Column Layout Grid for Product Listing

[sarahjewellery]

Hi,

Your problem is being caused because the mod has not been installed correctly. One of the files is not in the right place, most like the tpl_modules_product_listing.php file. For your site it should be in the includes/templates/freetemplate3/templates directory.

Regards,
Christian.

THANK YOU
This has fixed the problem just like that! I don't know how I missed that!
Thanks!

[boudewijn]

Hi,

I installed this mod/add-on on my ZC 1.3.8. Somewhere earlier in this thread, someone mentioned a problem with the horizontal alignment of the various fields like title, description, buy now button etc. I was also experiencing this.
Meanwhile I did some recoding and was able to fix it, but I rather have a fix within the 'standard'. Anyone knows if it's available?

Regards,
Boudewijn

[kernheimer]

Hi, having the same template as sarah, i'm still also in the dark
may i ask what did the trick for you?
my grid just does not want to 'grid'

[boudewijn]

Hi,

I modified includes/modules/<my template>/product_listing.php in the following way:

The original version saves up the fields of one product, then adds it to the array $list_box_contents to be printed later. That way one gets alignment on product level, but not alignment on field level.

What I did is (say you chose 3 products per row) is save up the separate fields of three products, then print them field by field, with a separator div, full width, horizontally between the fields. This separator div takes care of horizontal alignment, the fixed width of the field div's of vertical alignment.

As far as I tested this leaves the row-display intact, if that option is selected.

It may still need some adjustment, because the price and the 'buy now' button are printed in the same field, and a special offer price pushes the button down.

You can check out the website below for an example.

I hope this was kind of clear....

Boudewijn

[sarahjewellery]

Hi, having the same template as sarah, i'm still also in the dark
may i ask what did the trick for you?
my grid just does not want to 'grid'

Kernheimer

My problem was that I did not copy over tpl_modules_product_listing.php and that was causing the grid to not line up properly.

[boudewijn]

Hi Sarah,

It seems all is in place here. May I have a look at your site to see what happens there? A URL should do....

Boudewijn

[uncentaur]

hello boudewijn

i see you have more then columns in your site: http://www.chinesedingen.nl/, how is it possible?


i have installed this module:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...products_id=77
...but is no use.

i have noticed a script difference:

Where it says:
Upload the new product_listing.php to ZEN_CART_HOME_DIR/includes/modules/YOURTEMPLATE/product_listing.php

i do not have: YOURTEMPLATE

my template is to: ZEN_CART_HOME_DIR/includes/templates/YOURTEMPLATE


can anybody help?

thanks.

[boudewijn]

Hi,

This is what the instructions say:

(1) The module overrides just one file in the system - the file modified is ZEN_CART_HOME_DIR/includes/modules/YOUR_TEMPLATE/product_listing.php

(2) The template overrides just one file in the system - the file modified is ZEN_CART_HOME_DIR/includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_modules_product_listing.php

@Sarah: this is where both files got placed, and do get executed.

@uncentaur:
For me, the folder <YOUR_TEMPLATE> did exist, both under includes/modules AND under includes/templates.
For your situation I guess you must create includes/modules/<YOUR_TEMPLATE> manually, as it was not created when you copied the template files. You can probably get the template name from some other place in the tree.

I hope this helped.

Boudewijn

[uncentaur]

i have created the folder and it works now

thank you for help

[smcelligott]

I'm having a problem with my products not lining up properly, and leaving random empty spaces between products. Also in the New Products bar (now disabled), I was too often getting strange links (discontinued or out of stock products with the wrong photos), multiple products with the same photo (not a naming problem). Decided to bury my head in the sand on that last issue, by disabling new products, but am feeling like this could be related to the general spacing issue. I am attaching a screen capture, as too often when looking at old posts, I only get the chance to see the screen after it is fixed. Before pix are quite helpful to verify that the problem being addressed looks like the one I am experiencing.

Anyway, I am u]sing v ZC1.3.8a, relatively new install, have added the modification to have products listed in columns rather than rows. My site is:

www.talismanjewellery.com.au/TJOnline/

Here is screen capture [URL="ftp://talisman@www.talismanjewellery.com.au/public_html/SCREEN_CAPTURE.tiff"]ftp://talisman@www.talismanjewellery.com.au/public_html/SCREEN_CAPTURE.tiff[/URL

I have searched and searched, and can't seem to find this most likely simple solution. I know I've made a lot of changes to my template in order to find this problem, and I'm thinking that something I did appeared to do nothing for my original problem but is causing me grief today. So this very well could be a css problem.

The odd bit is that it sometimes seems browser specific (more common on Mac Snow Leopard Safari, but still see it on PC Chrome and Firefox less frequently. Refresh sometimes makes problem go away

Not sure if I've answered everything in this post, but let me know if I am just overlooking something silly. Cheers, Sean