Record Artist Select sidebox?

Anyone know if there's a simple way of adding a "Recording Arist Select" sidebox?

or, in general..

A way of adding new "select" sideboxes?

Thanks,
SWW

Yes, i would also like to know this

thank you

Greetings,

Did you resolve your issue?

I am trying to add an Artist sidebox also..

I have copied from record_companies and created/modified:
\modules\sideboxes\artists.php
\index_filters\artist_filter.php
\templates\template_default\sideboxes\tpl_artists_select.php
\language\chrome(my custom template)\english.php

The box shows on my test website www.reggaemp3.us but there are no Artists listed in the box although if you select a line showing '..' it will go to the artists products.

Any advice anyone can give will be greatly appreciated.

'Live' site is www.reggae-mp3.com.. Thanx..... Kamel

you need to add row to a get_terms_to_filter table. Try this one:
insert into get_terms_to_filter values ('artists_id', 'TABLE_RECORD_ARTISTS', 'artists_name')

Greetings, I posted this on June 30th.. I hope to get some replies, if I get this working I will let you all know...:

I am using Zen 1.3.7 and have scoured the posts for info on how to add an Artist sidebox. I have not been able to find a solution that will perform the same as the record company select function.

I am not a programmer but I am a pc consultant and can do enough to be dangerous to myself so I tend to be cautious. So I have a dup. site for testing.

So far I have copied from record_companies and created/modified:

includes\modules\sideboxes\artists.php
includes\index_filters\artist_filter.php
includes\templates\template_default\sideboxes\tpl_artists_select.php
includes\language\chrome(my custom template)\english.php

Admin:
\record_artists.php
\includes\language\english\record_artists.php

I have added a row in myPHP 'get_terms_to filter:
artists_id, table_record_artists, artists_name

My result is a sidebox labelled 'Artist' with a dropdown box. However in the dropdown box I only get a list of '..' which when I select one of them (..) I get a list of an artists products. And when I do a 'view source' in a browser I only see a list of '..' by the side of a list of artist_ids. So the only apparent item I seem to be missing is the population of the list with the 'artist_name'.

I feel that an Artist box would be a major help for my customers in their search for music.
I don't know if this is tacky, but I am desparate, I will make a donation of $250 if you guys can help me finish this project that others seem to want also.

Jah Bless

Kamel :cool:

I fixed the '..' in the dropdown box with the help of a friend... We removed the 0, Max_Display_Record_Artist_Name_Len and replaced it with a value '20' in record_artists.php and now all the artist names show in the dropdown box...

Check it out at https://www.reggae-mp3.com I will post this as a contribution once I figure out how to do it and if anyone is interested.

Jah Bless

Kamel:clap:

Hi. I did not add an artist sidebox to my 1.3.9f cart as discussed in the 2008 posts above. However, a Record Artist box appears in Admin>Configuration>Extras along with the Music Genres and Record Companies sideboxes in the 1.3.9f cart.

However, although the Music Genres and Record Companies sideboxes are turned on with the Layout Boxes Controller, I see no control for the Record Artist sidebox.

Is there an Admin control to turn on the Record Artist sidebox, and if so, where is it found?

Or is it necessary to do the insert statement in PHPMyAdmin described in the 2008 Post #4 above to get the sidebox to show up in Admin>Configuration? If the latter, I am not sure of the steps to insert this statement.

Thanks for any comments.