Best Seller's Scrolling Images - support thread

This is the official support thread for the "Best Seller's Scrolling Images" plugin.

This plugin enables the following upgrades to the best seller's sidebox:

• Added the image
• Removed the numbering
• Display of the product name is beside the image (and not under image)
• Image display uses zen-cart image function (if you use Image Handler, it will be used here as well)
• Product price displayed using a zen-cart function (will also show currency changes and specials pricing)

In a nutshell - it scrolls the best sellers and adds needed info (price) to the sidebox.

This plugin was designed to be simple and without any special JS or AJAX technology, it uses a simple marquee tag.

Links:
Author's page: http://zen-cart.co.il/bestsellers-scrolling-images/
Plugin on ZenCart: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=1836

Example can be found here:
http://noajewelry.com/

Enjoy,
Chaiavi

I tried your nice module but no image is shown in the sidebox. Only the default : no_picture.gif !

What am i missing ? :blink:

The bestseller sidebox shows your existing products.

Do the products it shows there have pictures?

Yes, they do have images.

But something strange is happening.

I tried to debug the result of : tpl_best_sellers.php , by adding some echo commands :

echo 'imgLink : ' . $imgLink .'<br/>';	
echo "\n" ;
echo zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($bestsellers_list[$i]['id']), 'products_id=' . $bestsellers_list[$i]['id']) .'<br/>';	
echo "\n" ;
echo zen_get_products_display_price($bestsellers_list[$i]['id']) .'<br/>'.'<br/>';	

and everything is OK, **except **the image file ! It only returns the default image folder ( i.e images/ )

You can seet the Results below :

imgLink : images/
http://example.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=191
€18,00

imgLink : images/
http://example.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=189
€13,60

imgLink : images/
http://example.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=181
€20,00

Any ideas ?

Adding also this line :

 echo  'bestsellers_list['.$i.'][image] : ' .  $bestsellers_list[$i]['image'] ;

returns empty results ( ! ) :

bestsellers_list[1][image] :
bestsellers_list[2][image] :
bestsellers_list[3][image] :

Hi Takisd,

Please look at the other file you have in the bestseller package, it's in the modules directory.

Look at line #68 - that is the place where the image name is being populated.

Please debug that place and keep us posted.

BTW - good debugging work till now

Chaivai , any ideas how to do it ? I'm new to zen cart & php . Thank you

This is what i found !

If i paste the code of best_sellers.php into one page i.e Page4, while viewing the page everything works PERFECT ( Inside the page - where a new box is displayed - and in the right side where the basic sidebox is ! ).

In all other pages the images are not displayed !

What am i missing ?

takisd:

Chaivai , any ideas how to do it ? I'm new to zen cart & php . Thank you

I am sorry for the misspell of your name !

Thanks for this model.

Is it possible to remove the price from the product? to scroll just the product?

Hi Melir...

Find the exact following string:
. zen_get_products_display_price($bestsellers_list[$i]['id'])

and remove it.

It should work

(It will be in the file: tpl_best_sellers.php)

Please try it and report back

You can remove even more.

You can remove the following string:

instead of the previous string I sent you

Thanks chaiavi for your quick reply. I've tried it and works wonderful.

My bestsellers are set to max 5, is this why after is finishes scrolling it becomes blank for a few seconds till it starts again scrolling?

Also is it possible to add a separator between the bestseller box products? i found a tread with the solution but only showing to me after first product.

link: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111763

Add the following tag:

before the closing "}"

Where is it located?

Search for:
}
$content .= '</table></div>' . "\n";

right before these lines add the tag I mentioned: <hr>

Please report back

Thanks

Sorry but the <HR> didn't work and the whole sidebox disappeared

i added like this:

zen_trunc_string($bestsellers_list[$i]['name'], BEST_SELLERS_TRUNCATE, BEST_SELLERS_TRUNCATE_MORE) . '</a><BR></td></tr>' . "\n";
<hr>
}
$content .= '</table></div>' . "\n";

tRY ADDING IT RIGHT AFTER THE:

Tried new solution but can't manage to make it work, but this mod is great anyway.

I also have another bestseller mod called "best sellers page" that's just a page to my bestsellers, i want to add this to your bestsellers scrolling sidebox with an 'more" link into the box heading, (because the scrolling shows only 5 products, i need customers to be able to search all bestsellers) how can this be done?

תודה רבה:clap:

Original code:
for ($i = 1; $i <= $total; $i++) {
$imgLink = DIR_WS_IMAGES . $bestsellers_list[$i]['image'];
if ($i == 2) {$content .= '';}
$content .= '<tr><td valign=top><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($bestsellers_list[$i]['id']), 'products_id=' . $bestsellers_list[$i]['id']) . '">' . zen_image($imgLink, zen_trunc_string($bestsellers_list[$i]['name']), SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH/2, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT/2) . '</a></td><td valign=top><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($bestsellers_list[$i]['id']), 'products_id=' . $bestsellers_list[$i]['id']) . '">' . zen_trunc_string($bestsellers_list[$i]['name'], BEST_SELLERS_TRUNCATE, BEST_SELLERS_TRUNCATE_MORE) . '</a><BR><div align=left>' . zen_get_products_display_price($bestsellers_list[$i]['id']) . '</div></td></tr>' . "\n";
}
$content .= '</table></div>' . "\n";

Altered code:
for ($i = 1; $i <= $total; $i++) {
$imgLink = DIR_WS_IMAGES . $bestsellers_list[$i]['image'];
if ($i == 2) {$content .= '';}
$content .= '<tr><td valign=top><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($bestsellers_list[$i]['id']), 'products_id=' . $bestsellers_list[$i]['id']) . '">' . zen_image($imgLink, zen_trunc_string($bestsellers_list[$i]['name']), SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH/2, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT/2) . '</a></td><td valign=top><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($bestsellers_list[$i]['id']), 'products_id=' . $bestsellers_list[$i]['id']) . '">' . zen_trunc_string($bestsellers_list[$i]['name'], BEST_SELLERS_TRUNCATE, BEST_SELLERS_TRUNCATE_MORE) . '</a><BR><div align=left>' . zen_get_products_display_price($bestsellers_list[$i]['id']) . '</div><hr></td></tr>' . "\n";
}
$content .= '</table></div>' . "<a href=http://example.com>More Bestsellers...</a>\n";

I have bolded out the changed code.

לילה טוב :smile:

Thanks so much chaiav it works like a charm.

Love you...

My pleasure.

Hope to see you in my Israeli support site:
Israel Zen Cart support site

Did the separating line also work?

What is the link to your site?

Avi Hayun