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I just viewed your product page and figured out a great solution to moving your options into your product detail area.  We were thinking about the issue programatically when we should have been thinking about the displays.  Try this:

In the management interface, under the ClickCartPro application:

ClickCartPro > Displays: Skins, Menus, XHTML Includes and Messages > Manage Catalog Product Displays: Detail View

Clone the product display you're currently using.  For this example, we'll assume you're using the 'Default Format' display.  At the end of that include, you'll see:

</td></tr></table>

Replace that with:

</td><td>

<?php $this->globals('ecom.closetable_emailafriend',1); ?>

Now go to ClickCartPro > Displays: Skins, Menus, XHTML Includes and Messages > Manage XHTML Includes.  Edit the display include named 'Email a Friend Link'. 

Look for (at the top):

$link_emailf = $this->link_namespace($app,'emailfriend',array('ref' => $ref));

Right after that, add:

if ($this->globals('ecom.closetable_emailafriend')) {print '</td></tr></table>';}

This has the effect of closing the table later on after the options are printed by passing a value to the next include encounted (the Email A Friend include in this case - due to the fact you're using that function) and having that include close it.  You could event print a <div> pair between the two and have full CSS control over the options (instead of showing them in the default format). 

Once you've finished this stuff, assign your new product display type to your products you would like displayed like this.

Nick,

Well...... got it working the way I want, but it WILL NOT VALIDATE. The table closing routines I suppose. I've spent hours and hours trying to get it working right and then many hours trying to get it to validate.

What was happening that cost me much time to fix was when you click the email a friend link it popped into that same column. Of course, it's too wide for that column for 1024 x 768 (have to side scroll). So I tricked it a little. Go to that page and click the email a friend link and you'll see what it does. If I can ever get it to validate I can move on to finding all those other things below to square that options/add to cart display away.

I have to be able to reassign new CSS to that pre-built options table to control alignment and size; and edit whatever is entering the verbiage. I need to edit the "All require fields are marked..."; edit the "Add to your Shopping Cart..." label and assign new CSS; edit the Quantity*  and options cells and assign new CSS and try to get Quantity text left inline to form field; assign new CSS to the add buttons to control width and try to get inline (in resolution 1280 x 1024 the buttons are inline, but stacked vertical at 1024 x 768).

I haven't found yet where the table and print commands for those "elements" are located. I don't recall seeing ang table format commands in CCP_Prod.php, so more searching is needed to find what is holding the other end of the leash.

You can see where we are so far here - http://www.spadedlady.com/khxc/ccp0-pro … 002-M.html

Last edited by slydog (01-16-2007 07:20:12)

Sure, I can put it back.

FWIW, this is the code from the bottom of the page you looked at yesterday:

</td></tr></table>
</td>
<td class="khxc_ghost_r">
Need to figure out how to put<br/>the options and stuff here.
</td></tr>

</table>

</td></tr></table>

I had a copy of that an put it back -- it validated.

Then I changed the bottom code to this:

</td></tr></table>
</td>
<td class="khxc_ghost_r">
Need to figure out how to put<br/>the options and stuff here.
</td></tr>

</table>

</td>

<?php $this->globals('ecom.closetable_emailafriend',1); ?>

That does not validate or move the option display.

When I get it to this:

</td></tr></table>
</td>
<td class="khxc_ghost_r">

<?php $this->globals('ecom.closetable_emailafriend',1); ?>

It starts working but does not validate and the email form you have to scroll sideways for on 1024X 768

Like this is same result as above and no validate:

</td></tr></table>

<td class="khxc_ghost_r">

<?php $this->globals('ecom.closetable_emailafriend',1); ?>

This doesn't work:

</td></tr></table>

<td class="khxc_ghost_r">
</td>
<?php $this->globals('ecom.closetable_emailafriend',1); ?>

Neither does this:

</td></tr></table>

<td class="khxc_ghost_r">

<?php $this->globals('ecom.closetable_emailafriend',1); ?>
</td>

So I took it backward for you to the first method that started to work without my manipulating the columns. Like this:

</td></tr></table>
</td>
<td class="khxc_ghost_r">

<?php $this->globals('ecom.closetable_emailafriend',1); ?>

The email link file has remained like this throughout:

<?php

$app         = $this->globals('khxc_display.app');
$ref         = $this->globals('ecom.prod_id');

$link_emailf = $this->link_namespace($app,'emailfriend',array('ref' => $ref));


if ($this->globals('ecom.closetable_emailafriend')) {print '</td></tr></table>';}

?>

<div class="khxc_storelink_emlfr">

<a href="<?php print $link_emailf; ?>" title="Email a Friend">Click to email this product info. to a friend.</a>

</div>

Had it working pretty slick with only needing to find all the places to change the display of that options table and text. I've run straight through the night with no sleep trying to work it out and get it to validate. No joy. There must be some really quirky reason.

Ok, I cloned that one product and called it test3, the one we have been viewing retained it's regular name. So this one without my column manipulation to accomodate the email form at 1024 x 768 validates BUT clicking the email friend link renders a non-validating page:
http://www.spadedlady.com/khxc/ccp0-pro … 002-M.html

This one has my column manipulation. It also works and validates, BUT clicking the email friend link renders a non-validating page:
http://www.spadedlady.com/khxc/ccp0-prodshow/Test3.html

The first has 6 errors on the email friend page and the second 8 errors. Except for the Test3 email form page having one <div> error, both have all td tr table errors. So I figure the there may need to be some IF statements somewhere (email friend link maybe) to change the format when it's on that page.

Yep, already have that on that static column page except that it looks like this:

</td>
<td class="khxc_ghost_r">

<?php $this->globals('ecom.closetable_emailafriend',1); ?>

But I made another page and ran it all through the validator anyway http://www.spadedlady.com/khxc/ccp0-prodshow/test5.html

The other td tr and table closing you see above that in my previous post are only the endings to that red dashed table that is embedded in column 2. That code works, but will only validate with this double td tr and table string in the email a friend file:
if ($this->globals('ecom.closetable_emailafriend')) {print '</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>';}

But the email form "emailfriend" page won't validate. I assume that the table construction to that changes the formatting and will require isolating the offending td tr table & div bits and contolling them with IF statements for rendering proper when that "element" loads.

Last edited by slydog (01-16-2007 23:05:46)

Re: the original post.  I do get a warning when I try to validate due to the empty paragraph tag the php is printing.  It's trying to trim the empty tag.  I replaced </p> with <br /> and I have that lovely little green checkmark in the corner of my browser (TIDY plugin for Firefox you can validate your pages without navigating to the w3 page). 

Thanks for this though!


Edit:  scratch that, the <br /> leaves too large a space.  You can just leave it empty!  So mine looks like this:

<td id="skin_ct_mcol">

     <?php

$ns        = $this->globals('khxc.namespace');

if ($ns == 'splash') {

print '';

} elseif ($ns == 'catshow') {

print '';

} else {

           /* PHP FUNCTION */
           /* Prints the page title.   */
           $skinfunc->titletag($disp_title);

} // End of if statement

?>

No more xhtml warnings

Last edited by kiwimum (01-21-2007 03:27:12)

Hey Slydog, I actually miss the "continue shopping" buttons - the use the back button and refresh seems kind of clunky to me.  But I like how you removed the checkout after the wishlist.

Ack, really?  My current cart (not ccp) takes them back to where they were - maybe we should put that in the feature request forum.  Dumping them back on the store home page isn't very helpful. 

Looks fine in FF, I'm seeing the regular gray browser buttons, not the CSS buttons the new cart has for submit and search and stuff.  I wish I could attach a screenshot - is that what you were aiming for? 

Edit:  Oh, I went and read this:  https://forum.kryptronic.com/viewtopic.php?id=15286  "checkout" next to "Update Shopping Cart" is just a text link.  You can e-mail me at verymom at gmail dot com and I'll send you a screen shot if you like.  I'm on Firefox 2.0.1 on a mac.  I haven't looked at it on my PC.

I didn't know FF freaked out over buttons like that.  I'll be doing the same thing (or trying to, shortly) if I figure anything out I'll share, but you'll probably get to it before me.

Last edited by kiwimum (01-21-2007 18:59:54)

kiwimum,

Just saw your EDIT. Screen shot could go to webmaster at (you know the base url). Thanks.

Last edited by slydog (01-21-2007 19:40:26)

Here's what I was seeing, figured I'd just upload it:  http://verybaby.com/screenshot.png 

It looks like you've fixed it though, here's what I see today: http://verybaby.com/screenshot2.png

Looks fine on Safari too.

I noticed your product page looks a lot better in Safari - I can see the background images:  http://verybaby.com/ProductsscrnS.png  But on FF it's mostly black:  http://verybaby.com/ProductscrnFF.png

You might be in there working on it at the moment, but I figured I'd share since I was uploading screenshots anyway.

Last edited by kiwimum (01-22-2007 14:38:50)

Hi Slydog,

Is there any way to apply a different label - other than the standard "Categories" - but have it change depending on what category you are in.

So for example is I have the following breadcrumb:

store -> house -> window
store -> office  -> door

When I am in the "house" or "office" categoires, I would like to change the standard "Categories" label to be "Properties".
Simialr for the "window and door" expect the lable might be "Parts".

So what do you think? Any ideas on php code to change the lable based on the breadcrumb?

Thanks

Hi Nick,

Yes I am talking about the standard "label" for categories and subcategories?

Can this be done - if so can you provide example code?

Thanks.