Product Type Book (by moku)

[johnk]

Have a look at this page on my site. I use Zen Cart as a catalogue only. Look at the top right of my site. I've changes Authors to read Contributors. As you can see "Canon" is listed as a contributor.

Go to (Tools/Layout Boxes Controller) and set the following side boxes to be displayed:

sideboxes/book_authors displays an Author's dropdown (first item on the top right of my page)

sideboxes_authors_info (second item)

The information will appear wherever you select in the left or right columns.

Hope that helps.

P.S. This is a fantastic contribution. When you select an Author from the list, all the products (books) by that Author are displayed automatically.

If you click a book at random, the Author's details will be displayed for that book. As some shoppers may not notice this, you could add a line like: "See Author's Biography in side bar (top right)".