duplicate make new box on home page under featured products box

Hi, we currently have one box active 'featured products' in the centre column on the main page, which we've re-named 'Great Gift ideas' Basically we want another box to appear underneath called 'Special Offers' but we don't want to to use the specials in the admin as it causes too many problems with products priced by attributes and starts discounting off the attributes too which we dont want. The client is saying they simply want a duplicate box of 'Great Gift Ideas' where we can put products in. How can I duplicate this box and re-name it to something like 'Special offer products' without using the 'specials' in the admin.

Thanks!

anybody know how to do this please? Really need to get this done.

Many thanks

I think you're talking about a pretty major programming job. It seems like you'd need to 'clone' the whole Featured Products function, in the files, admin and database.

You might be able to fiddle with this:

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=1541

I haven't used it, and I don't know if it's compatible with 1.3.9.

I think whats best is if I download the home page centre box mod, then I can have boxes on the home page with whatever I like in.

That would work, but if you only need this to show on the main page, you could just code it into define_main_page.

That's true, I will indeed play around with the main page and code in a box...my only problem will be how can I make this box appear underneath features products box which we've called 'great gift ideas' ?

Sushigal:

Hi, we currently have one box active 'featured products' in the centre column on the main page, which we've re-named 'Great Gift ideas' Basically we want another box to appear underneath called 'Special Offers' but we don't want to to use the specials in the admin as it causes too many problems with products priced by attributes and starts discounting off the attributes too which we dont want. How to find and remove duplicate files fast and easy way. The client is saying they simply want a duplicate box of 'Great Gift Ideas' where we can put products in. How can I duplicate this box and re-name it to something like 'Special offer products' without using the 'specials' in the admin.

Thanks!

Do Anybody know how to do this please? Really need to get this done.

Many thanks

I just used dreamweaver to make a box that looked like the boxes on my homepage then copied and pasted the code for it into the define pages main page.