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[leon]

Its great to have Bestsellers in different categories (depending on their category), but it would be nice to have them also on all other pages and not only home.

Bestsellers is an eyecathing sales pitch, and currently they do not show up when on Product Details, Help, Specials, Cart, register and additional Static pages.

I would suggest the Bestsellers to pick up as shown on the HOME page to all previously mentioned pages as well.

[DataViking]

I agree 100%

[leon]

Ok, I also found out how to get this done.

Just add this code:

if($active_modules["Bestsellers"]) 
   include "../modules/Bestsellers/bestsellers.php"; 

right after require "./auth.php";, on all scripts for pages you want them to appear on.

Some pages to consider inserting this code (all under /customer directory):
- cart.php
- register.php
- help.php
- giftcert.php
- product.php
- error_message.php
- pages.php
- download.php
- search.php

[adpboss]

Excellent post. Bump to move to Custom Mods please.

[pmstudios]

I've wanted to do this too and it seems to work well by adding the following at the bottom of auth.php

if($active_modules["Bestsellers"])
   @include_once "../modules/Bestsellers/bestsellers.php";

I actually haven't had any success with it showing up while browsing categories though, and it didn't make a difference by adding the include to every file.

edit: This should have been obvious before, but I just realized it works only if there's ordered products within the categories you're browsing.

[phwuser]

Leon,

I've tried what you did but it does not work for me. I cannot even display "Bestsellers." I am also using the same version as you are. I purchased another cart from x-cart and it was 4.0.1. But, it did not display as well.

Patricia

[jeeya]

have you checked in modules section if best sellers option is enabled.

[leon]

raxitpatel is right, if you dont even have bestsellers appearing, its because you havent enabled the module yet, try that.

[BCSE]

I've done something similar on my site and have taken it a bit further. What I've done is if there are no best sellers available for that category, then I select the overall store bestsellers. That way your store look is uniform no matter what page you're on.

Just add this to modules/Bestsellers/bestsellers.php:

# BCSE
if(empty($bestsellers))
{
$threshold = 0;
	$search_query = "$sql_tbl[products].forsale='Y' and $sql_tbl[products].avail>0 and $sql_tbl[products].sales_stats > $threshold AND $sql_tbl[categories].avail='Y' and price>0 group by $sql_tbl[products].productid order by sales_stats DESC, views_stats DESC limit ".$config["Modules"]["number_of_bestsellers"];
	$bestsellers = func_search_products($search_query, !empty($user_account['membership'])?$user_account['membership']:"");
}
# BCSE

Before:

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

I did this for 3.5.x

Carrie

[rjcbear]

Carrie,

What file do we need to edit.

Kind regards,
Ricky