Alternative to Featured Product Manager now firetank seem to have vanished
 

does anyone know of an alternative to:

http://www.firetanksoftware.com/x-cart/Featured-Product-Manager-for-x-cart-pid-146.html

that will work with xCart 4.6, been asking firetank for 3 months but not had any response from them.

I need to able to be able to place products in more than one box on the homepage, eg featured products in one box, and latest specials in a second box that the admin can control.

Re: Alternative to Featured Product Manager now firetank seem to have vanished
 

Second that request, the Featured Product Manager product was great, but Firetank as far as I can tell has gone belly up - they don't respond to emails or support requests and haven't updated their products to 4.6.

Anyone know an acceptable substitute? I use it for custom featured landing pages like this:

http://www.alinc.com/hp-proliant-dl380p-gen8-servers.html

So far I haven't found anything that can give me the same functionality, where a static page can have dynamic links to products reflecting current price and availability.

If anyone feels like tackling the problem, as of 4.6 (up to 4.6.3) the FPM module throws this error:

Re: Alternative to Featured Product Manager now firetank seem to have vanished
 

Can you post line 1575 of your func.product.php ?

Re: Alternative to Featured Product Manager now firetank seem to have vanished
 

sure - it is part of the func_search_products function. here is the exact line:


Attaching my full func.product.php for reference.

Re: Alternative to Featured Product Manager now firetank seem to have vanished
 

This appears to be for 4.6.3. Directly above that line add:
This mimics the similar test on line 1595 below so not sure why they don't also test for it here.

Re: Alternative to Featured Product Manager now firetank seem to have vanished
 

Wow! That totally worked! Thank you!