lindsayanng

hey.. I have a little issue.. The new admin menu did not show up. I went to the mysite.com/catalog/admin/product_listing_setup.php and it brought me to my admin, but i do not think that it actually ran the database query. I am PRETTY SURE i ran the install exactly how it should be. The products now show as thumbnails with the name and price (no short description yet, i have to add that contribution) but no buy now - i am assuming that is because that is enabled through the control panel.

do you have the cache enabled on your site? I'm sorry i cant help more. I still havent had the time to install this yet..

I am SOOO excited to get this set up. Thanks for making it, its really perfect!! Let you know how it all works out for me!

yes.. I know. I was just saying that as a design standpoint to start making it look RIGHT. I just am LOVING the fact that, prior to this i had no php experience, i am able to do soo much with this shopping cart.. now, i know it is not nearly as beautiful as some of the sites around here.. Not even CLOSE, but i am doing more by myself (without a programmer i mean) than i ever thought possible. I;m SOOOO glad i did not get a template! I have a feeling with some more practice, i can make an AWESOME site. THANKS GUYS!

can you post the code in the page that you altered to get this contribution?

hmm. i am a tad wary of just copying and pasting all that code, but i will definitely back up first.. I can do that till i get home though because this stupid work computer will take 10 hours to download my backup copy. I hate PCs - sorry about the little rant. I really appreciate you helping out.. Do you have a link to your site? I went to your profile but didnt see it there

p.s. That cart head contribution seems to be EXACTLY what i am looking for. Now, (i know this is asking a lot) but is there a way to add a quick log-in form and put it all inside one table, or box??

Not really.. i just want to change the way that all of my products are listed.. So say you want to buy a dog bone. You would go to dogs--> Treats and then the list of all my dog treats would show up. Right now, the default is to show them in rows. I would like them to show in rows and columns. Now just the new products, but ALL of my products.. I just dont like the list that the default comes with.. Does that make sense?

I am looking for a contribution that will organize my product listing like my categories box on the main page is organized. I would like to have a thumbnail image of the products, a short description and the price in a grid style box.. Un-like the rows of products where there is too much info and it takes up too much space you have to scroll down. something like this but doesnt need to have the check check boxes but instead a buy now option Product Listing i'm also looking for something that will put the shopping cart and login box in the upper right like on that page. THANKS IN ADVANCE

thanks! I changed the size of the subcategories images and it worked perfectly.. luckily i made the images the actual size that i wanted them to be so nothing else changed. Thanks for the tips.. now i need to change the background color of the boxes

ok which one?? I got two different answers.. I THOUGHT it was the subcategories one too, but now i am not soo sure. I guess i can mess with them and see what happens..THANKS

Hey everyone. I installed the Main Categories on Front Page for my website. You can see it here: FURRY FAMILY SUPPLIES But i need to figure out how to change the size parameters for the images. they are WAY too small, and square - and i need them to be rectangular.. If you actually click on the birds category, you will see the look i am going for. I want those on my main page! I really hope someone can give me a hand. I dont think i can change it in the admin section under images because it might mess with my subcategories images. ANY help is much appreciated.

ok then.. I will search through the contributions to find one that i can work into the other categories on my website.

ny suggestions on how to apply this to other categories boxes? If you take a look at my site, you can see on the left column, my articles manager categories. Can I just make a change in the articles.php file or do I have to add the code to the top of every site like with the first one?

actually, i figured it all out. For some reason, if i typed mysite.com/catalog/AdminMenuOptions_installer.php it would not work, but when i copied the file path from my server to the url bar, it worked fine and now everything seems to be working wonderfully! Now i want to figure out how to apply it to my articles box as well!

i also do not have the FWR Menu in my admin section.. I kinda did not expect to have it because it never told me to do anything in the admin section.. Whats going on here?

I have a quick question.. I am going through the steps, and it says to go to mysite.com/adminmenuoptions_installer.php but i can not get to that file. It is actually in the mysite.com/catalog/adminmenuoptions_installer so i just put that into my browser instead.. should i put that into the main directory?? did i miss something?

i didn't mean you specifically. I just like the fact that there is a great forum here to help if there really is an issue... I know it's outside the relms of "support" and i am HOPING that i could figure it out on my own, otherwise i will have to find a different contribution (if any) that has the instructions to insert images into a fly out already in it. Its just good to know that i can TRY it. I will get to work as soon as i get home.. YAY!

i havent seen anything for Yahoo Messanger, but there are some contributions that offer live help if that is what you are looking to do.

i'm sorry.. I didnt really get what you are saying. I am new to this stuff, but i am SURE if i download the contribution and take a look at it i might be able to figure it out.. otherwise i have you wonderful people to help me.. right??? right???? :) I love this forum

i would like to know the answer to this as well.

so there is no way to use an image as a background for this then, just solid colors like you would do in CSS. coopco, i checked out your site, its very nice, but i dont think i can customize it that way i wanted.. i really would like big rectangular buttons with some kind of gandient background and text over it..

hey there. I was refered to this contribution - actually HIGHLY suggested because i was looking for help with a dynamic menu. I was wondering though, is there a way to use images instead of text for the categories??? If not, does anyone have a link to this menu in use for me to see? I wanna see what it looks like and see how much customization i can get out of it. My MAIN goal is to be able to either make nice big (not too big) buttons that people click and the same sized ones fly out when they hover. I would be happy doing this with an image, or some kind of gradient background with text over it.. but i prefer images. I LOVE to see some site examples !!

you are NOT NOT NOT going to believe this.. I FREAKING FIXED IT!!!! I sat at the cpu for about 2 hours reading the code word by word and symbol by symbol. I was going crazy, and then i got to this odd little part of the code in catalog/articles.php I WAS loosing my mind, but this little paragraph just stood out.. it said: // Rigadin2: query modified for Mysql5 and added ledt join for TABLE_ARTICLES_DESCRIPTION. // $articles_all_query_raw = "select a.articles_id, a.articles_date_added, ad.articles_name, ad.articles_head_desc_tag, au.authors_id, au.authors_name, td.topics_id, td.topics_name from ((" . TABLE_ARTICLES . " a) left join " . TABLE_AUTHORS . " au using(authors_id)) left join " . TABLE_ARTICLES_DESCRIPTION . " ad using(articles_id), " . TABLE_ARTICLES_TO_TOPICS . " a2t left join " . TABLE_TOPICS_DESCRIPTION . " td using(topics_id) where (a.articles_date_available IS NULL or to_days(a.articles_date_available) <= to_days(now())) and a.articles_id = a2t.articles_id and a.articles_status = '1' and ad.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "' and td.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "' order by a.articles_date_added desc, ad.articles_name"; $articles_all_query_raw = "select a.articles_id, a.articles_date_added, ad.articles_name, ad.articles_head_desc_tag, au.authors_id, au.authors_name, td.topics_id, td.topics_name from " . TABLE_ARTICLES . " a, " . TABLE_ARTICLES_TO_TOPICS . " a2t left join " . TABLE_TOPICS_DESCRIPTION . " td on a2t.topics_id = td.topics_id left join " . TABLE_AUTHORS . " au on a.authors_id = au.authors_id, " . TABLE_ARTICLES_DESCRIPTION . " ad where (a.articles_date_available IS NULL or to_days(a.articles_date_available) <= to_days(now())) and a.articles_id = a2t.articles_id and a.articles_status = '1' and a.articles_id = ad.articles_id and ad.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "' and td.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "' order by a.articles_date_added desc, ad.articles_name"; then i realized.. The paragraph of code on the top was the correct code for the more RECENT MYSQL5 and the paragraph below was for the older one. NO WHERE In the instructions did it say to go in a delete the one you will not be using (in my case the second one for the older version of MYSQL) So i deleted that second whole block of code and VIOLA - MY ARTICLES MANAGER WORKS!!! well, almost.. I am still having the issue with the cross sell.. i really an VERY proud of myself because i am just LEARNING this stuff, but i feel like everything is coming along nicely.

i agree.. a re-direct kinda makes your site seem unprofessional. People tend to trust the services of a site like that less.. Honeslty, before i got into the whole e-commerce thing, i would base the professionalism on the site looks and feel more than the payment security. i know it sounds backwards, but i think the general population does not know much better.. so if you can get the security of paypal built into your website, then you have a win win.. also giving the person the option to log into their paypal account gives the best of both worlds.