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[Primordial Performance]

I've almost finished building this myself quick n dirty using {php}, but there must be an easier way. Basically I want a product page that looks like this:

CATEGORY NAME 1
A product another product yet another

CATEGORY NAME 2
fourth product fifth product

etc., with thumbnail and buy now button for each product. It seems like it should be easy to make this from an existing page - I'm afraid that my PHP approach is too much reinventing the wheel, and that a pure smarty solution would be more efficient.

[cflsystems]

I don't think that this exist in xcart by default. You need a php script to query the db for each category and products in it and assign these array values to smarty to use in a template. Using {php} inside template may do the job but it is no good with the amount of data you are trying to get and show

[Primordial Performance]

Originally Posted by cflsystems

I don't think that this exist in xcart by default. You need a php script to query the db for each category and products in it and assign these array values to smarty to use in a template. Using {php} inside template may do the job but it is no good with the amount of data you are trying to get and show

Thanks...I guess I'll just clean up my {php} and move it to a proper php file in the root directory and use smarty properly for display.

Is anyone aware of a reason to avoid using {php} in .tpls OTHER THAN separation of logic and display? Just trying to understand xcart better and keep code as efficient as possible.

Also - if anyone else is looking for the same functionality, let me know and I'll share the technique once it's all clean.

[gizmo]

Wouldn't a good site map generate what you want?

Just thought this may be one way? yep it would have all the other stuff but you could strip it down

[presson83]

Originally Posted by Primordial Performance

Thanks...I guess I'll just clean up my {php} and move it to a proper php file in the root directory and use smarty properly for display.

Is anyone aware of a reason to avoid using {php} in .tpls OTHER THAN separation of logic and display? Just trying to understand xcart better and keep code as efficient as possible.

Also - if anyone else is looking for the same functionality, let me know and I'll share the technique once it's all clean.

I'm very interested in this functionality - how's it coming along?

[presson83]

Found this post and it has a pretty good example of how to do this:
http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=19730&highlight=all+products+by+c ategory+on+one+page