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20 Nov 2006, 6:00 AM
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Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

I'd like to show multiple features stacked in a sidebox.....I can't seem to find this anywhere. Does anyone have an idea on how to do this? Basically show 3 or 4 features at once in the right column.

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6 Dec 2006, 2:10 PM
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Re: Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

Does anyone have some direction for me with this?

25 Jan 2007, 2:55 PM
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Re: Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

Still looking for a answer here....I'm sure someone is doing this. Any takers?

28 Jan 2007, 4:29 PM
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Re: Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

Currently the Featured sidebox does a selection of product and then narrows it down to just 1 for display ...

That information is gathered in the:
/includes/modules/sideboxes/featured.php

then it is picked up by the template in:
/includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_featured.php

You would need to alter the first file to get more than 1 featured product, then alter the second file to loop through the gathered products to display the information all in one sidebox ...

2 Feb 2007, 2:39 PM
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Re: Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

Thanks Ajeh,

I've taken your direction and have attempted to play with the code however I must admit that I'm not a php guru. Any more direction would be greatly appreciated. Say I wanted to have 2 featured products show...one on top of the other...what changes would I have to make? I assume that the random call would have to be altered to select 2 products or would we have to add a second random call? And the display would have to show the second feature.....so could we just duplicate the code or is there a simpler method?

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3 Feb 2007, 5:32 PM
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Re: Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

Well ... we just built this in to the next release for the Random sideboxes to allow for 1 or more Products to show ...

It will be in the next release for you ... :cool:

5 Feb 2007, 1:48 PM
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Re: Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

Am I being foolish in asking when the next release may be? And if this is already coded, is it possible to sure a hack version of this with us?

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5 Feb 2007, 1:50 PM
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Re: Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

The next release will be sooner rather than later ... but we cannot give you a precise date on that until we are done ...

As to releasing the code early, no ... not usually in the game plan, sorry ...

19 May 2007, 6:15 PM
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Re: Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

Hi, you dont mention which release this will be featured in, as this is an old post, has this feature been added? if no, which release is it scheduled to be added?

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19 May 2007, 6:17 PM
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Re: Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

This will be in the upcoming v1.3.8 release ... :smile:

19 May 2007, 6:45 PM
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Re: Vertical Stacked Features or Specials Sidebox

whoa, that was a fast reply.. thanks

I understand you cant give out dates for releases, but are we talking days, weeks or months? its just that my project needs mutliple specials and I would like to give some feedback to the store owner...

No worries if this is an unanswerable question

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