Adding "add to cart" button to featured products

I am currently working on a client website (http://www.volumewireless.com/) and I attempted add an "add to cart" button to the featured products on the home page to no avail. The featured products on home page are driven by the featured products module.

You can see that I have modified it slightly already but i cannot seem to get the add to cart code from the product page to work, have any of you attempted this before?

nm I found a work around.

And what was it that worked? The info may help others.

In the "includes/modules/featured_products.php" file around line 55 there is an array called 'text' within it I added:

. '<a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . '<img src="my image link" />' . '</a>'

Thanks for sharing! That will undoubtedly make some people's lives a lot easier. Tweaking the code above for a particular installation is peanuts compared to figuring out where and what to change...

Sheehan:

In the "includes/modules/featured_products.php" file around line 55 there is an array called 'text' within it I added:

. '<a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . '<img src="my image link" />' . '</a>'

Thanks. This tipped help me as well!

Any chance you can be a little more specific on the location that this code should be entered.

I found the array, but my limited PHP knowledge is keeping me from finding the spot to place it.

Thanks for your help!

Got it,

My array was on line 65 "text"

I put it at the very end of the array before the final > ) ;

Also, remember to change the image source in the code.

Thanks!

If anyone knows how to do it.

I would like to put a quantity box and an "add to cart" button there instead of "buy now" to make that completely seemless.

Anyone?

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That is a considerable chunk of code, and could not just be dropped into the line as shown above. Look in /includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php to find the section that builds the price/add. It incrementally puts together bits of code; you can probably transfer the section to a point above the "text" line, accumulating the output in a variable like
$add_code .= ...
and then insert
. $add_code
in the text output.

A caution: the code in tpl_product_info_display.php may depend on some variables being loaded with current database query info, and may not work properly in another file. If that is the case, you will have to get that info from the database, which is a whole other subject.

Does anyone know how to make the Buy it Now button show up in the Featured products sidebox? The trick above works fine, but I want the button visible on the front page as well as on the featured products page. Here is my link: http://xn--godpbunn-d0a.no/

Thanks,

Kristian

Oh, and it doesn´t necessarily have to be the Featured products, like this: http://livedemo00.template-help.com/zencart_33586/index.php It could be the specials, like this one (which also has it on the featured products): http://www.templatemonster.com/demo/33534.html
I just want one or two products in a sidebox with the Buy it Now button and to choose which ones...

Any help appreciated :smile:

Kristian

OK, I found this:

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=1904

and now I am closer to what I want :smile: