6 replies to this topic

[Ryvral]

Hello,

I'm trying to find out how to change the width of the table for the column_left.php..

I edited default.php from:

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<!-- left_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_left.php'); ?>
<!-- left_navigation_eof //-->
</table></td>

To This:

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="164" valign="top"><table border="0" width="164" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<!-- left_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_left.php'); ?>
<!-- left_navigation_eof //-->
</table></td>

Ok that fixed the default.php.. But if I browse around anywhere else in my store the table goes back to default.. I'm guessing there is a config.php or something that I can change to make system wide changes for oscommerce?

Thanks for any help offered
Ken

[BirdBrain]

have you downloaded and read the manual from http://www.oscdox.com? Give it a try.

[Ryvral]

Yes I have read the docs. Although I didn't find anything about resizing the tables.. I always study before I post on here..

Although I may have missed it..

Ken

[CC]

Is there a reason why you want to make left column bigger than right?

If not, then change the width of both in application_top

If there is, then go to includes/boxes/ and alter each boxes width to whatever you want.

CC.

[Ryvral]

Kinda hard to find what I was looking for in the docs but I found it..

The reason I want to change the left nav table to make it wider is because some of the catagories I have are too long to fit on 1 line.. Thus is scrolls down to the next making it look bad..

ANSWER:

application_top.php

// customization for the design layout
define('TAX_DECIMAL_PLACES', 0); // Pad the tax value this amount of decimal places
define('DISPLAY_PRICE_WITH_TAX', true); // Display prices with tax (true) or without tax (false)
define('BOX_WIDTH', 164); // how wide the boxes should be in pixels (default: 125)

Simple huh?

And the bad thing is , is that I look in that php like 10 times... hahaha.. DOH.. I need to start sleeping again..

Ken

[CC]

Argh well, these things happen.

:wink:

CC.

[rdavido]

I wanted to resize my tables too but thought I might want to do it again before things were over so made some broad changes in the scripts but made it easier to do again by defining a few new variables in application_top.php

TABLE_WIDTH_MASTER
TABLE_WIDTH_LEFT_COL
TABLE_WIDTH_RIGHT_COL
TABLE_WIDTH_BODY

and populated the definitions with all my appropriate widths for my layout.

I then edited all of the php files and replace the hard-coded widths (ie, 100%) with the above definitions in their corresponding locations using this template:

<?php echo TABLE_WIDTH_MASTER; ?>

This has worked excellent for me and I'm glad I did it. I did wind up changing my column widths again since I opted to drop the right column altogether. Resizing the left column and body was a snap since all I had to do was change the widths in application_top.php.

They/We should consider not hard-coding table widths for the 3-column layout and make them part of HTML definitions in the application_top.php or separate file. This would help make the layout much more of a skin or theme rather than fixed like it is. Maybe I'll suggest that after the 2.2 release, they have enough on their plate as it is.