Hi Dave,
I am trying to create a theme based on Bootstrap 4. I am trying to show 3x3 products based on the following example:
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm">
One of three columns
</div>
<div class="col-sm">
One of three columns
</div>
<div class="col-sm">
One of three columns
</div>
</div>
</div>However, my problem is <div class="row"> must be opened before every 3 products block and </div> must be placed end of every three product block to produce proper spacing of the items.
Could you please help me out how can I achieve this?
Many thanks in advance.
Noor
Thank you! It was relatively easy to follow your example. For a front-end, statistical purposes is it possible print out number of products and number of merchant in the database? I am hoping to show them on the
html/searchform.php.
I am sure there is a variable available somewhere. Talking about Variables, I think everyone will benefit if you could publish a list of global variables that template designers can use.
Many thanks.
Noor
Hello Noor,
To display number of products and merchants;
<?php
$sql = "SELECT count(*) as numProducts FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."products`";
database_querySelect($sql,$rows);
$numProducts = $rows[0]["numProducts"];
$sql = "SELECT count(DISTINCT(merchant)) as numMerchants FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."products`";
database_querySelect($sql,$rows);
$numMerchants = $rows[0]["numMerchants"];
print "<p>Comparing ".$numProducts." from ".$numMerchants." merchants</p>";
?>
Wherever you want to see what variables are available to use within the HTML modules, print_r() can be used which will just dump the variable to the page - note that the strategy throughout the script is that the top level scripts create a variable of the same name as the HTML module, so for example at the top of html/product.php you could use;
<?php
print "<pre>";
print_r($product);
print "</pre>";
?>
...to see everything that's available for display.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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Fantastic, I knew you had this covered somewhere along. I did try print_r(); but I was getting some error I wasn't passing the top level variable.
I'll try the SQL implementation later on and I'll let you know how I get on.
UPDATE: SQL for displaying the number of product and Items works brilliantly. Thank you. Would you be able to do me one more favor? I implemented HSTS to satisfy googles SEO requirement, which involves running site using https. Now few merchants supply their product's images over non-secure HTTP port and most of then does supply over secure https.
At first, I have used your SEARCH & REPLACE filters to replace HTTP with HTTPS, obviously, that doesn't solve the problem in the first place.
While researching, I saw on one of the posts regarding a script you have created to cache the images an on the server. So I have tried that, the problem I had was, although I have managed to get it working to write the images to cache folder, for some reason, they never showed up on web pages. I have cleared the browser cache, still no luck. If I give you the FTP access to the server, would be able to troubleshoot this problem for me?
At the moment I can't quite figure out what could be the problem.
Thanks
Noor
Hello Noor,
If you'd like to email me a link to an example page where cached images are not showing i'll check it out and then by FTP if I can't spot anything from that page..
Thanks,
David.
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Hello Noor,
I assume this would be in the context of a product loop so you will have the container followed by a foreach() loop within which the row class needs to be opened and closed every 3 products...
You can do this by including the index variable - $k in this example - in the foreach statement, and then use the % operator (modulus) in an IF condition to create a block that will execute every 3 items within which you can place the close / open divs - for example;
<div class='container'><?php foreach($searchresults["products"] as $k => $product): ?>
<?php
if (!($k % 3))
{
if ($k) print "</div>";
print "<div class='row'>";
}
?>
<div class="col-sm">
<!-- product info here -->
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</div>
Note how the closing div is output using
if (!$k)so that it won't output on the first iteration when $k is zero...Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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