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circleofatlantis · Jun 11, 2007

I'm running an xcart shopping cart system and want to add an extra feature to it.

It should be fairly simple, but the xcart people want to charge a lot for it.

If I have an example of the code I need, I can do it myself.

The cart page is divided into left, center and right areas. The left area holds boxes of links. The center holds the main displays. I'm not using the right.

In the left, I want to hardcode a bit of text with a link embedded, that when clicked, displays an external webpage in the center section. I have some code for doing the actual display, but I dont know how to get it listed on the left side so it will click activate.

It is tpl pages, called from php. I dont need any php, just the code I need to add into the tpl. This will include some code for the tpl file that holds the layout, and a new tpl file that describes the hardcode on the left, and a new file to display the webpage in the center. At least, thats how I understand it works.

Can anyone help with this ? In theory, it should be pretty basic stuff. But I'm only part way there understanding it. I can modify or copy, but cant write anything new.

Any help appreciated.

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

I really don't enjoy working on a lot of third party apps because so many of them are written badly and are almost impossible to understand and decipher. I would be happy to look at what you have. I won't guarantee anything though...

munky2

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

If you want free you could use paypal and just code it yourself (simple). Check out my store page, paypal gives you the code for buy and view shopping cart buttons and you can tweak it for each product by changing the price and name:

http://www.fisheadtackle.com/walleye_dvds.html

circleofatlantis · Jun 11, 2007

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

circleofatlantis, Nightrider will be along later to help you but in the mean time maybe I can shed some light on why you aren't' getting email notifications. Do you have "Notify me when a reply is posted" checked? The feature is found under the posting box.

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

circleofatlantis · Jun 11, 2007

I'm not trying for an in page popup.

The example in the zip is how the category's are displayed.

I want to do the same thing, but hardcoded.

So inside the box, is a list of hardcoded names, with a embedded link.

When clicked, it displays the webpage of the link in the center section of the cart just like the category displays products.

The cart is here >>> http://CircleofAtlantis.com/marketplace/home.php . Have a look at how it works.

If you go to the provider list down the left side, mouseover something, then click the show website link, that will show you what I want to happen. I just dont need the mouseover display, just a click name and it does it. (The links I want to do, dont have products associated with them, so the mouseover selection is not needed.)

Let me know if you need more of the code, I included the 4 files that seem relevant.

circleofatlantis · Jun 11, 2007

Upload didnt work. Sad

http://CircleofAtlantis.com/pics/xcart-files.zip

btw, yes I have email notifications turned on. Got 1 this morning though, so something changed.

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

I really don't recognize the language that they are using in these files. Are you planning to hardcode only one category and one subcategory but keep others that are not hardcoded???

dontknow

circleofatlantis · Jun 11, 2007

No, I want to duplicate how the category works and just hardcode that.

So the category box remains the same, but by copying the code, make a new box with hardcoded elements. There will be about 20 of them for starters. All I need is one hardcoded example and I can duplicate the rest.