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Hi I want to add a "View details" button to "customer/main/products.tpl"

Yeah, I know that there are already 3 + links to details page from every product in products.tpl, but I want to make it even more obvious.

In my store, as of right now, I have "Buy now" enabled along with "Wishlist". Those are the only 2 buttons I have in there at the moment, sitting right under the "Select quantity" box. What I would love to have is a button " View Details" instead of "Add to wishlist" button in my products list, when clicked it should bring my customer to that product details page.

I noticed that in products.tpl Wishlist button included as a part of "customer/main/buy_now.tpl, but on product details page it included as separate template.

I decided to create a duplicate templates "customer/main/buy_now.tpl" and ""buttons/add_to_wishlist.tpl" (I called them "customer/main/buy_now1.tpl" and "buttons/add_to_wishlist1.tpl") to test thing out before making changes. I don't mind having wishlist button in products details page, but I don't need wishlist button in products.tpl and want to have View details" button instead.

I figured easiest way to achieve it, is to create 2 separate templates "buttons/add_to_wishlist.tpl"(original) and buttons/add_to_wishlist1.tpl"(duplicate); original one for product.tpl and duplicate one for products.tpl.
Here is how I modified them :

customer/main/buy_now1.tpl :

 
{* $Id: buy_now1.tpl,v 1.30.2.12 2008/07/22 07:58:28 ferz Exp $ *}
{if $product.price gt 0 or ($active_modules.Special_Offers ne "" and $product.use_special_price ne "")}
{if $config.Product_Options.buynow_with_options_enabled eq 'Y' || ($product.avail eq 0 && $product.variantid && $product.product_type ne 'C')}
{assign var="buynow_enabled" value=false}
{else}
{assign var="buynow_enabled" value=true}
{/if}
<form name="orderform_{$product.productid}_{$product.add_date}" method="post" action="{if $product.is_product_options eq 'Y' && !$buynow_enabled}product.php?productid={$product.productid}{else}cart.php?mode=add{/if}">
<input type="hidden" name="productid" value="{$product.productid}" />
<input type="hidden" name="cat" value="{$smarty.get.cat|escape:"html"}" />
<input type="hidden" name="page" value="{$smarty.get.page|escape:"html"}" />
{/if}
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
{if $product.price eq 0 and not ($active_modules.Special_Offers ne "" and $product.use_special_price ne "")}
<tr>
 <td height="25">
{assign var="button_href" value=$smarty.get.page|escape:"html"}
{include file="buttons/buy_now.tpl" style="button" href="product.php?productid=`$product.productid`&cat=`$cat`&page=`$button_href`"}
 </td>
</tr>
{else}
{if $product.is_product_options ne 'Y' || $buynow_enabled || $product.variantid}
<tr>
{if $config.General.unlimited_products ne "Y" && ($product.avail le 0 or $product.avail lt $product.min_amount) && $product.variantid}
 <td class="BuyNowQuantity">{$lng.lbl_quantity}</td>
 <td width="20%" nowrap="nowrap"><b>{$lng.txt_out_of_stock}</b></td>
{elseif $product.distribution eq "" && !($active_modules.Subscriptions ne "" and $products[product].catalogprice)}
 <td class="BuyNowQuantity">{$lng.lbl_quantity}</td>
 <td width="20%" nowrap="nowrap">
{if $config.General.unlimited_products ne "Y" && ($product.avail le 0 or $product.avail lt $product.min_amount)}
<b>{$lng.txt_out_of_stock}</b>
{else}
{if $config.General.unlimited_products eq "Y"}
{assign var="mq" value=$config.Appearance.max_select_quantity}
{else}
{math equation="x/y" x=$config.Appearance.max_select_quantity y=$product.min_amount assign="tmp"} 
{if $tmp<2}
{assign var="minamount" value=$product.min_amount} 
{else} 
{assign var="minamount" value=1}
{/if} 
{math equation="min(maxquantity+minamount, productquantity+1)" assign="mq" maxquantity=$config.Appearance.max_select_quantity minamount=$minamount productquantity=$product.avail}
{/if}
{if $product.min_amount le 1}
{assign var="start_quantity" value=1}
{else}
{assign var="start_quantity" value=$product.min_amount}
{/if}
{if $config.General.unlimited_products eq "Y"}
{math equation="x+y" assign="mq" x=$mq y=$start_quantity}
{/if}
<select name="amount">
{section name=quantity loop=$mq start=$start_quantity}
 <option value="{%quantity.index%}"{if $smarty.get.quantity eq %quantity.index%} selected="selected"{/if}>{%quantity.index%}</option>
{/section}
</select>
{/if}
 </td>
{else}
 <td style="display: none;"><input type="hidden" name="amount" value="1" /></td>
{/if}
 <td class="BuyNowPrices">
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="add" />
{include file="customer/main/product_prices.tpl" no_span=true}
 </td>
</tr>
{elseif $product.distribution eq "" && !($active_modules.Subscriptions ne "" and $products[product].catalogprice) && $config.General.unlimited_products ne "Y" && ($product.avail le 0 or $product.avail lt $product.min_amount) && !$product.variantid}
<tr>
 <td colspan="3" height="25"><b>{$lng.txt_out_of_stock}</b></td>
</tr>
{/if}
<tr>
 <td colspan="3">
{if $config.General.unlimited_products eq "Y" || ($product.avail gt 0 and $product.avail ge $product.min_amount) || ($product.variantid and $product.avail gt 0)}
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
{if $js_enabled}
{if $special_offers_add_to_cart eq 'Y'}
 <td>{include file="buttons/add_to_cart.tpl" style="button" href="javascript: document.orderform_`$product.productid`_`$product.add_date`.submit();"}</td>
{else}
 <td>{include file="buttons/buy_now.tpl" style="button" href="javascript: document.orderform_`$product.productid`_`$product.add_date`.submit(); return false;"}</td>
{/if}
{if ($login ne "" || $config.Wishlist.add2wl_unlogged_user eq 'Y') && $active_modules.Wishlist ne "" && $special_offers_add_to_cart eq "" && ($product.is_product_options ne 'Y' || $buynow_enabled)}
 <td style="padding-left: 20px;">
{include file="buttons/add_to_wishlist1.tpl" style="button" href="product.php?productid={$products[product].productid}"}
 </td>
{/if}
{else}
 <td>{include file="submit_wo_js.tpl" value=$lng.lbl_buy_now}</td>
{/if}
</tr>
</table>
{/if}
 </td>
</tr>
{if $product.min_amount gt 1}
<tr>
 <td colspan="3"><font class="ProductDetailsTitle">{$lng.txt_need_min_amount|substitute:"items":$product.min_amount}</font></td>
</tr>
{/if}
{/if}
</table>
{if $product.price gt 0 or ($active_modules.Special_Offers ne "" and $product.use_special_price ne "")}
</form>
{/if}

buttons/add_to_wishlist1.tpl :

{include file="buttons/button.tpl" button_title="View Details" href=$href title=$title style=$style}

Last thing I did, I replaced buy_now.tpl with my test buy_now1.tpl in "customer/main/products.tpl", and crossed my fingers hoping it will do it.

It didnt quiet work, its now showing me a desired button "View details" but also it placeed " "} " after button itself in my products list. also when I push the new button it prings me to access denied page without login option.

I am giving up.. can anyone tell me what is the right way to achieve my goal? I am sure there is a much simpler, correct way to do it.

Please help!!!