Help with product page display! Help Please!

sparker2 · #1 02-28-2007, 02:42 PM

Hi guys, can someone be so kind to help me. I do not like the way x-cart displays my products when you choose a category. I would like all my products to be displayed on the page side by side without the buy now buttons and the descriptions. I really do not like this. I would like to have just the images showing and the product name and price then when the customer click the image for more details they will see the description, price, qty, add to cart, wish list, options and all the other stuff. Please help with any ideas to how I can make this happen. Thanks in advance for your help and time.

balinor · #2 02-28-2007, 03:04 PM

Take a look at General Settings/Appearance Options. There is a 'view products in multiple columns' setting. Set it to 3, uncheck the 'display only featured products in multiple columns'. See if that layout is better

sparker2 · #3 02-28-2007, 03:38 PM

thanks for your reply. I tried that and I got an error.

Error: Smarty error: [in customer/main/products_t.tpl line 94]: syntax error: mismatched tag {/section}. expected {/if} (opened line 42). (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 2286) in /homepages/8/d193472547/htdocs/Smarty-2.6.12/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

sparker2 · #4 02-28-2007, 03:41 PM

No, this does not work! It only displays when it is set to 0. Please help me someone.

balinor · #5 02-28-2007, 03:41 PM

Have you done any editing to products_t.tpl? If so, restore the original as it looks like there are some Smarty errors in there.

sparker2 · #6 02-28-2007, 03:44 PM

yes I add a few mods from BCS Engineering which I am not happy with.

balinor · #7 02-28-2007, 03:47 PM

Well there you go. By default, this works nicely as you can see on the demo version. Either uninstall the mods, or see where the error is.

sparker2 · #8 02-28-2007, 03:59 PM

Ok balinor restored the original file and now it is working. How can I make the image a popup for a closer look instead of going to the details page? Seems like the image should popup into a bigger image for closer viewing. If the customer wants to see details and purchase they would need to click on the (see details) text. Also adding to the cart seems to be very slow, what may be causing this? I am using cable internet and it seems to take a while to add products to cart.

balinor · #9 02-28-2007, 04:45 PM

Adding a detailed pop-up on that page would be a bit of custom work.

sparker2 · #10 02-28-2007, 05:38 PM

I do not understand this cart. I am starting not to like it because I am finding that the most basic things that are needed in a nice shopping cart are not included in this cart. I am finding that I have to spend more money every time I want to make a simple change. I am buying mods after mods and it is a bit sad and expensive. If only I would have known what I was buying. You would think something as simple as a product image popup would be included because after all most of us are selling products and need to show them off to the customer. Plus the cart is slow.