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Submitted by Leosch on Tue, 2022-03-22 13:57 in

Hi David,

How and where I can put content which is visible on the homepage only?

Can I add content in categories and single product pages?

Submitted by support on Wed, 2022-03-23 09:38

Hi,

To add content to the home page; for example above Featured Products; edit index.php and look for the following code at line 47:

  if (isset($featured)) require("html/featured.php");

...and REPLACE with:

?>
<div class='row'>
  <div class='small-12 columns'>
  ...home page content here...
  </div>
</div>
<?php
  if (isset($featured)) require("html/featured.php");

To add content to category pages, for example at the top of the search results for page 1 only (to avoid duplicate content issues), an easy way is to create a directory info_category containing .html files with a base name exactly matching the category names including spaces e.g.

info_category/Blue Widgets.html
info_category/Red Widgets.html

Containing, for example:

<div class='row'>
  <div class='small-12 columns'>
  ...Blue Widgets category info here...
  </div>
</div>

And then to pull the content in, edit html/searchresults.php and add the following new PHP section at the very top of the script:

<?php
  
if (($parts[0] == "category") && ($page == 1))
  {
    
$filename "info_category/".$parts[1].".html";
    if (
file_exists($filename))
    {
      require(
$filename);
    }
  }
?>

Exactly the same approach can be used for product pages using a directory e.g.info_product again containing .html files with a base name exactly matching the product name e.g.

info_product/Product Name.html

And then in html/product.php, at the point you wish to pull in the custom content use:

<?php
  $filename 
"info_product/".$product["name"].".html";
  if (
file_exists($filename))
  {
    require(
$filename);
  }
?>

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
David.
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Submitted by Leosch on Tue, 2022-04-05 12:08

David, where I have to place this code to show the content below the pagination ?

Cheers!

Submitted by support on Tue, 2022-04-05 12:48

Hi,

The code would need to go directly in search.php - look for the following code at line 586;

  require("html/footer.php");

...and REPLACE with:

  if (isset($searchresults) && ($parts[0] == "category") && ($page == 1))
  {
    $filename = "info_category/".$parts[1].".html";
    if (file_exists($filename))
    {
      require($filename);
    }
  }
  require("html/footer.php");

Cheers,
David.
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Submitted by Leosch on Wed, 2022-04-06 14:43

Hi David,

This doesn't work on a subcategory ?

{link saved}

Submitted by support on Wed, 2022-04-06 15:09

Hi,

Easiest thing to do (to keep .html files in single info_category/ sub-directory would be to create the files with underscore in place of any forward slash separators (except leading / trailing slash) so for example

example.com/category/Electronics/Home-Cinema/Projectors/

...create the file:

info_category/Electronics_Home Cinema_Projectors.html

...and then use the following alternative replacement to the above;

  if (isset($searchresults) && ($parts[0] == "category") && ($page == 1))
  {
    $filename = "info_category/".str_replace("/","_",$parts[1]).".html";
    if (file_exists($filename))
    {
      require($filename);
    }
  }
  require("html/footer.php");

Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com

Submitted by Leosch on Wed, 2022-04-06 17:31

Hi,

thanks this works only point is that I can't write content to a main category now ;)

Submitted by support on Thu, 2022-04-07 08:46

Hi,

Higher level category pages (showing the A-Z of sub-categories) is generated by categories.php and requires a slightly different modification; look for the following code at line 105:

  require("html/footer.php");

...and REPLACE with:

  $filename = "info_category/".str_replace(array("-","/"),array(" ","_"),$path).".html";
  if (file_exists($filename))
  {
    require($filename);
  }
  require("html/footer.php");

(and then the same format of info_category/ filename as for the bottom level...)

Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com

Submitted by Leosch on Thu, 2022-04-07 09:28

Hi David,

here it works:

{link saved}

maincategory not
{link saved}

I tried several higher level pages on the same way.

Submitted by support on Thu, 2022-04-07 10:23

Ah sorry about that I left in part of the code only required for the search.php mod. I've corrected the mod for categories.php above...

Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com

Submitted by Leosch on Thu, 2022-04-07 11:24

Hi David,

I changed but I think it is not possible with the dropdown menu.

Submitted by support on Thu, 2022-04-07 11:35

Hi,

You could have the menu simply link to /category/ as it would if not using Category Hierarchy, to do this edit html/menu.php and look for the following code at line 21:

        <?php if (isset($config_useCategoryHierarchy) && $config_useCategoryHierarchy): ?>

...and REPLACE with:

        <?php if (FALSE): ?>

Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com