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[mffowler]

Sure! Simply, you can just create a folder called "brands" (in skin1/images) of images named after the manufacturers and link to them by name:

<A href="manufacturers.php?manufacturerid={$product.manufacturerid}" title="">[img]{$ImagesDir}/brands/{$product.manufacturer|replace:' ':''}.gif[/img]
</a>

If there is a space in a brand name, like "British Telecom" just name the image BritishTelecom and the space will be replaced in the call for it without a space. My code also links to the brand page and this works on the product.tpl page (I tested it).

In the future, icons won't be in the DB at all as newer versions are much improved and we only need stability to migrate.

- Mike

[Davidh]

Thanks alot :P

[xcell67]

Hi,

Can someone post the code for 4.1.1?

{* $Id: customer_manufacturers_list.tpl,v 1.6 2005/11/21 12:42:10 max Exp $ *}
<font class=big>{$lng.lbl_manufacturers}</font>

{ include file="customer/main/navigation.tpl" }


<table cellspacing="5">
{foreach from=$manufacturers item=v}
<tr>
	<td class="ManufacturersItem"><font class="ItemsList">{$v.manufacturer|escape}</font></td>
</tr>
{/foreach}
</table>



{ include file="customer/main/navigation.tpl" }

[fearnothing]

This is a mod well worth implementing, and the code to use files instead of the database for image thumbnail generation reduces the load on the server quite significantly.

One thing I found in putting the files mod in place was that the code provided works great for product.tpl but wouldn't run for me in customer_manufacturers_list.tpl

This is the code I used to display files instead of drawing from the database using that template:

[img]location of your files/{$manufacturers_menu[mid].manufacturer|replace:' ':''}.jpg[/img]

Hope this helps.

Anybody have any suggestions on pagination of the Manufacturers list? At the minute it just produces a single long-ass list. I've just amended my version to split into 4 columns, but it's still a lengthy old list:

http://www.smartchoicemusic.com/store/manufacturers.php

[weckie]

Here's te code for 4.1.2. Works well.

 
{capture name=dialog} 
{assign var="tmp" value="0"} 
{section name=mid loop=$manufacturers} 
{if $manufacturers[mid].manufacturerid}{assign var="tmp" value="1"}{/if} 
{/section} 

{section name=mid loop=$manufacturers} 
{ if %mid.first% } 
<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> 
{/if} 
{ if %mid.index% is div by 3} 
<tr> 
{/if} 
<td align="center" valign="middle"> 
      <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td height="70"> 
[img]image.php?id={$manufacturers[mid].manufacturerid}&type=M[/img]</td></tr> 
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"> 
 <font class="ItemsList">{$manufacturers[mid].manufacturer}</font></td></tr></table>

 
</td> 
{ if %mid.last% } 
</tr> 
</table> 
{/if} 
{/section} 
{/capture} 
{include file="dialog.tpl" title=$lng.lbl_manufacturers content=$smarty.capture.dialog extra='width="100%"'}

It is in three column, if you want more, just change

{ if %mid.index% is div by 3} 

[stuartn]

I need a little direction where to find the code for the manufacturers link, so that I can change it to open in a blank window rather than taking the customer out of the site....any clues on which template it is...thanks in advance for any help.

[laurieblake]

[quote=mffowler]Sure! Simply, you can just create a folder called "brands" (in skin1/images) of images named after the manufacturers and link to them by name:

<A href="manufacturers.php?manufacturerid={$product.manufacturerid}" title="">[img]{$ImagesDir}/brands/{$product.manufacturer|replace:' ':''}.gif[/img]
</a>

Excelent post Mike. I am using it but struck and issue with the Crystal Blue Skin Addon. It seems our friend RRF has changed the code for images from what you have done to
<IMG src="{$ImagesDir}/blahblah.gif">. I was just getting the text [img]Blah[/img] instead of the image.
All good now. Thank you.

Laurie

[Jenm]

Version 4.1.3 looks nothing like these. Anyone know the code for that?

[NightFire]

The IMG codes didn't work for me. So I modified the original code a little bit and adjusted the fonts etc to the standards of x-cart. I'm using 2 collums. Here's my code. The file system image code is not included:

{* $Id: customer_manufacturers_list.tpl,v 1.3 2004/05/28 12:21:10 max Exp $ *}

{capture name=dialog}
{assign var="tmp" value="0"}
{section name=mid loop=$manufacturers}
{if $manufacturers[mid].manufacturerid}{assign var="tmp" value="1"}{/if}
{/section}

{section name=mid loop=$manufacturers}
{ if %mid.first% }
<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
{/if}
{ if %mid.index% is div by 2}
<tr>
{/if}
<td align="center" valign="middle">
      <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td height="70">
<A href="manufacturers.php?manufacturerid={$manufacturers[mid].manufacturerid}">      
<img border="0" src="mlogo.php?manufacturerid={$manufacturers[mid].manufacturerid}"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle">
<A href="manufacturers.php?manufacturerid={$manufacturers[mid].manufacturerid}"><FONT class="ItemsList">{$manufacturers[mid].manufacturer}</FONT></a></td></tr></table>


</td>
{ if %mid.last% }
</tr>
</table>
{/if}
{/section}
{/capture}
{include file="dialog.tpl" title=$lng.lbl_manufacturers content=$smarty.capture.dialog extra="width=100%"}<p>

[Jenm]

Thank you NightFire! Works great! Does exactly what I wanted it to do. Now if I can only get the images in there!!! If anyone can shed some light on that I'd appreciate that too.

If anyone wants to see what it is, go to: http://www.handcraftedworks.com/shop/manufacturers.php

If the images are there, I figured it out (or someone else told me how to!)

Thanks again NightFire!