WOW!! With only 2 months of OSC experience under my belt I present to you my FIRST contribution! WHOOT WHOOT! I believe every contrib started out something like this:

I was looking for something so I posted a thread in the forum. I got some replies and was pointed to addons.oscommerce.com. I searched, and searched and searched yet counldn't find anything. Then I searched online for what I was looking for, found it, and decieded to cram it into my box. 2 - 6 hours later I've created my first contribution and am overflowing with joy. Yeah. thats my story.

I was looking for a scroller that would both look good, AND have the capability to link to different categories/products. So here it is, the translucent, linkable scroller. tada!

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. After unzipping the translucent_scroller.zip, open translucent_scroller.js in your fave editor and have the images that you want to scroll prepared.

2. Edit the following to suit your tastes:

var trans_height: changes the height of the scroller
var pause: set pause between slides
var degree: determines the speed, the higher the number, the faster the speed

slideshowcontent[2]=["bann3.jpg", "product_info.php?products_id=78", "_parent"]
Here’s where the fun comes in. The first set of “” determines the image to be scrolled. This is where you would put the path to the image from /catalog, or where you saved the translucent_scroller.js file. I saved it directly in the root directory.

Example: I saved my .js file at root, but uploaded my images to the default images folder called "images". To link to an image in the images folder i would put images/banner.jpg inside the quotes.

The second set of “” determines where the image will link up to when clicked

Example: By entering "http://mydomain.com/specials.php" this particular image would take me to the specials page. You can also link to specific products and categories as well.

The last set of “” determines whether the link will open up in a new window (_new), or in the current win window (_parent)

5. Download and open up the file where your want the scroller to appear. I have only used it in my header, so I opened includes/header.php, but this script can also work in any of the infoboxes of osc i guess.

6. Copy and paste the contents of translucent_scroller.js in the place where you want it to appear in your infobox/header etc.

7. Save and upload the newly edited box/header file back into your store.

8. Check out your site ;)

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