Featured Products Phoenix Cart

[raiwa]

That’s it. I’m developing under PHP 7.4. Thanks for pointing that out.

[raiwa]

Updated to Version 2.2.4 with the above fixes

https://www.oscaddons.com/en/free-add-o ... -p-76.html
https://www.oscaddons.com/download_free ... v2.2.4.zip

Changes version 2.2.4.:
- Fixed error for PHP versions lower than 7.3.

[raiwa]

Updated Version 2.2.4 with the above fix also applied to admin/featured.php

To update just replace this file.

https://www.oscaddons.com/en/free-add-o ... -p-76.html
https://www.oscaddons.com/download_free ... v2.2.4.zip

Changes version 2.2.4.:
- Fixed error for PHP versions lower than 7.3.

[ThatSweetShop]

Can I use this feature as a showcase products made for clients? What I mean is to have these items only show in featured and not shown with any other products?

[raiwa]

Hi @ThatSweetShop ,

Yes, sure you can use it as showcase, but if you do not wish to show these products in other places, you'll need to do some trick.
You could for example place these products in the root category (outside any category) so they would not show in the normal categories listings-
But they would still show in the new products page and modules. For to hide them also there you would need to tweak the coding and add an additional flag (category not 0) which needs to be added to the product queries to hide them in all other places except the featured modules.

Another maybe easier way could be to use products with status = off as featured products and modify the query in the featured products modules to show products with status = off (false). On that way they would show only in the featured modules.

Easier is to remove the price, You just need to comment out or remove the price output in the template files.

Hope this helps
Rainer

[ThatSweetShop]

Hi @ThatSweetShop ,

Yes, sure you can use it as showcase, but if you do not wish to show these products in other places, you'll need to do some trick.
You could for example place these products in the root category (outside any category) so they would not show in the normal categories listings-
But they would still show in the new products page and modules. For to hide them also there you would need to tweak the coding and add an additional flag (category not 0) which needs to be added to the product queries to hide them in all other places except the featured modules.

Another maybe easier way could be to use products with status = off as featured products and modify the query in the featured products modules to show products with status = off (false). On that way they would show only in the featured modules.

Easier is to remove the price, You just need to comment out or remove the price output in the template files.

Hope this helps
Rainer

Cheers for your suggestions, but I'm a single mum trying to get my family through the pandemic and all this is way over my head. My hubby hasn't a clue about this stuff. When you say switch product off, do you mean make the red and grey buttons next to products in admin? I like your first idea leaving out of any category but how will a not tech savy lady like me sort that is my worry now.

[raiwa]

When you say switch product off, do you mean make the red and grey buttons next to products in admin?

Yes

he easy solution (no.2 suggestion) is fine it'll do the trick but how will a not tch savy lady like me sort that is my worry now

In the main queries of the featured modules, just remove "p.products_status = '1 AND'":
so the relevant lines would change from:

Code: Select all

      ON p.products_id = f.products_id
  WHERE p.products_status = '1' 
    AND f.status = '1' 

to:

Code: Select all

      ON p.products_id = f.products_id
  WHERE f.status = '1' 

If you are not familiar with doing code modifications yourself, you can pay a developer (me or one of the other certified developers) to do it for you.

regards
Rainer

[ThatSweetShop]

When you say switch product off, do you mean make the red and grey buttons next to products in admin?

Yes

he easy solution (no.2 suggestion) is fine it'll do the trick but how will a not tch savy lady like me sort that is my worry now

In the main queries of the featured modules, just remove "p.products_status = '1 AND'":
so the relevant lines would change from:

Code: Select all

      ON p.products_id = f.products_id
  WHERE p.products_status = '1' 
    AND f.status = '1' 

to:

Code: Select all

      ON p.products_id = f.products_id
  WHERE f.status = '1' 

If you are not familiar with doing code modifications yourself, you can pay a developer (me or one of the other certified developers) to do it for you.

regards
Rainer

My son just did that and it works partly. He changed those lines you said to. The product shows only in featured but when you click to look at product, a message says product not found. So, he switched product back on and it shows when clicked this time. But it is now also showing also with other products. Pardon my errors, not very good at this

[raiwa]

The product shows only in featured but when you click to look at product, a message says product not found

Yes, that's how it works with this mod. Switched off products are not available and do not show in all other places including the proper product page.
If you wants to show it, then you would have to modify the query for the product page (which would also allow to show there any other "switched off" product
Or if (and this is what I understood) you wish to show these products only in the featured product modules, remove the link to the product page in the featured module templates.

If this is not what you need, then you have to use my first suggestion and tweak more code which goes over the possibilities to explain in this support thread.

[ThatSweetShop]

The product shows only in featured but when you click to look at product, a message says product not found

Yes, that's how it works with this mod. Switched off products are not available and do not show in all other places including the proper product page.
If you wants to show it, then you would have to modify the query for the product page (which would also allow to show there any other "switched off" product
Or if (and this is what I understood) you wish to show these products only in the featured product modules, remove the link to the product page in the featured module templates.

If this is not what you need, then you have to use my first suggestion and tweak more code which goes over the possibilities to explain in this support thread.

Thank you, It is what I needed except you can't click it so see bigger image. I believe your first suggestion will probably work better. How do I go about getting someone to do this?