Additional 'Featured' Products side bar box

Hi

I would like to have a 2nd custom 'Featured' box in my sidebar. I already use the standard featured box, but I need to promote a slightly different assortment of products.

So I need the facility to pick assorted products and have them display randomly in the sidebar.

Is this possible?

You will have to clone the featured sidebox code. I think it's a little complicated so you will probably need some help.

There are only two files needed for a sidebox: /includes/modules/sideboxes/whatever.php and /includes/templates/your_template/sideboxes/tpl_whatever.php.
So the only tricky part might be modifying the SQL code in the clone to do the custom select, and possibly creating some new constants in a language define file like /includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/your_template/whatever_defines.php.

If you want separate admin settings for number of alternate featured products or something, that would require some more code and database tweaking.