daithi Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 -->Date available and featured until date now works. am i missing something here? i can't see the featured until date... where should this be? I am using your admin/categories.php from 11/03/2003 - cieto Featured Products v2.51 MS2 thanks, daithi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 4, 2003 Author Share Posted November 4, 2003 How to There are 2 ways to set the featured status of product as "true". From the product listing in the admin or when you create/update a product. From the product listing you just need to click on the green line in the Featured column... doing this you will add this products "xx" days from the current date.. you can change this "xx" days from configuration -> Featured Products -> Featured Period. When you create/update a product you need to use the second line of radio buttions (under you set the status of the product).The featured until date here you can set up it as you want.. if you are having troubles with this give me a call.. sometimes the javascript for the calendar it?s not well loaded.. so refresh the page... cheers emiliano Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daithi Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 From the product listing you just need to click on the green line in the Featured column... doing this you will add this products "xx" days from the current date.. you can change this "xx" days from configuration -> Featured Products -> Featured Period. ok, thanks, i got this one... When you create/update a product you need to use the second line of radio buttions (under you set the status of the product).The featured until date here you can set up it as you want.. if you are having troubles with this give me a call.. sometimes the javascript for the calendar it?s not well loaded.. so refresh the page... a bit confused here, maybe i am not seeing this as i am using mozilla on linux?? all i see is: Products Status: In Stock Out of Stock FeatredProducts Status: In Stock Out of Stock Date Available: (YYYY-MM-DD) Products Manufacturer: Products Name: daiti. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopes_andre Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 (edited) Emiliano, I am using the new 2.51 and I think the "categories.php" is not working, I don't see the the green and red lights in the Featured column, the Featured column does not appear. Regards, Andre'. Edited November 4, 2003 by lopes_andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 4, 2003 Author Share Posted November 4, 2003 You have the old categories.php, i upload a new one with version 2.51... So you will see this: Products Status: () In Stock () Out of Stock FeatredProducts Status: () In Stock () Out of Stock Date Available: [text box] (YYYY-MM-DD) Date Available: [text box] (YYYY-MM-DD) The second Date Availabe is the one where you have to setup Featured Until Date. I forget to add a text to change this.. so in line 532 (admin/categories.php) change this: <td class="main"><?php echo TEXT_PRODUCTS_DATE_AVAILABLE; ?><br><small>(YYYY-MM-DD)</small></td> with this: <td class="main">Featured until <?php echo TEXT_PRODUCTS_DATE_AVAILABLE; ?><br><small>(YYYY-MM-DD)</small></td> If the problem is that you can't see the text box to add the date, i'm terribly sorry, but that's the way osc handle the calendar box... cheers emiliano Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 4, 2003 Author Share Posted November 4, 2003 (edited) Emiliano, I am using the new 2.51 and I think the "categories.php" is not working, I don't see the the green and red lights in the Featured column, the Featured column does not appear. Regards, Andre'. when i try to be stupid i'm the best one... new categories.php upload in contributions... cheers emiliano Edited November 4, 2003 by emiliano Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horizon70s Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 Has anyone been able to pick apart the changes in the admin/categories.php file? I've got too many mods and I can't tell of the subtle changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 4, 2003 Author Share Posted November 4, 2003 Has anyone been able to pick apart the changes in the admin/categories.php file? I've got too many mods and I can't tell of the subtle changes. The idea is to found every part where product_description appears and create a similar one call product_short.. Then you have to duplicate the products status, the date available.. also you need to create a column to change the featured status from the admin product listing.. it's quite tricky... good luck! emiliano Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopes_andre Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 It's all ok now. Thanks for this GREAT contribution Emiliano. Regards, Andre'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 5, 2003 Author Share Posted November 5, 2003 Thanks to everyone who help me to debug the version!!! if someone wants to contribute (noneone does...) for using this contribution has 2 options or contribute to the osCommerce team or myself... whatever you do will help to keep this project on... cheers emiliano cieto Featured Products Donwload @ http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,505 Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maz Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 Hi Emiliano Th Feutured Products is a great contribution. It works perfectly. Many thanks. The SHORT DESCRIPTION feature is excellent for the featured products. I would love for the SAME SHORT DESCRIPTION text to appear on say the product listings next to each product. There IS a contribution that adds short text to product listings which it truncates from the main description. HOWEVER, now that you have added a SHORT DESCRIPTION entry box in the admin, it would be brilliant if this could be used to show SHORT DESCRIPTIONS anywhere on the site. The problem is I don't know how. I have tried copying and pasting the following code on the product info page but all I get is three dots ... printed. <?php if ($featured_products_array[$i]['shortdescription'] != '') { echo $featured_products_array[$i]['shortdescription']; } else { $bah = explode(" ", $featured_products_array[$i]['description']); for($desc=0; $desc<MAX_FEATURED_WORD_DESCRIPTION; $desc++) { echo "$bah[$desc] "; } echo '...'; } ?> Would be most grateful if you could guide me on the exact code to reproduce the 'SHORT LISTINGS' anywhere on any page. A clean php icon which I could just cut and paste anywhere. Many thanks Maz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 5, 2003 Author Share Posted November 5, 2003 i made a product listing with my short description some time ago.. i really don?t know if that file exist at the moment and if it would work with MS2... Yo need to add products_short in the query of the product listing and change featured_products_array to the array inthe product listing if the product listing works with an array... the problem right now is that at the moment i started with exams at the university and i will finish on December 23th... i?m terribly sorry but i will disappear, if i have time i will give you some hints how to do what you are looking for, but i can?t guaranted anything.. cheers emiliano Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davee Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 I have installed this mod, but the short descritption displays "Array" instead of the description, any ideas? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 7, 2003 Author Share Posted November 7, 2003 array??? mmm are you sure you follow all the steps and check twice everyting? Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackof Posted November 8, 2003 Share Posted November 8, 2003 I have installed this mod and its working fine and I LOVE IT! Thanks a lot, emiliano, for this wonderful Feature :) The only problem which i am facing are with the green and red button. When i edit/add any product and designate it into 'Featured Product', the field 'TABLE_HEADING_FEATURED' always shows the red button. I tried different ways but it remains the same. What changes would i need to do inorder to make it perfect? I think i need to defind 'TABLE_HEADING_FEATURED' in the language/english/index.php file ? Hope m right ;) Warm regards, Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daithi Posted November 8, 2003 Share Posted November 8, 2003 does this mod work when in ategories - ie. show only featured products from that category? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 8, 2003 Author Share Posted November 8, 2003 The only problem which i am facing are with the green and red button. When i edit/add any product and designate it into 'Featured Product', the field 'TABLE_HEADING_FEATURED' always shows the red button. I tried different ways but it remains the same. What changes would i need to do inorder to make it perfect? I think i need to defind 'TABLE_HEADING_FEATURED' in the language/english/index.php file ? Hope m right ;) You only see the red light? what about the product status? there you only see the red light too? or you can see the green light in the product status.. if TABLE_HEADING_FEATURED it's not define, do it, but i think that doing this it's not the solution to see the green light. This contribution is perfect :D emiliano Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 8, 2003 Author Share Posted November 8, 2003 does this mod work when in ategories - ie. show only featured products from that category? From the readme: --- WHAT IS IT? --- The purpose of this contribution is to replace the "New Products" Infobox that appears on the main page and top-level category pages, to show selected (by the admin) products, instead of new products. Is posible to create a short description of every product in every language set in the site. So you can show your featured products in your default page with a short description of the products or show a part of the description. On the main default page of osCommerce, a selection of ALL the featured products will be display, and in top-level categories, only featured products that belongs to that category. For example, "A Bug's Life" is a DVD movie in the sub-category "Cartoons", and "Cartoons" is a sub-category of "DVD Movies". If "A Bug's Life" is made a featured product, it will appear on the main osCommerce page, and also on the DVD Movies category page, but not on the Hardware page. If there are more featured products than the maximum allowed to be displayed, a random selection will be shown. Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daithi Posted November 8, 2003 Share Posted November 8, 2003 On the main default page of osCommerce, a selection of ALL the featured products will be display, and in top-level categories, only featured products that belongs to that category. For example, "A Bug's Life" is a DVD movie in the sub-category "Cartoons", and "Cartoons" is a sub-category of "DVD Movies". If "A Bug's Life" is made a featured product, it will appear on the main osCommerce page, and also on the DVD Movies category page, but not on the Hardware page. If there are more featured products than the maximum allowed to be displayed, a random selection will be shown. yes, i saw that but this part doesn't work for me so was unsure if this was still correct... any ideas why this wouldn't work for me? no errors, just the featured box does not display on the categories pages... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 8, 2003 Author Share Posted November 8, 2003 The contribution shows the featured products in the category page, not in products listing.. Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daithi Posted November 8, 2003 Share Posted November 8, 2003 yeah, i know this is how it is supposed to work, bit for some reason it doesn't for me... you can see here. Shouldn't the featured products in this category show above the list of products in the category? thanks, daithi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 8, 2003 Author Share Posted November 8, 2003 Because there is a product listing there!!! Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daithi Posted November 8, 2003 Share Posted November 8, 2003 sorry, i am confused here... the mod shows fine on the front page, when i click on a categories link it does not show. there is a product listing on that page because there are products in that category, if there were no products in the category, there would be no product listing and also no products to display under featured... so when should it show on a categorys page? have you a working site i can see the mod on? thanks again for the help, daithi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiliano Posted November 9, 2003 Author Share Posted November 9, 2003 sorry, i am confused here...the mod shows fine on the front page, when i click on a categories link it does not show. there is a product listing on that page because there are products in that category, if there were no products in the category, there would be no product listing and also no products to display under featured... so when should it show on a categorys page? have you a working site i can see the mod on? thanks again for the help, daithi. The idea is to show products where the new products infobox was... Quote patagonia, argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OregonBum Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 This is a great contrib. Was able to install without errors, but now my main categories on the main page aren't showing up. Switching back to the prior index page doesn't change anything. An ideas on why that might have happened? Thanks! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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