Featured Products Question

hoosierglass · #1 10-25-2007, 06:04 PM

Is there a way to turn off featured products from showing up on the main page and the categories page when there are no items that are added to the featured products?

I want to do this without commenting it out of the home.tpl if possible. If not then I guess I will comment it out.

pauldodman · #2 10-26-2007, 01:21 AM

If you have no featured products in admin, then by default nothing is going to show up anyway.
If you don't have any featured products, what are you getting to show up???

hoosierglass · #3 10-26-2007, 03:19 AM

The featured products menu with menu box title and contents of "There are no featured products."

chamberinternet · #4 10-26-2007, 03:45 AM

The message is displayed via the language variable {$lng.txt_no_featured}

If you just comment that message out from featured.tpl... then it wont be shown.

This way featured products will be displayed if you have products assigned, else no message will be displayed.

Regards

Shafiq :sK

hoosierglass · #5 10-26-2007, 03:58 AM

What I am trying to do is not even show the featured items menu box. I didn't know if there is a way to shut it down without commenting it out of the home.tpl file. Like best sellers can be turned on or off, I just wanted to know if featured items menu can be turned on and off.

chamberinternet · #6 10-26-2007, 03:59 AM

Well it's not a module like bestsellers, so i guess you can only comment it from the code.

Unless someone here has a better idea ?

chamberinternet · #7 10-26-2007, 04:02 AM

Thinking about it now .. It might be worth the guys @ XC to convert it as a module in a future release, so it can be enabled/disabled easily

Comments ?

Shafiq :sK

balinor · #8 10-26-2007, 04:11 AM

You just need to move the {if} statement around a little:

Replace this:

Code:

{capture name=dialog}
{if $f_products ne ""}
{if $total_pages gt 2}
<br />
{ include file="customer/main/navigation.tpl" }
{/if}
{include file="customer/main/products.tpl" products=$f_products featured="Y"}
{if $total_pages gt 2}
<br />
{ include file="customer/main/navigation.tpl" }
{/if}
{else}
{$lng.txt_no_featured}
{/if}
{/capture}
{include file="dialog.tpl" title=$lng.lbl_featured_products content=$smarty.capture.dialog extra='width="100%"'}

with this:

Code:

{if $f_products ne ""}
{capture name=dialog}
{if $total_pages gt 2}
<br />
{ include file="customer/main/navigation.tpl" }
{/if}
{include file="customer/main/products.tpl" products=$f_products featured="Y"}
{if $total_pages gt 2}
<br />
{ include file="customer/main/navigation.tpl" }
{/if}
{else}
{$lng.txt_no_featured}

{/capture}
{include file="dialog.tpl" title=$lng.lbl_featured_products content=$smarty.capture.dialog extra='width="100%"'}
{/if}

hoosierglass · #9 10-26-2007, 07:55 AM

That was quite an interesting effect Balinor!

That put the featured items menu above the head template and in the center main of home where featured products go it just gave the text label for no featured products.

I do appreciate the effort though.

balinor · #10 10-26-2007, 08:13 AM

Huh? Just meant update customer/main/featured.tpl, not moving things above the head template!