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[swansonwc Friend swansonwcJoin date: March 2009Posts: 19Downloads:0Uploads:10 Thanks: 5]

#139256

Hi,

I’m new to Joomla and Virtuemart and I am working with the Virtuemart installation that comes with the Zeolite template:
Joomla! 1.5.9 Production/Stable [ Vatani ] 9-January-2009 23:00 GMT
Your VirtueMart version: VirtueMart 1.1.2 stable
31/07/2008 20:00 GMT

I’m still working on my local machine, running the XAMPP server.

When I look at the product details page I’m not seeing a link to the manufacturer (I am still using the sample dataset). Is there an option I can change in the Virtuemart or Joomla admin console to display the manufacturer link? Or is there a configuration file that I need to change (the flypage that comes with Zeolite?). I’ve searched through the VM and JA forums, but I’m not yet familiar enough with the way Joomla and VM are set up to know which direction to go.

Thank you for any help.

Best regards,
Bill

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#296462

<em>@swansonwc 118372 wrote:</em><blockquote> (the flypage that comes with Zeolite</blockquote>

[PHP]<?php if( $this->get_cfg(‘showManufacturerLink’)) { ?>
<?php echo $manufacturer_link ?>[/PHP]

[swansonwc Friend swansonwcJoin date: March 2009Posts: 19Downloads:0Uploads:10 Thanks: 5]

#296470

wooohan,

Thank you for getting back to me. I have found the code in the flypage.tpl.php page under:
components/com_virtuemart/themes/ja-zeolite/templates/product_details

The code is the same with the exception that it is in the middle of a table. Should the code you included work to show the manufacturer link? The manufacturer for all products is currently ‘manufacturer’, with a web address of http://www.a-url.com.

Best regards,
Bill

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#296492

Thanks for adressing me wooohan, first one who does so, I always had to read varieties of the unknown kind, lol!;)

Depending on how the flypage was customized, it looks somehow like this:

[PHP]<tr>
<?php if( $this->get_cfg(‘showManufacturerLink’)) { ?>
<td rowspan=”1″ colspan=”2″><br/><?php echo $manufacturer_link ?></td>
<?php } ?>
</tr>[/PHP]

When you only have one manufacturer, only one will be shown, but normally, regardless how many you have, there should always be the name of the manufacturer linked to a pop up that displays the information available, like homepage, name, email etc..

Is that not so on your site?

[swansonwc Friend swansonwcJoin date: March 2009Posts: 19Downloads:0Uploads:10 Thanks: 5]

#296518

wooohan,

That’s exactly what it looks like. I haven’t really done any customizations yet. I just installed Joomla/Virtuemart/Ja_Zeolite (with zero customizations) on a webhost, and it is working the same way.

Best regards,
Bill

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#296526

So, everything works out fine now with the codes above? If so, great!;)

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#296528

woohan,

That’s what’s weird. We’ve got the same code, but it doesn’t work.

Best regards,
Bill

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#296677

You have to activate this function in the VM Admin in addition.

Go to VM Admin (Normal Layout) —> Configuration —> Site or Page (The third tab from left) —> The upper right cell Layout —> Click in the blue link Configuration below the drop down for the theme selector —> On the page that opens you have to mark “Show manufacturer link?” with yes.

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#296685

woohan,

Perfect! That did it.

Thank you so much for your help.

Best regards,
Bill

[dgosijek Friend dgosijekJoin date: June 2008Posts: 45Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 8]

#297122

I have one question. So, if I copy paste this part of code in my flypage i will have option in product details to choose manufacturer link (that I was created before in “manufacturers” administration of VM)?

And then this liknnk will be showed in my product description?

Thx for answer

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#297167

dgosijek,

If I understand your question correctly, you are looking at coping and pasting the code in the earlier posts. Actually, the what ended up working was this information from woohan:

<blockquote>You have to activate this function in the VM Admin in addition.

Go to VM Admin (Normal Layout) —> Configuration —> Site or Page (The third tab from left) —> The upper right cell Layout —> Click in the blue link Configuration below the drop down for the theme selector —> On the page that opens you have to mark “Show manufacturer link?” with yes.</blockquote>

The answer was the setting change and not making a change to the flypage code. Once I made the setting change the manufacturer link showed up immediately in the product detail page.

Best regards,
Bill

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#297175

Right, it also always depends on if the designer of the templates or VM themes included the codes I posted earlier into their flypages. Some may think it is not useful to have this link, while most have this link present as users can always decide if to turn it on or not. But I would say 99% of the themes you get in template clubs will have the code present by default. Some just move it to a tab or somewhere else on the page as like it is here.

Basically, you can move the codes anywhere you like on the flypage, so you can also include it somewhere else, like at the bottom of the page or in a tab etc..

And like mentioned, you always have to turn on the function in the admin to let this link show up in your shop frontend.

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#297199

Yes, I just need to show manufacturer in detailed information view in frontpage…in product description…

But in administration i need to choose one of manufacturers when I creating new product…

That is what I wish to say 🙂

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#299738

And there is no answer 🙂

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#300725

Can we see the finished result of this code fix ?? 🙂

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