Don’t use the Interspire Shopping Cart? Check it out; it rocks.
The Interspire Shopping Cart is a great tool, but it’s missing some stuff out of the box.
This is how the Panel looks in the 'Adventure' theme.
I am working on a shopping cart for a client, and wanted to incorporate a drop down menu of brand names using a standard <select> form. Sounds easy, right? Well, it’s not included in the Interspire cart.
The Interspire cart has few brand options out of the box:
- The Brands tag cloud – using the
SideBrandTagCloud.htmlPanel - Brands unordered list – using the
SideShopByBrand.htmlorSideShopByBrandFull.htmlPanels
This tutorial will show you how to add a brands drop down menu in 5 steps.
Add a brand drop-down menu in the Interspire Shopping Cart
Follow the steps below and you’ll have it set up in no time.
- Download this file:
Shop by Brands Dropdown for Interspire Shopping Cart - Unzip the file
- Upload the files into their respective folders
- Add
%%Panel.SideShopByBrandDropdown%%to your template - So, now that should be working…no sweat! Any questions?
Note: Post updated with downloadable files instead of embedded code.
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Respects Sir,
its not working for me, i am using interspire cart multi vendor edition.
Best Regards
ok got it working never mind
Not Working 4 me. Can you help me?
it wont work on ISC version 5.it just give the select brands option with no dropdownlist at all!help!
Sorry people, very busy right now and can’t troubleshoot at the moment.
I’ve updated the post with new code that will work better. Please let me know how it works for you.
where do I add %%Panel.SideShopByBrandDropdown%% .. To which file…
In your Design Mode template (right click on the window when in design mode).
I’m almost there… but exactly where do I put it
Paste it wherever you want to have it show up in your design. Once you add it to the template, you will be able to drag-and-drop it in Design Mode.
Got it… Thanks…
What are the “respective folders”?!?
The zip file (now linked properly again) contains folders inside it. The folders correspond to default Interspire folders.
Download this file:
Unzip the file
Where is the file I should download? I couldn’t find it’s link on this page?
Regards
Sorry about that – sometimes my download manager plugin changes permissions without reason. The link is back.
Hi,
It gives a notice as
Notice: Undefined index: BrandId in /home/rateto/public_html/includes/display/SideShopByBrandDropdown.php on line 29.
Kindly check the page.Kindly help,how do i remove this?
@vinay: You should always turn off PHP error notices for production servers; these aren’t necessarily errors, but they are simply notes that something isn’t coded exactly how PHP would like it.
You can replace
$kwd_currentId = $GLOBALS['BrandId'];with:if(isset($GLOBALS['BrandId'])) { $kwd_currentId = $GLOBALS['BrandId']; }, and that will fix the notice.I have updated the download to include this change.
Downloaded link not working!!
Can you tell me?
Please
THANKS
Yes the link is not working and downloading at 0 bytes, can you please check this link as I would like to use this cool Brands feature.
Thanks
Yeps, like ‘Name’ and ‘EAllen’ reported, the download link doesn’t work (a null file is returned). Can you put it back on?
@Name, @Andrós, @EAllen – The download link should now be working. Sorry about the inconvenience.
I’m switching to a new downloads manager plugin for WordPress.
Hi,
Nice plugin, shame Interspire left out such critical elements like this, especially a ‘menu’ dropdown system like accordian.
We have a client with over 3000 products, needless to say you can imagine how large and unworkable the menu currently looks.
We did ask Interspire and all they said (Mitch – CEO) was buy one from a reseller for £250UK!! Disgraceful attitude when you think that a licence is over £1k!!
Any chance you can put one togther for us and I’ll give you a free Premium Listing for three years
Nice work
Sarah