Manufacturers module MODIFICATION

[joshsherm]

I would like to have a select dropdown box containing a list of manufacturers (like the manufacturer block already has), but instead of the ordinary select box, I want a the manufacturers to have a dropdown meny inside the select box...so users can select a category of products by the manufacturer they hover over.... For a refereance,please view http://www.bidyell.com/ right hand side ("select a category")

Instead of categories I would like to have "browse manufacturers", and upon hovering over a particular manufacturer... it will display in the dropdown the categories they have products in

Please PM or reply if you could make this happen properly in awell built module

[yodapt]

Is this a simple request or a payed module?

[MrBaseball34]

The control you are looking at is a mcDropdown jQuery Plug-in. Check it out here:
http://www.givainc.com/labs/mcdropdown_jquery_plugin.htm
.
It should be no problem getting it setup in your Manufacturers module.

[Aaron Healey]

Hi would anyone be kind enough to fix up an example of how you can do this for the manufactureres List please?


Regards,
Aaron

[MrBaseball34]

Give me some time, I may be able to work it out for you but I'm not guaranteeing anything.

[Aaron Healey]

Ok mate cheers,

just i am new to PrestaShop, and have never used McDropdown before lol

Otherwise i would try and incorporate it but know what codes i need to use etc

Regards,
Aaron

[Aaron Healey]

Sorry to be impatient but any luck

[MrBaseball34]

To be honest, I haven't had the time. I will try to work on it tomorrow evening.

[Aaron Healey]

Ow ok mate no worries cheers

Regards,
Aaron

[Aaron Healey]

sorry to be a pain, MrBaseball but anyluck

Cheers
Aaron

[MrBaseball34]

Sorry, been busy with other things, will try to get to it this weekend, for sure.

[Aaron Healey]

Ok mate cheers, i be waiting for a great response saying Yes i fixed it , ould you also be able to do it so it does it in columns so if i say have 10 in one column then it will move to the next column and have another 10 etc? if thats not to much to ask

Regards,
Aaron

[MrBaseball34]

I'm not sure it can be configured in that manner.

Edit:
Options:
maxRows: 25 //specify the maximum rows in a column

[Aaron Healey]

No worries do it how you can cause any way will be great , also have you used the module menu 2.6.4 ?

[MrBaseball34]

Which module menu you talking about?

[Aaron Healey]

Horiztonal Menu 2.6.4 the one from this Thread:

http://www.prestashop.com/forums/viewthread/58775/P0/third_party_modules/module_menu_horizontal_v2_dot_6_free_

as i got a few issues, and i not sure if host or anything as i have installed the menu from scratch without any modification so many times now but still not working because as options you can change via backend but not changing them

[MrBaseball34]

No I haven't used that one, but, let me ask you this...how many manufacturers do you have?
I ask because we have 381 and it looks terrible. This mcDropDown is really for hierarchical
data, such as Categories->subCategories.

Are you still sure you want to do this because I have it working.

[Aaron Healey]

Hi yes i do what this well at the moment all i have is like 4 or 5 manufacturers

[MrBaseball34]

ok, are you ready for this???

First, download the mcDropdown control from Giva, unzip these files and these files only into the directories mentioned:

/lib/jquery.bgiframe.js       -> /js/jquery directory
/lib/jquery.mcdropdown.min.js -> /js/jquery directory
/css/jquery.mcdropdown.css    -> /css directory
/images/mcdropdown/*          -> /images/mcdropdown directory

Create msdropdown.js file, place in your js folder. This is the contents:

$(document).ready(function (){
 $("#mfg").mcDropdown("#mfgmenu", {"maxRows": "10"});
});

Open header.tpl. add this code:

  <link type="text/css" href="{$content_dir}css/jquery.mcdropdown.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" /> 

on the line after:

{if isset($css_files)}
 {foreach from=$css_files key=css_uri item=media}
   <link href="{$css_uri}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="{$media}" />
 {/foreach}

Note: should be placed before the {/if}

Then, place this code (it removes script tags so fix it when pasting):

< script type="text/javascript" src="{$content_dir}js/jquery/jquery.mcdropdown.min.js"></ script> 
< script type="text/javascript" src="{$content_dir}js/jquery/jquery.bgiframe.js"></ script> 

on the line BEFORE this line:

{if isset($js_files)}

Now, to modify the blockmanufacturers template, open
modules\blockmanufacturer\blockmanufacturer.tpl

Add this code

<input type="text" name="mfg" id="mfg" value="" />

on the line BEFORE this line:

{if $manufacturers}

Modify this line:

>
</pre>
<ul>

to look like this:

>
</pre>
<ul>

Now, you also need to give each LI a rel attribute so change this line:

getmanufacturerLink($manufacturer.id_manufacturer, $manufacturer.link_rewrite)}" title="{l s='More about' mod='blockmanufacturer'} {$manufacturer.name}">{$manufacturer.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}

to look like this:

getmanufacturerLink($manufacturer.id_manufacturer, $manufacturer.link_rewrite)}" title="{l s='More about' mod='blockmanufacturer'} {$manufacturer.name}">{$manufacturer.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}

And the last thing is to add this line(it removes script tags so fix it when pasting):

< script type="text/javascript" src="{$content_dir}js/mcdropdown.js" ></ script>

on the line BEFORE this code:

<!-- /Block manufacturers module -->

[MrBaseball34]

After looking at this, I've decided to not add it to our manufacturers block due to the fact that when you select one of the manufacturers, it performs a search by manuf and then refreshes without the manufacturer being selected in the control.. I might be able to figure that part out someday???

[Aaron Healey]

Yes ok mate i will give it a go now

[Aaron Healey]

Hey i get a "blank page" http://www.more4beauty.co.uk/

[Aaron Healey]

Hey i fixed the white page bit lol was me, i have set the manufacturer to Top but its not displaying? do you have any ideas why

Cheers,
Aaron

[MrBaseball34]

No, make sure you have your paths correct for the files you are including, css, js.

That is one thing that got me.

[MrBaseball34]

Since you have JBX_MENU, I don' t know if you're going to get it to work like I said.
I don't see a Manufacturers module block anywhere in that code.

[Aaron Healey]

Hi its because i disabled the manufacturers block as the styling was not good lol i wanted it like the menu i have on JBX_MENU which i think will be hard work

And this JBX_MENU i got to do it all manually as via the backend of the module it wont change the settings for some reason so i got to change via the css file which is a pain cause cant get it to look how i want

Aaron

[MrBaseball34]

Hi its because i disabled the manufacturers block as the styling was not good lol i wanted it like the menu i have on JBX_MENU

Now, what you originally asked was to add this to the manufacturers block. That is what I did and the code I showed does that. It has nothing to do with the JBX Menu and won't do anything to it.

[Aaron Healey]

I know that lol , if you look at my menu i want to have a background image to the Brands drop down list and then a hover color of the text? how can this be done please i have tried just cant get it right as you can see i have background image there but it has that extra color at bottom of the power tan one which i dont want.

I been trying all day and havent had any luck,

Also i have published the Manufacturers block to the left column so you can see what it looks like

Regards,
Aaron

[MrBaseball34]

I have no idea, I've never seen the JBX menu.
Also, I don't see a mfg block at all.

[Aaron Healey]

Hi mate its cool i fixed the menu manually lol i will use the mcdropdown soon when i have time to customize it.

Aaron