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[Warwick]

Is there anybody out there who has the 'Speed bar Plus' mod from cartmods.com installed and working on X-Cart 4.1.x?

I'm really interested in such a feature but am not sure about the mod's possibilities and about cartmods.com as a company having read some disturbing posts about them in these forums

Any feedback is appreciated!

[balinor]

Moving to Third Party Add-Ons. I would advise you to avoid Cartmods at all costs.

[Warwick]

Originally Posted by balinor

Moving to Third Party Add-Ons. I would advise you to avoid Cartmods at all costs.

Roger that, any alternatives that come in mind about a mod that expands the speed bars features?

[zardos]

Hi Warwick

Try Philj he has a speed bar mod.

http://www.xcartmods.co.uk/

[Warwick]

Thanks for the excellent suggestion zardos!

I'll investigate.

[KCAutosound]

I will step in and give a thumbs up for Cart-Mods. They have done quite a few custom modifications to my website and got me taken care of quickly. Sam has been great to work with.

[carpeperdiem]

I bought PhilJ's "advanced speedbar" when he was selling it (I think it's free now?) and it is everything you could want for speedbar.

It basically works in 2 parts -- some links are static, some are dynamic, and the css file is very clear and easy to edit.

[Warwick]

Thanks carpeperdiem, meanwhile I have implemented it and it works great; only problem I have is that I can't seem to get it centered; do you have any experience with this regarding the speed bar plus?

At your site it is also aligned to the left.

[big pine kenny]

I have tried Philj adv speed bar but I can't figure out how to change items on the tabs The instructions aren't for dummies. I have the speed bar where I want it but it has 2 home tabs and doubles on a few tabs.

[carpeperdiem]

Ok, Advanced Speedbar for Dummies:

This line:

<li {if $main eq "catalog" && $current_category.category eq ""}id="current"{/if}><a href="home.php" title="Home"><span>Home</span></a></li>

is hard coded for "home"

This line:

{if $login eq ""}
<li {if $main eq "register"}id="current"{/if}><a href="register.php" title="{$lng.lbl_register}"><span>{$lng.lbl_register}</span></a></li>
{/if}

is hard coded to register

This line:

<li {if $main eq "cart" && $smarty.get.mode ne "checkout"}id="current"{/if}><a href="cart.php" title="{$lng.lbl_view_cart}"><span>{$lng.lbl_view_cart}</span></a></li>

is hard coded to view cart

This line:

<li {if $smarty.get.mode eq "checkout"}id="current"{/if}><a href="cart.php?mode=checkout" title="{$lng.lbl_checkout}"><span>{$lng.lbl_checkout}</span></a></li>

Is hard coded to "checkout"

Now here comes the good stuff:

{section name=sb loop=$speed_bar}
{if $speed_bar[sb].active eq "Y"}
<li {if $speed_bar[sb].orderby eq $page_data.orderby}id="current"{/if}>
<a href="{$speed_bar[sb].link}" title="{$speed_bar[sb].title}"><span>{$speed_bar[sb].title}</span></a></li>
{/if}
{/section}

This parses the static embedded pages you defined in "speedbar" section of admin.

The reason my speedbar is in the left, is that my CSS tells it to go there (actually, it doesn't tell it to go right, so it doesn't).

In head.tpl

<tr class="HeadLine" ><td>{ include file="speedbar/speedbar.tpl" }</td>

In skin1.css

.HeadLine { padding: 0px; background: #C4E9EB; color: #fff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px }

If you are using a stock install, you need to do some fishing/hunting/webmaster mode, and find out where the old speedbar lives, and make it go away.

It may be in top_menu.tpl -- and it uses way too much code to make the tabs...

Remember, the {section} loop parses the embedded pages from speedbar in the admin. It's not complicated once you get your head around it.

If you want, post your speedbar.tpl, and I'll try to slice it up for you.

Jeremy