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Re: All Products on front page, similar to featured products

1) Shall we remove current Featured Products section from front-end or we should simply populate it with the products you need?
2) How these products should be sorted in new section?

Re: All Products on front page, similar to featured products

1. Yes.
2. By product name, as its the name of the puppy.

Re: All Products on front page, similar to featured products

Sorry, I did not quite get the answer to the first question. Would you prefer option 1 (remove current featured products section) or option 2 (populate it with all products)?

Anyway, I will prepare code samples during next week and will post them here.

Re: All Products on front page, similar to featured products

Apologies,

I see what you're asking now. I do not need the Featured Products Section at all, I only want the front page to be populate with all products and sorted by product name.

I really appreciate your help.

Re: All Products on front page, similar to featured products

Ok, thank you. I will post code samples within couple of weeks.

Re: All Products on front page, similar to featured products

As I'm sure you're busy with other projects, I'm willing to pay for this to happen much sooner.

Re: All Products on front page, similar to featured products

Oh, that is a good option as well :)

Re: All Products on front page, similar to featured products

Hi Michael!

So, here is the instruction how to do this mod:
1) Create an empty module according to http://kb.x-cart.com/display/XDD/How+to+create+a+module

Do not forget to adjust your namespace.

2) In your module add the View/Custom/ProductsOnHome.php file with the following content:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php



namespace XLite\Module\XC\CustomSkin\View\Customer;



/**

 *

 * @ListChild (list="center.bottom", zone="customer", weight="300")

 */



class ProductsOnHome extends \XLite\View\ItemsList\Product\Customer\Category\ACategory

{

    protected $allProducts = null;



    protected function getHead()

    {

        'My products';

    }



// this method defines that you do not need pagination

    protected function getPagerClass()

    {

        return '\XLite\View\Pager\Infinity';

    }



// this method defines that all products must be displayed in this section

    protected function getData(\XLite\Core\CommonCell $cnd, $countOnly = false)

    {

        if (!isset($this->allProducts)) {

            $this->allProducts = \XLite\Core\Database::getRepo('XLite\Model\Product')->findAll();

        }



        return true == $countOnly

            ? count($this->allProducts)

            : $this->allProducts;

    }



// disabling ability to sort products and switch between display modes

    protected function defineWidgetParams()

    {

        parent::defineWidgetParams();



        $this->widgetParams[self::PARAM_GRID_COLUMNS]->setValue(3);



        unset($this->widgetParams[self::PARAM_SHOW_DISPLAY_MODE_SELECTOR]);

        unset($this->widgetParams[self::PARAM_SHOW_SORT_BY_SELECTOR]);

    }

}

Again, do not forget to adjust your namespaces.

3) Rebuild the cache and you will see the needed results.

Re: All Products on front page, similar to featured products

This one won't enable either.

Re: All Products on front page, similar to featured products

Please make sure that you have Main.php file in your module, not main.php that starts with small letter.