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Ok, I have an idea - I can use featured products, specials and new items for this purpose.  I just pick the items I want to be in those categories, and I reference them in the splash page with my own unique header and the visitor doesn't need to know it's a 'new product' or a 'special'.  I don't use either of those anyway.  How can I reference displaying the specials and new items in the same way you can display featured products on the splash page:

<?php 
$this->include_namespace($app,'prodfeature',array());
?>

What namespace would new and specials be under?

Regards,

James...

Last edited by wyattea (03-05-2008 15:41:08)

just out of curiosity, is there a reason for the space after the referenced name?  there isn't one for prodfeature?

also, how could I have found that out myself...is there somewhere you referenced or did you just know what .php file it was already mentioned in?

Thanks Dave! <--- my new signature...

wyattea wrote:

also, how could I have found that out myself...is there somewhere you referenced or did you just know what .php file it was already mentioned in?

You find things like that out by going to the page either on your own site or the demo site and looking at the resulting URL.  With SEO off it's quite apparent what is being called and how.

In this particular case though I just glanced at a mod I did not long ago which used all of the names like that (the one in post 8 of ).

Yesterday I set my New Products to 4 per row and it still only showed 3 of them even with 5 or 6 products set to true...is there another place to 'turn it on' that I missed?

(theblade24: sorry to not be helpful but you happen to be bringing up issues I'm having to - i'm not stalking your posts )

Dave I don't want to randomize the featured to include new specials etc.

I want it to randomly pick from the items flagged as featured.

So if there are 10 items flagged as featured, and it is set to display 3 featured items on splash page...

Will it simply go down the products list and pick the first three it comes to each time, meaning the same 3 every time the splash is refreshed?

or will it go to the 10 flagged items and randomly pick 3 to display each time?

What is the default behavior?

If it picks the same first 3 every time, how would I make it randomly pick 3 of the 10 instead?

"ALL of the products flagged as featured will be displayed every time."

So if I have 10 flagged as featured, but ccp is set to only display 6 on the splash page, it will display 10 anyway?

Home > ClickCartPro > Settings: Application Settings Menu > Catalog Global Displays

Splash Page: Number of Featured Products to Display*

Select the number of featured products to display in the featured products listing.

Eight

So I guess if you set it to display 8, then you really need to just flag 8.

If you set more items to be displayed on the splash page than you have set to display in Home > ClickCartPro > Settings: Application Settings Menu > Catalog Global Displays > Splash Page: Number of Featured Products to Display* and make an edit to the code in your private_dir/khxc/app/ccp0/CCP/CCP.php in Function: prodfeature looking for:

// +--
// | Piece together our SQL statement and execute it.
// +--

$count = $this->globals('khxc_settings.' . $this->app . '.prodfeaturenum');

if (empty($count)) {$count = 1;}

$sql .= $where;

$result = $this->KHXC_DB->sql_do(array('sql'    => $sql,
                                       'table'  => $table,
                                       'order'  => array('sortorder' => 'ASC'),
                                       'count'  => $count,
                                       'offset' => 0));

and change it to this:

// +--
// | Piece together our SQL statement and execute it.
// +--

$count = $this->globals('khxc_settings.' . $this->app . '.prodfeaturenum');

if (empty($count)) {$count = 1;}

$sql .= $where;

// +---
// | Changed order from 'order' => array('sortorder' => 'ASC')
// +---

$result = $this->KHXC_DB->sql_do(array('sql'    => $sql,
                                       'table'  => $table,
                                       'order'  => array('RAND()' => 'ASC'),
                                       'count'  => $count,
                                       'offset' => 0));

the site will randomly select the number of items to be displayed form those that are flaged to be displayed, giving you different splash page items every time the page is called.

This mod was originally posted on the UK side.

John

John, I notice Featured Products allows you to specify how many are displayed.  Is that possible with Best Sellers and Specials? It doesn't give the option, only the ability to put # per row.

Regards,

James...

ah, no, I just wanted it to work the same as featured.

I don't actually use any of them as actual pages, I just call the three of them on my splash page 'manually':

<?php $this->include_namespace($app,'prodfeature',array());?>
<?php $this->include_namespace($app,'prodspec',array());?>
<?php $this->include_namespace($app,'prodbest',array());?>

I have text/headings in between them, I just pasted the calls to show what I was doing with those three namespaces.  I won't have an actual link anywhere on my site to 'Best Sellers' or 'Specials' or 'Featured Products'.

James...

Or rather, how do I make this change in CCP7?