Change Home Page Colulmns

[Guest]

I would like to change the legend skin homepage so that it shows 3 columns of products instead of 2.

How can I go about doing this.

Thanks,

Dbrhet

[roban]

When you say "3 columns" are you referring to the Latest Products?

If so, use the following hack:

In the includes/content/index.inc.php find this line:

for($i=0;$i<count($latestProducts);$i++){

Replace with this code

$across=4;

$index->assign("TW",100/$across);

for($i=0;$i<count($latestProducts);$i++){

if (!(($i+1) % $across)) {

$index->assign("TXT_TR","</tr><tr>");

} else {

$index->assign("TXT_TR","");

}

in skins/{insert skin name}/styleTemplates/content/index.tpl replace all code

between

<!-- BEGIN: repeat_prods -->

and

CODE

<!-- END: repeat_prods -->

including those two lines above with this code

CODE

<table width="100%" border="0"><tr>

<!-- BEGIN: repeat_prods -->

<td width="{TW}%">

<div style="float: center; text-align: center;">

<a href="index.php?act=viewProd&productId={VAL_PRODUCT_ID}"><img src="{VAL_IMG_SRC}" alt="{VAL_PRODUCT_NAME}" border="0" /></a>

<br />

<a href="index.php?act=viewProd&productId={VAL_PRODUCT_ID}" class="txtDefault">{VAL_PRODUCT_NAME}</a>

<br />

{TXT_PRICE} <span class="txtSale">{TXT_SALE_PRICE}</span>

</div>

</td>

{TXT_TR}

<!-- END: repeat_prods -->

</tr></table>

The $across variable is used to specify number products across.

[Guest]

Thanks,

It works perfectly.

dbrhett

I was also wondering if it would be possible to put several products and their descriptions on the index page instead of just the images of the 'latest products'

Thanks

Dbrhett

[roban]

Thanks,

It works perfectly.

dbrhett

I was also wondering if it would be possible to put several products and their descriptions on the index page instead of just the images of the 'latest products'

Thanks

Dbrhett

Is there a reason not to do that through your homepage editor?

[Guest]

Roban,

How could I call up the brief pictures and descriptions of my choice such as are found in the category listings?

dbrhett

[roban]

Why would you call them? If you are looking to edit the products in your Latest Products box there is a mod to do this at cubecart.org. If you simply want to add product images and descriptions in your home page box you can do it by creating a table with as many columns and rows as necessary and add your images and descriptions. Other than that I know of no way to 'call' the products. Perhaps someone else would know.

[Guest americanrandr]

Is there a way to display the products in the latest products window without the description. Just display the images?