Interspire Shopping Cart — Add a Brands Drop-Down Menu

Posted on August 6, 2009

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 Brands Dropdown for Interspire Shopping Cart

  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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  • omar

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

  • omar

    ok got it working never mind

  • John

    Not Working 4 me. Can you help me?

  • isc_user

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

    • http://www.seodenver.com Zack Katz

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

      • Cruse

        Thanks very much

  • http://www.katzwebservices.com Zack Katz

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

  • Steven Curtis

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

    • http://www.katzwebservices.com Zack Katz

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

  • Steven Curtis

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

    • http://www.katzwebservices.com Zack Katz

      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.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tomas-Bartak/100000662280215 Tomas Bartak

        Hello Zack, thanks you so much. I have drop and down menu, but there is no brand. Clear list. Please let us know how to fix it

  • Steven Curtis

    Got it… Thanks…

  • Joshua Russell

    What are the “respective folders”?!?
     

    • http://www.katzwebservices.com Zack Katz

      The zip file (now linked properly again) contains folders inside it. The folders correspond to default Interspire folders.

  • Umit

    Download this file:
    Unzip the file

    Where is the file I should download? I couldn’t find it’s  link on this page?
    Regards
     

    • http://www.katzwebservices.com Zack Katz

      Sorry about that – sometimes my download manager plugin changes permissions without reason. The link is back.

  • http://ratetorate.in/index.php vinay

    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?

     

    • http://www.katzwebservices.com Zack Katz

      @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.

  • Name

    Downloaded link not working!!
    Can you tell me?
    Please

    THANKS

  • EAllen

    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

  • Andrós

    Yeps, like ‘Name’ and ‘EAllen’ reported, the download link doesn’t work (a null file is returned). Can you put it back on?

  • http://www.katzwebservices.com Zack Katz

    @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.

  • http://www.PrimeSiteUK.com PrimeSiteUK.com

    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

  • http://[email protected] Abdul Rehman Sindhu

    How can i reduce the width of drop down menu, please advice.

    • http://www.katzwebservices.com Zack Katz

      @Abdul Rehman Sindhu: You would use CSS to limit the width. #sidebar select { width:80%; display:block; } or something similar.

  • Dave

    Yes it would be great if you could code a drop down menu like this interspire site: baseballplusstore.com

    • http://www.katzwebservices.com Zack Katz

      @Dave: Both the Categories and Brands menus are <ul> lists, styled with CSS. The Categories has some javascript as well. I used the jQuery Treeview plugin with good success on the MakeUpMania.com website.

  • Ryan

    Hi, thank you for this feature. Can you please tell me where the SideShopByBrandDropdown.php is to be uploaded to? I am unable to find any “includes” dir.

  • Pok

    hi great script it works! does anyone know how to apply this to the category list? thanks

  • Shahnaz
  • Laly_ursan

    It works, thank you!

  • Laly_ursan

    It works, thank you!

  • Laly_ursan

    It works, thank you!

  • Laly_ursan

    It works, thank you!

  • Laly_ursan

    It works, thank you!

  • http://www.bedesignful.com Ryan Butz

    Does anyone know how to change this to categories > Child category > Grand Child Category?  Like this: http://www.precisionroller.com/

  • zeefa

    hi…i understand ur tutorial unfortunately i dont know my server, so i dont where is my folder.. how to solve this problem because just given the access to login admin panel

  • Roy

    Work it also for Interspire 6.1? De brandlist items are hidden. Check for more Interspire templates and modules this site: http://shoppingcart.mashmedia.nl/