Nik Grey Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I know I have posted a few times about the Vector skin, and 5.2.8 but as far as I am aware the problems I have been having are with a tool I had created (as it turns out, by people who didn't really understand cubecart as such) As I can't get my head around the code I keep asking for help with things that might seem trivial to many, there's not a lot I cant do for myself but coding continues to be a pain for me. I don't understand why even though I have I the settings set for 4x 'Latest Products' to be displayed on my index page only 3x actually appear and it's messing up the overall appearance of my page ! I have had a few people comment on this issue so would like to get it sorted if possible. I notice Firebug telling me: <div id="product-53" class="span3 product"> When I inspect One of these products borders - I'm assuming (you know what they say about the 'Assumption?) that the 'span3' denotes it's width, so - my logic suggests that changing this will make these narrower and allow another product to be shown - lining my Ducks up nicely ! I tried making the overall width of the page another 50px wider but that didn't help - can we either make the padding between these boxes smaller or make the boxes themselves narrower (I would prefer to narrow the boxes if I had a choice) ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I think the span numbers indicate X/13, where the result is the width of each item. X comes from 12/count. Thus, if you want four items, 12/4 = 3, and 3/13 will give you approx 23.4% of the width -- which is the CSS property of span3. (The reason why it is not exactly 25% is to add count-1 left-margins of approx 1.23%.) So far, you have 3x23.4 + 2x1.23 = 72.66% leaving 27.34% which is enough for one more item (with left margin). So I ask this: Have you set to "Yes" four items in the inventory to be Included in Latest Products? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Grey Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 Yes, I just enabled another one to be sure and that showed up in place of a previous product. If you look at one of my category pages you can see that there are 4x products per row on an even narrower part of the page - this is what's confusing me. I have my Fusion settings set like this, which I think is correct: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 In admin, Store Settings, Layout tab, find: Show 'Latest Products' on homepage? Yes/No Number of 'Latest Products' to display: ## What number is set for ##? If four or more, then we need to look at the skin. In the Vector template file content.homepage.php, at the end, add {debug}. (Hopefully, Vector will let us do this.) When you next call the Homepage, there should be a popup listing all the variables assigned to Smarty. Look for $LATEST_PRODUCTS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Grey Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 That's done it Brian - The number WAS set to 3. It's confusing having two sets of settings - I'm sure I wont be the only one caught out by this so it's a good thing I posted even though it turned out to be something so simple. Thanks as ever Brian I wish everything was that easy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.