The purpose of this sidebox is to upgrade the basic Zen Cart manufacturer information sidebox to allow it to work not only on the product info page, but also next to manufacturers' product listings, or index listings filtered by manufacturer. The mod is fully compatible with all versions of Zen Cart up from 1.3.0 until the current release (1.3.8a) and is expected to continue to be compatible with all 1.3.x series releases.
This is the initial release.
Firstly unzip the release package. This yields two php scripts and there are two ways to install them.
If you wish the changes to apply to a particular template that you have installed you will need to ensure that the following over-ride directories exist on your server:
where YOUR_TEMPLATE is the name of the directory in which your template files are located.
Drag the new tpl_manufacturers_info_plus.php to the first directory and the manufacturers_info_plus.php file to the second.
If you want the changes to apply to all templates that you have installed, drag the files to the following directories:
Add styles to your stylesheet to manage the layout and appearance of the links. For example, if your template is based on the Classic Template, the follow styles will remove bullet points and align the links to look and behave like the links in other sideboxes (except categories)
#manufacturerinfoplus {text-align:center}
#manufacturerinfoplus ul {margin:0; padding:0; list-style:none}
Go to Admin > Tools > Layout Boxes Controller, select the box and choose the column in which you would like to place it and its sort order to determine how high it will appear in that column.
If you have any problems applying this add-in, please consult its Zen Cart support thread.
This add-in has been brought to you by www.kuroiwebdesign.com.