Adding a Heading to the Featured Listings

[sporthorsebreeder]

Hello
I want to include a heading for the Featured Listings that show on my home page in the same way that the Browse Categories section has a heading on the home page.
Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Thanks for any help.
Hugh

[Lhotch]

I beleive the featured listings plugin builds its own table, the plugin is in includes/template/plugins and is called function.featured_listings_horizontal.php.

At approx line 98 you have the line that assignst the start table tag and the values passed to the function from the template to the variable called $output and it looks like this.

PHP Code:

$output = "<table " . $table_attr.">\n"; 


I havent tested it, but just under that and before any of the table rows are created you could add another line with your table header info and append it to the current value of $output, so you would have something like this....

PHP Code:

$output = "<table " . $table_attr.">\n";
$output.="<tr><th>Your table title here</th></tr>"; 


You may need to specify colspan in the table header tag as well but that should get you started.

Another, perhaps easier method would be in layout.tpl.php, just above where the function is called. Simply create a new table with your header above the function and get ride of the line break above where the function is currently called. This may give you the desired result, youd have to try it and see.

[sporthorsebreeder]

Hello Lhotch
Thanks for your reply.
I added add another line with the table header info and appended it to the current value of $output and this did the trick. Well almost.
The background of the header does not go all the way across as it does in the Browse Categories section.
Can you tell me how to extend the background of the heading all the way across the table?
Sorry about the basic question but I am new to PHP.
Cheers
Hugh

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by sporthorsebreeder

Hello Lhotch
Thanks for your reply.
I added add another line with the table header info and appended it to the current value of $output and this did the trick. Well almost.
The background of the header does not go all the way across as it does in the Browse Categories section.
Can you tell me how to extend the background of the heading all the way across the table?
Sorry about the basic question but I am new to PHP.
Cheers
Hugh

As I mentioned above, you will likely have to add "colspan=x" behind the opening table header tag.

The number you specify to span should equal how many table data cells you have. So if your table has 3 cells then do this....

$output.="<tr><th colspan="3">Your table title here</th></tr>"; 

[sporthorsebreeder]

Originally Posted by Lhotch

The number you specify to span should equal how many table data cells you have. So if your table has 3 cells then do this....

$output.="<tr><th colspan="3">Your table title here</th></tr>"; 

Hello Larry
I am not sure where to look to find out how many cells the table has. I looked in the function.feature_listings_horizontal.php file and found that the table had 4 cols and 3 rows so I guessed 7. I entered the code
$output.="<tr><th colspan="7">Featured Listings</th></tr>"; in line 99 and I received the following error when I tried to view my home page.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in C:\Websites\tbdiaries\includes\template\plugins\fu nction.feature_listings_horizontal.php on line 99
Any idea where I am going wrong?
Cheers
Hugh

[Eric Barnes]

Hugh,

How about this? Change the function file back to the way it was. Next open the layout.tpl.php file and locate the {function_feature_listings}

Change it to this:

<table class="tborder">
<tr>
<th>Featured Listings</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
{function_feature_listings original code here} 
</td>
</tr>
</table>

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by sporthorsebreeder

Hello Larry
I am not sure where to look to find out how many cells the table has. I looked in the function.feature_listings_horizontal.php file and found that the table had 4 cols and 3 rows so I guessed 7. I entered the code
$output.="<tr><th colspan="7">Featured Listings</th></tr>"; in line 99 and I received the following error when I tried to view my home page.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in C:\Websites\tbdiaries\includes\template\plugins\fu nction.feature_listings_horizontal.php on line 99
Any idea where I am going wrong?
Cheers
Hugh

Erics method will probably be cleaner but in the line above I forgot to escape the double quotes around the number 3, like this..

PHP Code:

$output.="<tr><th colspan=\"3\">Your table title here</th></tr>"; 


[sporthorsebreeder]

My thanks to Larry and Eric
That's it working now
I used Larry's method. It worked fine with escaping the double quotes around the number 7
$output.="<tr><th colspan=\"7\">Featured Listings</th></tr>";
Thanks for all your help.
Cheers Lads
Hugh

[Eric Barnes]

Glad you got it working.

[hppenterprises]

Hey Ya'll -
This worked for me except I found this code in home.tpl.php - not layout.tpl.php

Originally Posted by suzkaw

Hugh,

How about this? Change the function file back to the way it was. Next open the layout.tpl.php file and locate the {function_feature_listings}

Change it to this:

<table class="tborder">
<tr>
<th>Featured Listings</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
{function_feature_listings original code here} 
</td>
</tr>
</table>