Interspire Shopping Cart — Add a Brands Drop-Down Menu

August 6, 2009

in Interspire, Tutorial

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.

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.html Panel
  • Brands unordered list – using the SideShopByBrand.html or SideShopByBrandFull.html Panels

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.

  1. Download this file:

      Shop by Brand Dropdown for Interspire Shopping Cart (15.6 KiB, 16 hits)

  2. Unzip the file
  3. Upload the files into their respective folders
  4. Add %%Panel.SideShopByBrandDropdown%% to your template
  5. So, now that should be working…no sweat! Any questions?

Note: Post updated with downloadable files instead of embedded code.

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{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

omar August 18, 2009 at 12:44 am

Respects Sir,
its not working for me, i am using interspire cart multi vendor edition.
Best Regards

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omar August 18, 2009 at 1:01 am

ok got it working never mind

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John September 9, 2009 at 11:58 am

Not Working 4 me. Can you help me?

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isc_user September 13, 2009 at 7:30 am

it wont work on ISC version 5.it just give the select brands option with no dropdownlist at all!help!

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Zack Katz September 18, 2009 at 7:11 pm

Sorry people, very busy right now and can’t troubleshoot at the moment.

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Zack Katz February 26, 2010 at 11:04 pm

I’ve updated the post with new code that will work better. Please let me know how it works for you.

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Steven Curtis March 12, 2010 at 5:41 am

where do I add %%Panel.SideShopByBrandDropdown%% ..  To which file…

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Zack Katz March 12, 2010 at 5:43 am

In your Design Mode template (right click on the window when in design mode).

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Steven Curtis March 13, 2010 at 2:09 am

I’m almost there… but exactly where do I put it

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