Mod to Display Catalog

[groone]

I'm not sure how to ask this but I'll give it a shot.

When you first come into max you are presented with some verbage(i know how to change the verbage) and then two lines, one for specials of the month and the other line for new products. I don't want any of that. What I would like is a mod that when entering the catalog and hitting the index_default.tpl.php file the page will display random catalog entries over several lines, kind of like when a person clicks on a category listing where all items in that category is listed.

I hope that is clear enough.

Thanks for all your help thus far!

[red_fraggle]

Removing the "new products" and "specials" is done in /templates/content/index_default.php

Look for

 <td><br><?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_DEFAULT_SPECIALS); ?></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td><br><?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?></td>
          </tr>
<?php
    include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_UPCOMING_PRODUCTS);
?>

and change it to this:

            
           <td><br><?php //include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_DEFAULT_SPECIALS); ?></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td><br><?php //include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?></td>
          </tr>
<?php //
    include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_UPCOMING_PRODUCTS);
?>

Or better yet remove the <td> elements completely


Now to take care of Category Images on the homepage.

Open /includes/application_top.php

On roughly line 460 find this code

  } else {
    $cPath = '';
  }

and change it to this:

} else {
    $cPath = '0';
  }

Now open /templates/content/index_nested.tpl.php

and on roughly line 69 find this code

<tr>
            <td><?php echo tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '100%', '10'); ?></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td><?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?></td>
          </tr>

and change it to this

<tr>
            <td><?php echo tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '100%', '10'); ?></td>
          </tr>
<?php if ($cPath=="0") { ?>
		  <tr>
            <td><br><?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_DEFAULT_SPECIALS); ?></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td><?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?></td>
          </tr>
<?php } ?>

Hope this helps, Don't forget if you need custom PHP work done, we do it, get our contact from sig line

[red_fraggle]

by the way, if you use my code changes to display categories, and also want to remove specials and new products, do so in /templates/content/index_nested.tpl.php as outlined above just add a // beofre the incliude statements as the category on home page code bypasses index_default completely.