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Featured products on home page

Hi,

can anybody help me with the problem I've trying to solve for 2 weeks.
I need to show featured products from 3 different categories on the front page.

I know that if I use

Code:

{capture name=dialog}                 

    { include file="customer/main/products.tpl" products=$f_products featured="Y" }             

{/capture}  

             

{ include file="customer/dialog.tpl" title=$lng.lbl_featured_products content=$smarty.capture.dialog sort=true additional_class="products-dialog dialog-featured-list" }

this will show featured products on the home page but not from specific category.
But my task is to show featured products from specific category :/

Please help - I'm stuck on this for a very long time.

Thx in advance!

Re: Featured products on home page

You can mange featured products from XC backend under categories. When you scroll down to the bottom you will see "Featured products"

For more info... http://help.x-cart.com/index.php?title=X-Cart:Featured_Products

Re: Featured products on home page

Thx for reply but I don't think you understood my problem.
I know I can add (general )featured products on the home page.

But I need featured products from specific categories.
So if I go to the "Catalog->Categories", select desired category, scroll to the bottom of the page and add "Featured product" - how can I add this product to the home page (along with other featured products from other categories)?

Or I can ask this question differently...
How can I define featured products category in this import

Code:

{capture name=dialog}                      

    {include file="customer/main/products.tpl" products=$f_products featured="Y"}

{/capture}                 



{include file="customer/dialog.tpl" title=$lng.lbl_featured_products content=$smarty.capture.dialog sort=true additional_class="products-dialog dialog-featured-list"}

It is evident that

Code:

{include file="customer/main/products.tpl" products=$f_products featured="Y"}

imports featured products to the page (home, or any other) - but category ID of these featured products is "0" and I need it to be specific ID(s)

So is it somehow possible to add some category property into this import?
Something like

Code:

{include file="customer/main/products.tpl" cat=123 products=$f_products featured="Y"}

or something similar?

Thx in advance!

Re: Featured products on home page

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nolimits

But I need featured products from specific categories.
So if I go to the "Catalog->Categories", select desired category, scroll to the bottom of the page and add "Featured product" - how can I add this product to the home page (along with other featured products from other categories)?

You don't go to specific category - stay at the root and add feature products from whichever category you want. They will show on front page only

Re: Featured products on home page

I know that, but what if want (and I want :) ) to distinguish featured products by category?
So I need (for example) 3 imports like this:

Code:



{include file="customer/main/products.tpl" products=$f_products featured="Y"}

In case I add products in category id == "0" (featured products with no category) I'll get 3 exact the same results. And I don't want that :/

Thx!

Re: Featured products on home page

Sorry for the confusion.

What I need is to have three separate instances of the
{ include file="customer/main/products.tpl" products=$f_products featured="Y" }
On our home page, each instance will list the featured products from a different category.

The question is:

1. How can I declare which category the featured products are pulled from?
2. How can I have 3 separate instance of the featured products, pull from different categories.

Thx!

Re: Featured products on home page

You can add all products you want and set pos field then use an if/else statement for which products to show on which instance based on pos field numbers

Re: Featured products on home page

I guess the Q i have is what would be the "if/else statement for which products to show on which instance " can you provide an example?

Thx so much. Help is appreciated.

Quote:

Originally Posted by cflsystems

You can add all products you want and set pos field then use an if/else statement for which products to show on which instance based on pos field numbers

Re: Featured products on home page

You can't do this in templates alone. $f_products is only for the current category or home page. You would have to get into the php to do some queries to get the featured products defined in those categories.

Re: Featured products on home page

i use x-cart-4.5.4platinum. how can i show all categories featured products in home page??plz help me.

Re: Featured products on home page

Quote:

Originally Posted by Learner

i use x-cart-4.5.4platinum. how can i show all categories featured products in home page??plz help me.

I also want to show categories featured products at home page in Reboot template.Please help me also.