[Resolved] Text separating products

[njohn]

Can you have text among products list eg:

products

Text

products

[bsmither]

Of course.
 With enough time and ingenuity, America put a man on the Moon. With just a wee bit more, we can put a man on the Sun. (Hee!)

Will this be in the Latest Products, or a Category (includes Search and Saleitems) list?

Either way, CubeCart loads a variable with an array of products to list.
{foreach from=$PRODUCTS item=product}
Then iterates through them.

To have some sort of interstitial, we need to deal with "list mode" and "grid mode".

A grid has three-across, so we can't interrupt the iteration at any arbitrary point.

Smarty has a loop counter. For example:

{foreach from=$PRODUCTS item=product}
  {if $product@iteration is div by 3}
<!-- Stop the list -->
</ul>
<p>Text break</p>
<!-- Resume the list
(be sure to include the attributes
of the previous <ul> tag -->
<ul>
  {/if}
<li>Product Panel:{$product}</li>
{/foreach}

There is slightly more to consider since Foundation uses its "block-grid" feature.

[njohn]

I mean on the Category Page - Creating sub-categories, or whatever

[Dirty Butter]

I'm having trouble imagining what you have in mind. Could you give a more concrete example of what you want?

[njohn]

On category page display:

Products

Some Text

Products

I don't think it's doable - but perhaps someone knows how

[bsmither]

The code in my previous reply will do it.

[njohn]

Thank you b,

Where do I find smarty?

I've in & out all day. Will test it prob tomorrow and report results 

[Dirty Butter]

The loop counter code Bsmither has in his code IS Smarty code, evidently.

[njohn]

Just can't make it work right - not a BIG thing anyway. Just one cat involved and it's really OK the way it is.

Mark Resolved.

[bsmither]

Work right? Or not work at all?

 

[njohn]

Not at all. I pasted the html in the Cat Description and it just displayed the pasted text

[bsmither]

I understood you wanted interstitial text. The admin, Category, Add/Edit Category, Description tab, Content Editor box is not where this would go.

On a storefront View Category page, you wanted this:

Category Name
Category Description
List of Sub-cats
Sorter (and Pagination)
Product1
Product2
Product3

Interstitial Text (maybe an advert?)

Product4
Product5
Product6
etc.

 

[njohn]

AhhhSo - I'll try it

[njohn]

4 hours ago, bsmither said:

On a storefront View Category page

Where is it?

[bsmither]

In the skin template file content.category.php, find near line 65 (for Foundation):

<div id="ccScroll">
   <ul class="small-block-grid-1 product_list" data-equalizer>
      {foreach from=$PRODUCTS item=product}
      <li>

Change to:
<div id="ccScroll">
   <ul class="small-block-grid-1 product_list" data-equalizer>
      {foreach from=$PRODUCTS item=product}

{if $product@iteration is div by 3}
<!-- Stop the list -->
</ul>
<p>Text break</p>
<!-- Resume the list
(be sure to include the attributes
of the previous <ul> tag -->
<ul class="small-block-grid-1 product_list" data-equalizer>
{/if}

      <li>

Have your browser ask for a category page from the storefront. You should now see Text break every so often in the list.

We can adjust the test that determines when and where the interstitial happens.

[njohn]

It absolutely WORKS!

Thanks AGAIN

"We can adjust the test that determines when and where the interstitial happens."

You like this  Unlike this

• Yes it happens in ALL cats. I only want it to happen in 1 cat.

[bsmither]

You would need to know the category ID of the one category you want this to happen with. For example, when the cat_id is 5.

{if $category.cat_id == 5 && $product@iteration is div by 3}

 

Edited April 8, 2016 by bsmither
Stupid syntax error

[njohn]

That's logical, and quite simple.

 

Mark this [SOLVED]

[Dirty Butter]

Fantastic! I would like to see this in action, if you don't mind providing a link, @njohn

[njohn]

I set up a mirror of the site 2 weeks or so back and I use it for tweaking (to avoid disasters). A LOT has happened to the actual site since then

The url (I set it up on a FREE but very good host, x10 hosting) is: http://misc.x10host.com/shop   the category affected is Mix-Fix Cooking Goodies

 

[Dirty Butter]

Very attractive, and I thoroughly enjoyed looking around your store, too. I did notice that the soda can airplanes were extremely light weight - surprised me, as I would expect them to be shipped in a sturdy box with bubble wrap. And the pralines made my mouth water!!

[njohn]

Yeah, the store owner liked it so much he said put it everywhere sooo: http://natchezshop.com/shop . Originally we were thinking about inserting comments about the people who make that product and I only put that image on the test site to see if an image would work.

The airplane weight was corrected already on the production site