X-Cart forums - Manufacturer Descriptions on Manufacturers Page

This is a really simple MOD and most people could probably figure it out in 5 mins but when I've been searching around for MODs, even the simple ones are handy!

The MOD changes the layout of manufacturers.php if you are using that feature. It displays a short description of the manufacturer next to it.

It pulls the description from the "META Description" tag used when adding a manufacturer, and displays it next to the Manufacturer label and wraps them in a table. This saves you from any editting of the database or labels. The META description should also be a reasonable length for this use.

You need to edit

Code:

skin1/modules/Manufacturers/customer_manufacturers_list.tpl

Change the main code from {capture] to {/capture} as follows:

Code:

{capture name=dialog}

  {include file="customer/main/navigation.tpl"}

<table border="0" width="580" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" id="manufacturertable">    

{foreach from=$manufacturers item=v}

     <tr>        

<td nowrap valign="top"><a href="manufacturers.php?manufacturerid={$v.manufacturerid}">

{$v.manufacturer|escape}</a></td>

<td>{$v.meta_description}</td>

    </tr>

{/foreach}

</table>

  {include file="customer/main/navigation.tpl"}

{/capture}

I'm using a fixed width template so have fixed the table width at 580.

My version is 4.3.

Hope thats useful to someone out there!! :wink: