post will get you halfway there:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...ht=sort&page=4