I could probably prevent that somehow. But even so, the next version has such a small script it shouldn't be too bad.

I have an ickle suggestion that would make this cool, you could add some simple javascript buttons to the page that auctomatically puts in the correct code for the tab.
EG I want the tab to say "More Info" then I click the "More info" button that would insert the correct code for that tab into the item description. You could cut and paste the comments toolbar contrib code to do this.

Just thinking out loud here :smile:

Reesy:

I have an ickle suggestion that would make this cool, you could add some simple javascript buttons to the page that auctomatically puts in the correct code for the tab.
EG I want the tab to say "More Info" then I click the "More info" button that would insert the correct code for that tab into the item description. You could cut and paste the comments toolbar contrib code to do this.

Just thinking out loud here :smile:

Yea, you mean on the actual product description page in the admin. Yea I thought about that too.. actually just a generic one since people would have their own personal style of what to name the tab so click the button to add

and make other buttons for the hard coded tags like additional images and customers also purchased.

I need to take some time this week to put these ideas in my head to use.

Thx for your input!

I just installed your mod to my new test site. I haven't tested it out as of yet, but I was wondering is it possible to generate a tab that contains customer reviews?

qhome:

Yea, you mean on the actual product description page in the admin. Yea I thought about that too.. actually just a generic one since people would have their own personal style of what to name the tab so click the button to add

<!--%Custom Tab%-->

and make other buttons for the hard coded tags like additional images and customers also purchased.

I need to take some time this week to put these ideas in my head to use.

Thx for your input!

Yea thats exactly what I meant sir.
If you created say generic ones of say more info, extra images, also purchased it would be cool.
Its pretty easy to change the few characters of the buttons for peoples use.

Personally I think this should definately be included in the next zen cart core release as this isnt in any "other" carts AFAIK.

ctcentralinfo:

I just installed your mod to my new test site. I haven't tested it out as of yet, but I was wondering is it possible to generate a tab that contains customer reviews?

Ya i will be adding that in the next version if it behaves nicely.

Since I'm sorta-newbie when it comes to web stuff I don't know what the actual impact on page loading speed is but I went into the jscript and deleted most of the comments.

size of the file dropped by 11KB.

no adverse affect that I have found. less is more, right? :dontgetit

I should note that this contribution is destined for greatness

wasana:

Since I'm sorta-newbie when it comes to web stuff I don't know what the actual impact on page loading speed is but I went into the jscript and deleted most of the comments.

size of the file dropped by 11KB.

no adverse affect that I have found. less is more, right? :dontgetit

I should note that this contribution is destined for greatness

File size doesn't really matter as far as display. The renderer ignores all the comments so its really only sending a few lines of text which wouldn't be damaging unless you were on a 2400 buad connection :)

Hey Q-

Just checked out http://www.unbannable.com/zen/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1

The new tab styles, tab colors, rollover/hover, and the word wrap inside the tab is quite cool.

Wondering with the new version will flexibility be maintained to allow display/positioning the main product image, the "Add to cart button", product attributes, and some random text above the tabs? Hope so ;-)

Although you show the style of the text in the tabs can be hard coded via HTML I assume they can also be stylelized via CSS also? Most of my customers would need larger text size, and setting a global class would be simpler for me than hard coding each tab tag.

Also if increase the text size in the tabs will the tabs resize and eventually wrap to a second tab row as previous version?

Also in your previous post regarding the new version you suggested global overrides are now implmented. Is that working out well?

And discounting my inital hope above, does the new version support displaying both the add to cart button and attributes in one tab (as eric asked about)? I see you stated there are issues with the add to cart button showing up in a tab (always shows up below the tabs).

And have you figured out yet how to place a portion of the product description text text below the tabs?

I do like the idea of allowing combining multiple sectons on one tab with the the naming convention you specified. I assume the combining would only apply to core entires on product info pages, and not mod additions (e.g. X-sell or other added mods). Or could code be manipulated to support combining tabs for mods also?

Also Reesy's suggest is a good one. On my /admin/orders.php edit page I have set up checkboxes to enable auto entering commonly used text strings into the "comments" text edit box. I used code from Grayson's PDF Order Center mod and I don't see why the same idea could not be easily applied for your mod to /admin/product.php new_product page.

Also to respond to your previous inquiry...

Funny, I removed global settings to give more flexibility, now its too flexible But I guess it would be good to have globals with overrides too.

Yes I know you had such capability in the earlier db driven (not Lite) version ;-)
Everyone wants there cake and eat it too ;-)

Do you suppose it would be easier or more confusing to "include" the tabs in a separate php file and then you would need only to add the include tag to your tpl file stating where you would want the tabs to show up? There would still be the need to add logic for "if inside tabs, do not show outside tabs", but I'm toying with the idea to think if that would work better.

No qualms with the "include" solution. Although you have documented things very well that actually may end up easier for some folks to edit the template file.

Any new updates on next TPL version? If you would like some assist testing please let me know.

Woody

When will the new files be available for download?...looks even better now!

Thanks
Pete

I have been loading up my 1.3 cart with contribs for a month now (so far so good!), and I have to say that I think this is one of the very best contribs I've seen. What I really like is that I can provide lots of info without making the page so long, before they get to the ordering part. And, if you view the page source, it's all there, all the info in all the tabs. So I gather that this is what the search engines are seeing??? I think one of the obstacles of getting zencart, oscommerce, and other sites high in the ranking is that you only get to put so much info on the page without detracting from the fact this it is a shopping cart. This contrib solves that problem.
I'm not crazy about how the tabs show up on my site, http://www.photoimprints.com/custom-ceramic-mug-white-11-ounce-p-2.html
but I may develop custom ones later anyhow. I am starting to load up the tabs with all the questions I've been asked about products on my last shopping cart, that were hard to fit in.
Many thanks for this one!

Hi guys..

The reason for the delay is my brain trying to find better ways of doing things but it seems that people don't seem to mind the way it is so long as I comment it nicely. (And use spaces instead of tabs :) wood)

I guess I will clean up my current code and release it for now so you guys can utilize the new tabs. I have 2 sets of tab types.. the XP tabs you see here:

http://www.unbannable.com/zen/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1

and the other type here:

http://www.tvclassico.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=29

Also there is the flexibility shown here to add tabs After the text as seen here:

http://www.unbannable.com/zen/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2

Also notice the Title bar underneath the tabs. I added that for some extra robustness.. I will add a way to disable it as well.

And the tab title wrapping is done via HTML, but the style, color, etc is done via CSS.

I'll release the next beta tomorrow then with the new tabs. Just gotta clean up the xhtml valid stuff

styledata:

I'm not crazy about how the tabs show up on my site, http://www.photoimprints.com/custom-ceramic-mug-white-11-ounce-p-2.html
but I may develop custom ones later anyhow.

See qhome's new tab style on his demo page. URL is in his previous posts.

Can't wait for new version ;-)

Woody

qhome:

(And use spaces instead of tabs :) wood)

LOL, LOL ;-)

Note: I had to add more than one LOL for the forum to accept this post ;-)

Just took a look at the new tab styles. I like the 3-D look. Possible to combine the tab styles to make the "foreground" tab (and mouseover tab) yellow and at the same time make all the tabs 3-D? That is best of both tab styles.

Like the new title bar and being able to toggle on/of is a great idea.

Woody

I think Tabbed Products is pushing my main page width past 100%. This page, w/out tabs looks fine: http://www.photoimprints.com/personalized-license-plate-auto-p-10.html . This page, with tabs, exceeds the browser: http://www.photoimprints.com/custom-ceramic-mug-white-11-ounce-p-2.html . I have looked at the tabbed css file, but I can't tell what to change to bring it in. Does anyone know?
Thanks in advance!

styledata:

I think Tabbed Products is pushing my main page width past 100%. This page, w/out tabs looks fine: http://www.photoimprints.com/personalized-license-plate-auto-p-10.html . This page, with tabs, exceeds the browser: http://www.photoimprints.com/custom-ceramic-mug-white-11-ounce-p-2.html . I have looked at the tabbed css file, but I can't tell what to change to bring it in. Does anyone know?
Thanks in advance!

Hmm.. it might be your artwork tab.. the art goes the full width of the tabs and is forcing them to stay wide in IE..

The non tabbed version has the images farther down so they dont bump the right side column so they can expand a bit and breathe.

this doesn't seem to be a problem in Opera, except opera doesnt like the zc header links (no auto wrap) but thats a problem with all zc1.3 top link users and opera.

But this diagnosis is just a guess Im not 100% certain. Wait till i release the new version and see if it is still a problem with that one.

styledata:

I think Tabbed Products is pushing my main page width past 100%.

This page, with tabs, exceeds the browser: http://www.photoimprints.com/custom-ceramic-mug-white-11-ounce-p-2.html .

Appears fine to me in Firefox. Did not check in IE.

To figure out which CSS classes apply where, install the Web Developer plugin for Firefox.

On an unrelated note your breadcrumb appears to be pushing into the categories sidebox heading.

Sharp eye on the breadcrumb! I have a scrollbar on FF and IE, being more pronounced on IE. I have looked at class and ID details in FF, and tried some different settings in the css for tabbed products, with no change. I would really like to narrow the box that holds all the tabbed comments just a tad. Can you tell me how to accomplish that?
Thank you!

styledata:

Sharp eye on the breadcrumb! I have a scrollbar on FF and IE, being more pronounced on IE. I have looked at class and ID details in FF, and tried some different settings in the css for tabbed products, with no change. I would really like to narrow the box that holds all the tabbed comments just a tad. Can you tell me how to accomplish that?
Thank you!

Well currently the tabs are set to liquid mode, and they will only go as far as the page allows them, but like anything else, if something larger is inside them that doesn't allow breaking, they too will stretch I dont know if it will help to make them fixed but to do it you can add:

width: 400px;

under both:
.ditch-tab-skin-default .ditch-tab-pane-wrap {
&
.ditch-tab-skin-default .ditch-tab-wrap {

But after looking again, I notice its your CrossSell contrib that is stretching out farther than the rest at the bottom of the page. The page stops being liquid when it reaches that contribs table.