X-Cart forums

[thatcrazyartguy]

This is a great mod. One issue I'm having is the load time. 32 seconds for a manufacturer page to load now. I have about 30,000 products loaded, so I could see how this would take awhile to query the database.

I realize that Smarty has built in caching capabilities, however I must be inserting them incorrectly.

This is the code I believe would be used, but I'm not sure where to enter it:

<?php
require('Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty;

$smarty->setCaching(Smarty::CACHING_LIFETIME_CURRENT);

$my_cache_id = $_GET['manufacturerid'];

$smarty->display('manufacturer_categories.tpl', $my_cache_id);
?>

[thatcrazyartguy]

Can anyone help with caching of manufacturer categories? 32 seconds to load seems a bit much. Am I the only one seeing this kind of performance?

Has anyone successfully included the manufacturer products? I see many others were trying.

[thatcrazyartguy]

Need someone to pull a Jesus-move and raise this thread from the dead for me. Should it be taking 30 seconds to load a page while this mod is in place?

[KCAutosound]

Anyone tried this on 4.4.4? I'm only getting "There are no available products under this manufacturer." Unless I've done something wrong

[Shooter]

Originally Posted by groovico

OOOooo nice mod! I just had a client complaining about the way x-cart lists everything by the manufacturer in one big mixed up list, the option for it breaking up in categories is brilliant nice one bcse!

Yeah, the best part is that is it free and "Works" .. vs registered and non functional or w/o support. (wink)

[BCSE]

Originally Posted by KCAutosound

Anyone tried this on 4.4.4? I'm only getting "There are no available products under this manufacturer." Unless I've done something wrong

If you can't figure it out, drop us an email to support and let us know. X-cart changed a good bit between 4.3.x and 4.4.x (particularly with categories), so it may need to be updated. Just let the support people know I said we'd update it for you.

Thanks,

Carrie

[wyzerus]

Originally Posted by BCSE

If you can't figure it out, drop us an email to support and let us know. X-cart changed a good bit between 4.3.x and 4.4.x (particularly with categories), so it may need to be updated. Just let the support people know I said we'd update it for you.

Thanks,

Carrie

Hi,Carrie

I need a little help with this great free mod.

I think its works fine i just want to remove the double links i get for both cat/sub-cat

I just want to see the categories and not the manufacturers name above every different cat. I hope this makes sense.. you can view the site im working on here
https://www.spares4mowers.co.uk/Honda/
For every category i get Honda above it. I think its probably real easy to lose it but im a x-cart virgin and need some advice.

Thank you in advance
Elton

[BCSE]

Originally Posted by wyzerus

Hi,Carrie

I need a little help with this great free mod.

I think its works fine i just want to remove the double links i get for both cat/sub-cat

I just want to see the categories and not the manufacturers name above every different cat. I hope this makes sense.. you can view the site im working on here
https://www.spares4mowers.co.uk/Honda/
For every category i get Honda above it. I think its probably real easy to lose it but im a x-cart virgin and need some advice.

Thank you in advance
Elton

You'd want to edit the template for the manufacturer mod to not show it. The problem is it uses the same template to display this page:
https://www.spares4mowers.co.uk/Honda/
as well as this page:
https://www.spares4mowers.co.uk/Honda/?catid=249

So some logic would need to be in there to display the image above the one and not the other as I'm assuming you'd want the image on the first page.

You could probably do:
{if $smarty.get.catid eq ''}
Show image
{/if}

I hope that helps.

Thanks,

Carrie

[wyzerus]

Originally Posted by BCSE

You'd want to edit the template for the manufacturer mod to not show it. The problem is it uses the same template to display this page:
https://www.spares4mowers.co.uk/Honda/
as well as this page:
https://www.spares4mowers.co.uk/Honda/?catid=249

So some logic would need to be in there to display the image above the one and not the other as I'm assuming you'd want the image on the first page.

You could probably do:
{if $smarty.get.catid eq ''}
Show image
{/if}

I hope that helps.

Thanks,

Carrie

Hi, Carrie
Im not sure i explained myself properly, Sorry.

When i click on a manufacturer i get the list of categories as seen on my site https://www.spares4mowers.co.uk/Honda/

I want to lose the links in red

e.g.
Narrow your search
Categories to choose from
Honda, Blades, Honda, Filters,

is there an easy way to do this?

Regards
Elton

[BCSE]

Hi Elton,

I see what you mean now. I think there would have to be some custom code done to remove those. Because they are actual categories the products live in, so the code sees those categories and displays them. It doesn't know they look redundant because they are the same name as the manufacturer.

If you'd like to drop us an email to support with what you'd like it to do instead we could quote customizing that for you.

Thanks,

Carrie