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[carpeperdiem]

In my opinion (take that for what it's worth) I would be VERY careful here... and I would edit the templates. There aren't THAT many templates involved... maybe half a dozen?

[cflsystems]

Originally Posted by Mark Orbit

Assuming that I am following instructions correctly (and I think I am) then this method does appear to cause problems as it affects the admin area aswell...

What happens in my case is the manufacturer name is added into the 'product name' field in the admin EVERY time you make a saved edit in the admin, so I ultimately end up with 'Gibson Gibson Gibson Les Paul Guitar' after three product edits in the admin.

Ideally, I think a solution should not affect the admin or db and just be added at runtime wherever the product name is called on the front end. Any way to do this?

Thanks again for any help. I'm pretty new to XCart with a fairly big project ahead (customised) and I hope it's going to be a fairly logical process once I get the hang of these damn tpl files

Ok I didn't check to see what is affected but that's not the way to go then. So you can either change the php to export to smarty new variable with this value (that way product array won't be affected, but you still have to change the templates to reflect the new variable) or as carpeperdiem posted - change the templates only, which I think you shoud do. Sorry to mislead you like this

[ADDISON]

Steve, if you checked it and it's working please upload your file (include/func.product.php ). I will make a backup and replace with yours. My X-Cart version is 4.2.2.

Hope an expert will see this and solve the mistery

[cflsystems]

I didn't keep the changes and my version is 4.2.1
If you insist on changing php files... open xcart_root/product.php find

$smarty->assign("location", $location);

and add before

$new_product_title = $product_info['manufacturer'] . " " . $product_info['product'];
$smarty->assign("new_product_title", $new_product_title);
 

This will create a new variable and won't mess up with the product array. Then use it in product templates where you want the new title to appear

{$new_product_title}

[ADDISON]

Steve, the last solution is ok to me. Thanks for your support.

[cflsystems]

No problem

[Mark Orbit]

OK thanks for the tips. That seems an option. If you both recommend to edit the templates then I would rather do that option.

In products_list.tpl we currently have:

{$product.product|escape}

How would I change this to insert the manufacturer name beforehand. I can of course display the manufacturer ID itself by doing this:

{$product.manufacturerid} {$product.product|escape}

And the following wouldn't work!

{$product.manufacturer} {$product.product|escape}

I guess that I'm not far away? Thanks.

[carpeperdiem]

try,

{$product.manufacturerid|escape}, {$product.product|escape}

[Mark Orbit]

Originally Posted by carpeperdiem

try,

{$product.manufacturerid|escape}, {$product.product|escape}

Thanks. That's ok if I want to display the manufacturer ID (1, 2 and so on). How do I modify it to get the actual manufacturer?

[carpeperdiem]

$product.manufacturer