Manufacturers Box with List Instead of Drop-Down

[ddecjc]

Has anyone created a manufacturers box that list all the manufacturers just like categories.php does for the categories? I've seen lots of posts of people wanting go the other way and make a drop-down with the categories, but I haven't found any instances of anyone make a box that lists the manufacturers.

Thanks.

[ddecjc]

Very interesting....

As I was digging through the code in manufacturers.php, I found some stuff that looked like exactly what I needed:

if ($number_of_rows <= MAX_DISPLAY_MANUFACTURERS_IN_A_LIST) {
// Display a list

After seeing that, I searched high and low to find out what the default value of MAX_DISPLAY_MANUFACTURERS_IN_A_LIST was, and I found that it is not defined in any of the files. So, I defined it with a value of 50, and, voila, my manufacturers now display as a list instead of a drop-down (since I have less than 50).

After a little bit of code-tweaking a few lines below that, I was able to get the style of the list items to be exactly like those of the category list!

[ddecjc]

What do you know? After all that digging and tweaking I did, I've now found that this feature is included in the admin interface. It is in the Configuration > Maximum Values section.