Help with displaying 1 product per row from categories

[mad_dexter]

I have thousands of products in the catalog that do not require images, just text.

I need to display these in the main page (when selected from the categories site map on the left nav menu) in the same way as a search result output: ie a table with 1 product per row, with all information and add-to-cart spread out along the row, left justified.

I do realise that products can be displayed as 1 row per column but the price, code, pack size and add-to-cart are stacked up and center justified. Not ideal for our product range.

Any help gratefully received. Dex

[michael_s]

Switch in the admin:
Product Display Type (Default = 0 or Columns = 1)

set to 0

[mad_dexter]

Thanks Michael, but I need each product description, code, price, size and buy button on one line like a table, not each product taking up 5 separate lines. Any ideas where to change this?

[michael_s]

If you do what I describe in my first reply, products will display all on a single row. See the screenshot.

[mad_dexter]

No joy. This is so frustrating as I see you have displayed the format I require.

Our main.php template has been customised so I renamed it main.php.orig it to ensure the fallback main.php was used.

Then, setting Number Of Colums For Product Listing to 1 and Product Display Type via Admin>Configuration>Product Listing to 0 or 1 has no effect. Products are still displayed in a single row with all detail stacked up.

Configuration>Cache is set to False and I cleared the Firefox cache between changes.

If the developer had changed the template to over ride the row setting, which file would I need to edit? Thanks, Dex.

[michael_s]

Most likely you removed the conditional code that checks the constant value for the product listing display type in your templates. It is not in main_page.tpl.php, but in index_products.tpl.php. The code you need is:

 <?php if (PRODUCT_LIST_TYPE == 0) {

        include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_PRODUCT_LISTING);
       } else {

        include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_PRODUCT_LISTING_COL);
      }
        ?>