Seasonal Centerbox [support thread]

The Seasonal Centerbox is acenterbox - just like the New Products, Featured Products and Monthly Specials Centerboxes - which allows you to show off randomly selected items from a specific category.

https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2295

The includes/templates/custom/templates/tpl_modules_seasonal.php goes in includes/templates/YOURTEMPLATE/templates/tpl_modules_seasonal.php.

Apparently, the plugin moderator missed the standardization at https://docs.zen-cart.com/user/first_steps/basic_terms/#yourtemplate.

:rotflmao:

Seriously, keep up the great work.

I have installed and made modifications per the readme file. Should this display in admin/configuration/index listing ?
I cannot locate where to utilize this like I would the featured products.

zc 1.5.7.b

It's not yet admin-controllable (will be in the next release). Right now, see step 6 in the README.txt for customization instructions.

Thank You!

Seasonal Centerbox has been updated to provide built-in admin controls so file edits are no longer required.

Great! Just wonder if it is random order? Products in the featured Products are random order. If this plugin allows me to give the products some sort order, I can use it to replace featured products :smile:

Yes, it is in random order.

swguy:

Yes, it is in random order.

Many thanks for your reply. Is it possible to assign a sort order to the products?

You'd have to change the code - nothing is built in to do this. They're in random order now.

I installed your latest version on 1.5.7c. I followed instructions that says :
Right above
while (!$show_display_category->EOF) {

add this block of code:

Here is my file:
$show_display_category = $db->Execute(SQL_SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_MAIN);

while (!$show_display_category->EOF) {

causes my Main page center to be empty. No Main page or features nor specials... Just blank.

Did I miss something????? Thanks

You are already in PHP in the block where you pasted it. So no need for the start and end php - instead use

$show_display_category = $db->Execute(SQL_SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_MAIN);
require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_seasonal.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_seasonal.php');
while (!$show_display_category->EOF) {
...

Silly Me..... so much for programming late at night.........

That helped but now Featured Products tab does not work correctly.

tedjmaines:

Silly Me..... so much for programming late at night.........

That helped but now Featured Products tab does not work correctly.

Still having issues with Seasonal Centerbox stopping Feature from displaying. See previous post.

swguy:

Seasonal Centerbox has been updated to provide built-in admin controls so file edits are no longer required.

It seems I can't see any details in Admin.

You will need to work with a developer to fix this. The entries in the configuration table need to have the same group id as the configuration_group table entry.

The sql did add to admin_pages and configuration_group but not to configuration table, so I did it thru phpMyAdmin. I had been looking into the php's but not the DB. Thank for pointing me in the right way.

Works fine now. :clap: Nice plugin!

I installed your mod and it works great. Easy installation and setup via admin.

I just have one question:

Is it possible to add a "buy now " or "more info" button below each product?

site is atwww.royal-fleur.com for reference.

Thank you for your time

The centerboxes don't normally have buy buttons on them but certainly you could add the code to do that for items without attributes. But there's nothing built in - you'd have to write the logic yourself.

swguy:

The centerboxes don't normally have buy buttons on them but certainly you could add the code to do that for items without attributes. But there's nothing built in - you'd have to write the logic yourself.

Thank you for the prompt reply. Unfortunately, I am not coder so that s a bit out of my reach.

What i did for the other boxes is to replace the "more info" by a "buy now" button and i don't know how replicate this to your seasonal centerbox.

I came across this plug in at https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=998 but it has not been updated for awhile. I will just keep digging around to seeif someone did the modifications.

Thanks again for your time.