Random Manufacturers in Manufacturer menu box
 

Here's a quick mod to show random manufacturers in the Manufacturer menu box. Great for stores that have lots of manufacturers.

Open up modules/Manufacturers/customer_manufacturers.php
Find this line:

Change it to this:

Carrie

Wow, I just happened to need that for our new X-Mall. Thanks Carrie!

- Mike

Glad I could help! ;) Such a simple mod but would be very useful to many stores. Should be an option in the x-cart admin I think.

Carrie

An option, definitely! Manufactureres is a module, so a checkbox in module settings would suffice. I could see though that some stores still need to have control over their order, but it would be a nice way to get people to try different manufacturers, which often is a good result.

Thanks and we quite enjoy your X-mall feature... it adds a whole other dimension to using XC.

- Mike

Glad you like the X-mall. ;)

Carrie

Re: Random Manufacturers in Manufacturer menu box
 

Hello Carrie,
I am getting following mysql error I guess due to version change. Can you please post the code for version 4.1.7 ?

INVALID SQL: 1064 : You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
SQL QUERY FAILURE:SELECT * FROM xcart_manufacturers USE INDEX (avail) WHERE avail = 'Y' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT

Re: Random Manufacturers in Manufacturer menu box
 

I am using 4.1.8, and I have no matching code in my customer_manufactuers.php file.

Here is my file:

ustomer_manufacturers.php,v 1.12.2.1 2007/03/22 13:54:54 svowl Exp $
#

if ( !defined('XCART_START') ) { header("Location: ../"); die("Access denied"); }

$manufacturers_menu = func_query_first_cell("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $sql_tbl[manufacturers] USE INDEX (avail) WHERE avail = 'Y'");
if ($manufacturers_menu > 0) {
if ($config["Manufacturers"]["manufacturers_limit"] > 0)
$smarty->assign("show_other_manufacturers", $manufacturers_menu>$config["Manufacturers"]["manufacturers_limit"]);
$manufacturers_menu = func_query("SELECT $sql_tbl[manufacturers].*, IF($sql_tbl[images_M].id IS NULL, '', 'Y') as is_image, $sql_tbl[images_M].image_path, IFNULL($sql_tbl[manufacturers_lng].manufacturer, $sql_tbl[manufacturers].manufacturer) as manufacturer, IFNULL($sql_tbl[manufacturers_lng].descr, $sql_tbl[manufacturers].descr) as descr FROM $sql_tbl[manufacturers] USE INDEX (avail) LEFT JOIN $sql_tbl[manufacturers_lng] ON $sql_tbl[manufacturers].manufacturerid = $sql_tbl[manufacturers_lng].manufacturerid AND $sql_tbl[manufacturers_lng].code = '$shop_language' LEFT JOIN $sql_tbl[images_M] ON $sql_tbl[manufacturers].manufacturerid = $sql_tbl[images_M].id WHERE $sql_tbl[manufacturers].avail = 'Y' ORDER BY $sql_tbl[manufacturers].orderby, $sql_tbl[manufacturers].manufacturer".(($config["Manufacturers"]["manufacturers_limit"] > 0) ? " LIMIT ".$config["Manufacturers"]["manufacturers_limit"] : ""));
$smarty->assign("manufacturers_menu", $manufacturers_menu);
}

?>

Re: Random Manufacturers in Manufacturer menu box
 

Try this.
Find the:
$manufacturers_menu = func_query(
line in the modules/Manufacturers/customer_manufacturers.php file.

Then find this in that line:
ORDER BY orderby

and change it to:
ORDER BY RAND()

Let me know if that doesn't work. Should be all you need to do though.

Thanks!

Carrie

Re: Random Manufacturers in Manufacturer menu box
 

Sorry, no matches found.

The closest thing I could find is this:

ORDER BY $sql_tbl[manufacturers].orderby,

Re: Random Manufacturers in Manufacturer menu box
 

^ That's the same match, replace it.