Please: Urgent help needed- Editing sideboxes

[damien2]

Hi,

I'm sorry to sound like such a presumptious ******** but I need help with this, and in a hurry. I've been trying for two weeks to edit the layout of the side boxes (in particular the cart, categories, bestsellers and new items boxes) but haven't been able to get them the way I want.

Does anyone know the code (or how I'd get it) to simply output the contents of the cart, bestsellers and new items without any of the box formatting- i can call this from a php include and design the boxes individually in straight html without havin to generate things like titles.

I've tried to figure it out myself but i've just botched it. Quite a few times!

Any help you can give me would be much appreciated, i have a very important deadline tmrw!!

cheers
d

[lango]

Damien,

The code used to output the infoboxes is found in catalog/includes/boxes/ boxesname.
the actual output for the categories is contained within the $categories_string

Near the bottom of the file categories.php find

$info_box_contents = array();
  $info_box_contents[] = array('align' => 'left',
                               'text'  => $categories_string
                              );
  new infoBox($info_box_contents);

so to hard code in html try this

 
/*$info_box_contents = array();
  $info_box_contents[] = array('align' => 'left',
                               'text'  => $categories_string
                              );
  */new infoBox($info_box_contents);
?>
     <tr>
        <td>
        
            <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" class="infoBoxContents">
              <tr>
                <td align="left" class="boxText"><?php echo $categories_string;?>

 </td>
              </tr>
            </table>
            </td>
            
        </td>
      </tr>
         </td>
          </tr>
<!-- categories_eof //-->

[damien2]

Lango,

Many thanks for your help, it's 22:39 here (in ireland) and I have a four hour drive tmrw to take a client through this on my iBook. Thank god for unix/apache/mysql/php on osx

Looks like i've got a few hours ahead of me at the computer tonight

Thanks again
D

[lango]

Its 22.55 here (WALES)

If theres anytning I can do to help?

PM

Good Luck

[damien2]

Cheers man yer a star but I reckon I'll get through it after that. I'm guessin it's the same for the cart, the new items and the bestsellers?

I've got most of the site runnin on the standard layout, and have the boxes to fit in with a few layouts I've done up. A bit of graft and it'll be grand.