Add Text Heading Above Additional Images

[jacdesigner]

My apologies if I am blind, I have been search for a few hours here and there with no luck finding this answer. If you know of a thread that talks about this, feel free to link.

What I would like to do is add a simple text such as "Additional Views" above where additional images are displayed for the products. I realize I could just add this to the template file, BUT I only want it to show if there are actually additional images present for the product (many items have only 1 main image).

Has anyone done this? I am not a php master but I can get around it and I have fairly good ZenCart experience if someone can point me to the right lines of code.

I have also searched the admin for a while and I didn't see any layout option or product type layout option available for this. Might be a nifty add on in some future release. If a hundred people haven't already thought of it....or if again, I am not just blind and missing it :)

BTW - This is in regards to a site running ZenCart 1.3.7.

[kuroi]

I suggest that you take a look at the tpl_modules_additional_images.php template. It's very short and easy to understand and if you insert your text inside the IF statement, it will only show when additional images exist and are being displayed.

Even better there's already a variable $num_images available to you so that you could use singular text when there's only one image or plural text if there are several.

[jacdesigner]

Thank you so much. I suspected that was the file, but I was afraid to break it. I guess I shouldn't be so shy since I am using overrides in my custom template and I could always revert back in a disaster. So anyway, here is what I did:

Just under the div tag with the productAdditionalImages class, I included a break tag and my text "Additional views of this product:" (without quotes).

I made this edit only to my custom copy in my custom template directory.
It is only displaying for products that actually do have additional images.
Piece of cake!

[Nimbuz]

tpl_modules_additional_images.php - Around line 18

<h4>Additional Views</h4>
<div id="productAdditionalImages">
<?php require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_columnar_display.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common'). '/tpl_columnar_display.php'); ?>
</div>

[swamyg1]

Is there any way we might be able to assign different text to the heading based on different categories? For example, one category would say "Available Textures" and another would say "Available Colors." How would one go about this?

[gjh42]

You can check the value of $_GET['cPath'] against a list of category paths and output the corresponding text for whatever matches. You can get as fancy as you like with this.

[kuroi]

Is there any way we might be able to assign different text to the heading based on different categories? For example, one category would say "Available Textures" and another would say "Available Colors." How would one go about this?

You can check the value of $_GET['cPath'] against a list of category paths and output the corresponding text for whatever matches. You can get as fancy as you like with this.

Or you could use attribute images instead of additional images to display your textures and colors - what you're describing is exactly what they're there for.