Hi David,
Hope all is going well.
Quite a while back you helped me modify the featured products sections on my site. It’s been working well since but I would now like to add an additional ‘filter’ to the featured sections so that I can optionally filter by merchant. I wondered if you might be able to suggest what I would need to add to tfeaturedproducts.php to include merchant.
The current code is:
{code saved}
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Chris
Hi David,
Thanks for the quick response. I made the modifications above but they do not appear to work. I disabled all the lines in the calling code except for the new one I added below:
$featuredproducts_dbmerchant = "spartoo";
The result seems to be a random group of products from all merchants. A random group also appears when I disable the above line.
Wondered if you might be able to suggest what could be going wrong and how I might resolve it.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Chris
Hi Chris,
As the code stands, if $featuredproducts_category is not set you should be getting 8 random products based on the value of $featuredproducts_gender. If that too is empty you should be getting 8 random products that have no value in the gender field. If you wanted to add the same for a merchant, e.g. 8 random products for the specified merchant then where you currently have the following code beginning at line 4:
if ($featuredproducts_category)
{
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."featured` WHERE name LIKE '".$featuredproducts_category."/%' ORDER BY sequence";
}...REPLACE with:
if ($featuredproducts_category)
{
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."featured` WHERE name LIKE '".$featuredproducts_category."/%' ORDER BY sequence";
}
elseif ($featuredproducts_dbmerchant)
{
$sql = "SELECT name,1 AS sequence FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."products` WHERE merchant='".database_safe($featuredproducts_dbmerchant)."' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 8";
}Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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Hi David,
Thanks for your message and the mod. I made the change (I assume the latest mod is in addition to the first one?) and set the code in index.php to:
print "NIKE";
$featuredproducts_dbmerchant = "Marks and Spencer";
//$featuredproducts_category = "NIKE";
//$featuredproducts_gender = "BOYS";
//$featuredproducts_dbcategory = "22";
require("featuredproducts.php");
What I had expected to see in the above instance is just 8 random products for that merchant but what I get is 8 random products from all merchants. I also tried:
print "NIKE";
$featuredproducts_dbmerchant = "Marks and Spencer";
//$featuredproducts_category = "NIKE";
$featuredproducts_gender = "BOYS";
//$featuredproducts_dbcategory = "22";
require("featuredproducts.php");
The results reflect the $featuredproducts_gender setting but still not the merchant?
I have taken the merchant name from the merchant column is the pt_products table..I assume this is correct? I also tried a different merchant but got the same result.
The featured settings seem to just ignore the new $featuredproducts_dbmerchant setting.
I wondered if you might have any suggestions why this might be happening.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Chris
Hi Chris,
That's strange - could you post the full script again as you have it now, I can check it out in the context of the calling code you posted above...
Thanks,
David.
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Thanks David, I've just e-mailed the file and also index.php.
Best regards
Chris
Hi Chris,
Sure - in the code you posted, where you have the following code beginning at line 63:
if ($featuredproducts_dbcategory){
$where .= " AND categoryid='".database_safe($featuredproducts_dbcategory)."'";
}
...REPLACE with:
if ($featuredproducts_dbcategory){
$where .= " AND categoryid='".database_safe($featuredproducts_dbcategory)."'";
}
if ($featuredproducts_dbmerchant)
{
$where .= " AND merchant='".database_safe($featuredproducts_dbmerchant)."'";
}
And at (now) line 104:
$featuredproducts_dbcategory = "";...REPLACE with:
$featuredproducts_dbcategory = "";$featuredproducts_dbmerchant = "";
And then in your calling code, set $featuredproducts_dbmerchant as required e.g.
$featuredproducts_dbmerchant = "Merchant Name";Cheers,
David.
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