Default Specials Page

[jettrue]

Still no text.....weird....

That's working on my test sites... you made the other changes (step 2 and 3) from the first page of this thread right?

[nrg77]

That's working on my test sites... you made the other changes (step 2 and 3) from the first page of this thread right?

Yes, I made all the changes.

[jettrue]

Yes, I made all the changes.

Then I'm not sure what else to advise, except to check and double check its all been uploaded, the changes are made in the right template folder, etc.

[nrg77]

Then I'm not sure what else to advise, except to check and double check its all been uploaded, the changes are made in the right template folder, etc.

The one thing I did noticed though is that you have equal amount of opening and closing braces in your code snippet. When I go to paste your exact code into the file, it won't work as it "claims" to have one too many so I had to delete one from yours.

That suggests to me that something is wrong or it already is missing one brace....However, why didn't it throw a syntax error....

If that was the case, it effects many others, not just me....

[nrg77]

To add to what I just said, I refer back to the post where that person also experienced what I experienced as well. So I started counting the braces and yours is correct 4 open 4 close. So he too deleted one from yours thinking you put one too many but that is not the case...

[jettrue]

To add to what I just said, I refer back to the post where that person also experienced what I experienced as well. So I started counting the braces and yours is correct 4 open 4 close. So he too deleted one from yours thinking you put one too many but that is not the case...

Well, that was old code... old code had one too many, the new code does not have one too many.

[mvstudio]

I've tried using the changes provided here but they just didn't work at all. So I changed some things here and there to make it work. The changes below make the specials page display with or without specials in it, a must for those of us who like to add images of coupons and promo codes to our specials page.

STEP 1. open includes/modules/pages/specials/main_template_vars.php

Find:

  $num_products_count = $specials->RecordCount();
  if ($num_products_count) {
    if ($num_products_count < SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS || SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS==0 ) {
      $col_width = floor(100/$num_products_count);
    } else {
      $col_width = floor(100/SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS);
    } 

Replace with:

//show page even if no specials
$num_products_count = $specials->RecordCount();
if ($num_products_count > SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS || SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS==0 and $num_products_count!=0) {
$col_width = floor(100/$num_products_count);
$col_width = floor(100/SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS);
} else {
if ($num_products_count == 0) {
$col_width = floor(100/SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_COLUMNS_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS);
} 

STEP 2. open up includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_specials_default.php

Find:

    <h1 id="specialsListingHeading"><?php echo BOX_HEADING_SPECIALS; ?></h1>

Replace with:

    <h1 id="specialsListingHeading"><?php echo BOX_HEADING_SPECIALS; ?></h1>
    <?php echo TEXT_SPECIALS_PAGE; }?>

STEP 3. You need to add a define for the above code. Open up includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/english.php

Add this:

define('TEXT_SPECIALS_PAGE', 'Add any images or text you want to display here.'); 

Instead of step 3 above I've hardcoded my tpl_specials_default.php file. It's up to you.

You can see one of my specials page here http://www.byvalenti.com/index.php?main_page=specials

Hope someone can find this helpful.