Controlling products shown for v3 "Featured Products" content

[Beery_Asst]

I've been going through the 3.0.0 files. If I add the content navigation box for "Featured Products", the box adds and it contains a list of products.

What button/option/selection controls what products are listed as a "Featured Product"?

I could find no setting in the product records, no category, etc., not even a php referenced file in the navigation block for the content record.

Beery

[Jamie]

I split your post into a new thread as it wasn't directly related to the thread it was in.

By default, the Featured Products Content record shows products from the category containing the most products. If you click the "Source" button for the content field on that Content record, you'll find this by default:

[php <?php print sc_featured_products_content(); ?> /]

If you want to specify what category to use, pass a category record number as the first parameter:

[php <?php print sc_featured_products_content(85); ?> /]

If you also want to control the number of products that are shown, pass that number as the 2nd parameter:

[php <?php print sc_featured_products_content(85,8); ?> /]

[Beery_Asst]

Thanks Jamie. That did the trick. I just created a "Featured Products" category not set to display and put what I wanted into it. Works great.

Now, I need to start thumbing through the documentation to see if there are notes on these routines, etc.

Beery

[designwerks]

Jamie, did everything per your instructions above - and works great. I'd like to take it to the next level...

Can you add some code (based on the above instructions) to display the thumbnail image of what I am currently seeing in the featured product area. The "normal" image takes up too much space...

Thanks

[Jamie]

You should be able to do that by changing $Image to $Thumbnail_Image on line #12 of the featured_product.tpl.php template file. Change this:

<img src="<?php print $Image['dyn'] ?>" width="<?php print $Image['width'] ?>" height="<?php print $Image['height'] ?>" alt="<?php print $Image['alt'] ?>" />

to this:

<img src="<?php print $Thumbnail_Image['dyn'] ?>" width="<?php print $Thumbnail_Image['width'] ?>" height="<?php print $Thumbnail_Image['height'] ?>" alt="<?php print $Thumbnail_Image['alt'] ?>" />

[designwerks]

Thanks Jamie, your instructions worked great!