[gb2world]

I don't think you will find that x-cart is put together that way - being that there is only one query of the products that controls the information on every page in every situation.

I think in 4.4, manufacturerid is already in the query for all the product arrays. I also think there is an array available to every page that is used in the menu that contains all the manufacturers names. If so - you can use smarty to print the name. But that does not help with what you were trying to do - only have to edit one query somewhere to meet your requirement.

Unless - you are willing to run a query on your database after every time you update that would actually change the product name field to add the manufacturer's name.

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