A Product Category in the Information box

Hi,
I've searched the site already and didn't come up with anything...

I am working on a site for a friend and he wants to set up a Special Offers section. This is no problem - new category and add the products - easy! But he want it to show up in the Information sidebox instead of the default box. Is this possible? And more importantly is it a huge job?

Your help, as always, is greatly appreciated.

Have you looked at the sideboxes that are already available?? In the admin > tools > layout boxes controller...

There are, as I recall, featured Item, whats New, best sellers, specials, and of course ez-pages that can be customized fairly extensively.

But from your description the "SPECIALS" sidebox sounds like just what you need and even if you need to adjust it some 90% of the work is done.

Let's say you want to add this to the more_information.php sidebox ...

  $more_information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'cPath=' . '3_10') . '">' . 'Special stuff' . '</a>';

Now you can manually set this stuff or do a look up etc. for the Category name etc.

Ajeh:

Let's say you want to add this to the more_information.php sidebox ...

$more_information[] = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'cPath=' . '3_10') . '">' . 'Special stuff' . '</a>';

> 
> Now you can manually set this stuff or do a look up etc. for the Category name etc.


As simple as that! I really am shocked! I've been making this way too hard for myself as usual. Many thanks Ajeh, I'll go implement this now :)

You are most welcome ... glad that this helped you out ... :smile: