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Manufacturer category

Is there a way to have the manufacturer section shown above the category section on the home page?

Re: Manufacturer category

There may be a more elegant solution but...

Fire up your x-cart admin menu, select edit templates then navigate to the "customer" directory and select the home.tpl template. ( /customer/home.tpl )

Locate the manufactures display code:

Quote:

{if $active_modules.Manufacturers ne "" and $config.Manufacturers.manufacturers_menu eq "Y"}
{include file="modules/Manufacturers/menu_manufacturers.tpl" }
{/if}

Now move the manufactures code above the categories display code:

Quote:

{if $categories ne "" and ($active_modules.Fancy_Categories ne "" or $config.General.root_categories eq "Y" or $subcategories ne "")}
{include file="customer/categories.tpl" }
<br />
{/if}

On the x-cart stock template, the final version would look like this:

Quote:

{if $active_modules.Manufacturers ne "" and $config.Manufacturers.manufacturers_menu eq "Y"}
{include file="modules/Manufacturers/menu_manufacturers.tpl" }
{/if}
{if $categories ne "" and ($active_modules.Fancy_Categories ne "" or $config.General.root_categories eq "Y" or $subcategories ne "")}
{include file="customer/categories.tpl" }
<br />
{/if}
{if $active_modules.Bestsellers ne "" and $config.Bestsellers.bestsellers_menu eq "Y"}
{include file="modules/Bestsellers/menu_bestsellers.tpl" }
{/if}

-- xray2

Re: Manufacturer category

well done, it works great. thank you

Re: Manufacturer category

Moving this to the Template Editing forum.

Re: Manufacturer category

Further to this thread, I am trying to get the manufacturers list to display permenantly in menu box like the category list does.

I have figured out how to change the name of manufacturers to Brands, now I need to put it in the standard categories bordered menu box and have it appear on every page.

Any thoughts appreciated

Re: Manufacturer category

If you did the change as shown above, it should already do what you ask. How did you change it to "Brands", and did it display properly before you made the name change?

Re: Manufacturer category

Hi,

if you click on makeuwell.com.au in my signature you will see that in the template we are using, 'manufacturers' only appears in the vert left menu under Special, with no border and you have to click on it to actually see the manufacturers.

In order to change the name I just changed the associated label in languages which was easy but I have been unable to figure out how to make the actual list of manufacturers appear on every page like the list of categories does.